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We propose a construction for joint feature learning and clustering of multichannel extracellular electrophysiological data across multiple recording periods for action potential detection and discrimination ("spike sorting"). Our…

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Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-27 Nathan J. Szymanski , Christopher J. Bartel , Yan Zeng , Qingsong Tu , Gerbrand Ceder

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) has become a workhorse for signal and data analytics, triggered by its model parsimony and interpretability. Perhaps a bit surprisingly, the understanding to its model identifiability---the major…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-27 Xiao Fu , Kejun Huang , Nicholas D. Sidiropoulos , Wing-Kin Ma

Supervised matrix factorization (SMF) is a classical machine learning method that simultaneously seeks feature extraction and classification tasks, which are not necessarily a priori aligned objectives. Our goal is to use SMF to learn…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-21 Joowon Lee , Hanbaek Lyu , Weixin Yao

Addressing the interpretability problem of NMF on Boolean data, Boolean Matrix Factorization (BMF) uses Boolean algebra to decompose the input into low-rank Boolean factor matrices. These matrices are highly interpretable and very useful in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Sebastian Dalleiger , Jilles Vreeken

The effectiveness of machine learning in metallographic microstructure segmentation is often constrained by the lack of human-annotated phase masks, particularly for rare or compositionally complex morphologies within the metal alloy. We…

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We present X-AutoMap, a modular framework for autonomous X-ray fluorescence (XRF) mapping that enables chemically informed targeting of regions of interest through a correlative feature detection strategy. The system integrates classical…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-11-14 Carlos Deleon , Dmitri Gavrilov , Peggy ODay , Ajith Pattammattel

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) has been widely used to learn low-dimensional representations of data. However, NMF pays the same attention to all attributes of a data point, which inevitably leads to inaccurate representation. For…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Jiao Wei , Can Tong , Bingxue Wu , Qiang He , Shouliang Qi , Yudong Yao , Yueyang Teng

This paper presents Neural Mesh Fusion (NMF), an efficient approach for joint optimization of polygon mesh from multi-view image observations and unsupervised 3D planar-surface parsing of the scene. In contrast to implicit neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Farhad G. Zanjani , Hong Cai , Yinhao Zhu , Leyla Mirvakhabova , Fatih Porikli

Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) has become a popular method for representing meaningful data by extracting a non-negative basis feature from an observed non-negative data matrix. Some of the unique features of this method in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-15 Sajad Fathi Hafshejani , Zahra Moaberfard

In this paper we consider the Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF) problem: given an (elementwise) nonnegative matrix $V \in \R_+^{m\times n}$ find, for assigned $k$, nonnegative matrices $W\in\R_+^{m\times k}$ and $H\in\R_+^{k\times n}$…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Lorenzo Finesso , Peter Spreij

Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) is a powerful technique for analyzing regularly-sampled data, i.e., data that can be stored in a matrix. For audio, this has led to numerous applications using time-frequency (TF) representations like…

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We introduce Noisy Feature Mixup (NFM), an inexpensive yet effective method for data augmentation that combines the best of interpolation based training and noise injection schemes. Rather than training with convex combinations of pairs of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Soon Hoe Lim , N. Benjamin Erichson , Francisco Utrera , Winnie Xu , Michael W. Mahoney

Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) asks to decompose a (entry-wise) non-negative matrix into the product of two smaller-sized nonnegative matrices, which has been shown intractable in general. In order to overcome this issue, the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-15 Zhihuai Chen , Yinan Li , Xiaoming Sun , Pei Yuan , Jialin Zhang

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) has become a ubiquitous tool for data analysis. An important variant is the sparse NMF problem which arises when we explicitly require the learnt features to be sparse. A natural measure of sparsity is…

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In an effort to develop topic modeling methods that can be quickly applied to large data sets, we revisit the problem of maximum-likelihood estimation in topic models. It is known, at least informally, that maximum-likelihood estimation in…

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In the process of reproducing the state dynamics of parameter dependent distributed systems, data from physical measurements can be incorporated into the mathematical model to reduce the parameter uncertainty and, consequently, improve the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-06 Francesco A. B. Silva , Cecilia Pagliantini , Martin Grepl , Karen Veroy

Source apportionment analysis, which aims to quantify the attribution of observed concentrations of multiple air pollutants to specific sources, can be formulated as a non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) problem. However, NMF is…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Bora Jin , Abhirup Datta

Data-driven methods (DDMs), such as deep neural networks, offer a generic approach to integrated data analysis (IDA), integrated diagnostic-to-control (IDC) workflows through data fusion (DF), which includes multi-instrument data fusion…