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In this work we perform some mathematical analysis on non-negative matrix factorizations (NMF) and apply NMF to some imaging and inverse problems. We will propose a sparse low-rank approximation of big positive data and images in terms of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-24 Yat Tin Chow , Kazufumi Ito , Jun Zou

The importance of unsupervised clustering and topic modeling is well recognized with ever-increasing volumes of text data. In this paper, we propose a fast method for hierarchical clustering and topic modeling called HierNMF2. Our method is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-10-05 Da Kuang , Barry Drake , Haesun Park

Bayesian model-based clustering is a widely applied procedure for discovering groups of related observations in a dataset. These approaches use Bayesian mixture models, estimated with MCMC, which provide posterior samples of the model…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-09-24 Ketong Wang , Michael D. Porter

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is a powerful class of feature extraction techniques that has been successfully applied in many fields, namely in signal and image processing. Current NMF techniques have been limited to a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-01-26 Paul Honeine , Fei Zhu

Mixture models are among the most popular tools for clustering. However, when the dimension and the number of clusters is large, the estimation of the clusters become challenging, as well as their interpretation. Restriction on the…

Applications · Statistics 2021-05-11 Léna Carel , Pierre Alquier

Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF) has been continuously evolving in several areas like pattern recognition and information retrieval methods. It factorizes a matrix into a product of 2 low-rank non-negative matrices that will define…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-04-04 Jing-Yan Wang , Mustafa AbdulJabbar

We present here an original application of the non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) method, for the case of extra-financial data. These data are subject to high correlations between co-variables, as well as between observations. NMF…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2022-06-10 P Fogel , C Geissler , P Cotte , G Luta

In this paper we explore avenues for improving the reliability of dimensionality reduction methods such as Non-Negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) as interpretive exploratory data analysis tools. We first explore the difficulties of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-04-22 Nikolaos Vasiloglou , Alexander G. Gray , David V. Anderson

Unsupervised machine learning methods are used to identify structural changes using the melting point transition in classical molecular dynamics simulations as an example application of the approach. Dimensionality reduction and clustering…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-12-06 Nicholas Walker , Ka-Ming Tam , Brian Novak , M. Jarrell

Four-dimensional scanning transmission electron microscopy (4D-STEM) provides rich, atomic-scale insights into materials structures. However, extracting specific physical properties - such as polarization directions essential for…

We conduct a systematic robustness analysis of the unsupervised machine learning module within the hybrid framework \texttt{USmorph}. This module automatically discovers morphological structures from large-scale galaxy images, forming the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-21 Guanwen Fang , Xiaolei Yin , Yirui Zheng , Zesen Lin , Shiwei Zhu , Jie Song , Chichun Zhou , Xu Kong

The clustering of unlabeled raw images is a daunting task, which has recently been approached with some success by deep learning methods. Here we propose an unsupervised clustering framework, which learns a deep neural network in an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Guy Shiran , Daphna Weinshall

Understanding the association between dietary patterns and health outcomes, such as the cancer risk, is crucial to inform public health guidelines and shaping future dietary interventions. However, dietary intake data present several…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-10 Blake Hansen , Dafne Zorzetto , Valeria Edefonti , Roberta De Vito

Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) is a recently developed technique for finding parts-based, linear representations of non-negative data. Although it has successfully been applied in several applications, it does not always result in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Patrik O. Hoyer

The model described in this paper belongs to the family of non-negative matrix factorization methods designed for data representation and dimension reduction. In addition to preserving the data positivity property, it aims also to preserve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Rachid Hedjam , Abdelhamid Abdesselam , Abderrahmane Rahiche , Mohamed Cheriet

Cancer, with its inherent heterogeneity, is commonly categorized into distinct subtypes based on unique traits, cellular origins, and molecular markers specific to each type. However, current studies primarily rely on complete multi-omics…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Yingxuan Ren , Fengtao Ren , Bo Yang

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is a widely used tool for learning parts-based, low-dimensional representations of nonnegative data, with applications in vision, text, and bioinformatics. In clustering applications, orthogonal NMF…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Manh Nguyen , Daniel Pimentel-Alarcón

Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF) is a widely applied technique in the fields of machine learning and data mining. Graph Regularized Non-negative Matrix Factorization (GNMF) is an extension of NMF that incorporates graph regularization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Zhen Wang , Wenwen Min

Predicting the strategy (sequence of concepts) that a student is likely to use in problem-solving helps Adaptive Instructional Systems (AISs) better adapt themselves to different types of learners based on their learning abilities. This can…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Anup Shakya , Vasile Rus , Deepak Venugopal

Non-negative Matrix Factorization(NMF) algorithm can only be used to find low rank approximation of original non-negative data while Concept Factorization(CF) algorithm extends matrix factorization to single non-linear kernel space,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Fei Li , Liang Du , Chaohong Ren