Questions tagged [non-negative-matrix-factorization]
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Will PCA always fit a model at least as well as NMF?
If I perform PCA/NMF on a dataset, and then use the reduced models to reconstruct the original dataset, it seems to me that PCA should typically outperform NMF, simply due to the fact that NMF has the ...
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Matrix Values to Probabilities with Logistic Regression
I have a Non Negative Matrix Factorization algorithm and I'm calculating the A-hat matrix from it.
Rows of the matrix are customers, columns are my products and values are the occurrences of product ...
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Non-negative matrix factorization clusters
NMF can be used for clustering i.e., $V=WH$ where $W$ represents cluster centers and $H$ represents the membership of samples. But can NMF alone cluster the samples? Can we get better clusters in NMF ...
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Values overshooting for sparse matrix factorization (recommendation system)
Using this article as reference for ease of replicability, I noticed that when expanding the pivot matrix R with many missing values, the final recommendation matrix tends to have values overshooting ...
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Is Nonnegative matrix factorization a clustering method or a dimensionality reduction method?
In the matrix factorization we have the problem of decomposing a nonnegative matrix $X$ into two lower-rank matrices $W$ and $H$. I would like to know whether this method is considered as a dimension ...
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Why does Non-Negative Matrix Factorization reconstructs exactly the same matrix?
I'm trying recently to get into recommender systems and almost all tutorials I find mention collaborative filtering done with matrix factorization. I found this tutorial that describes how to build ...
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can we use a hybrid optimization schem for NMF
The NMF problem of the form
$$X \simeq WH$$
is a constrained biconvex optimization problem, and is often solved by alternating updates schemes. For example, the multiplicative update rules use ...
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What is The Main Difference between PCA and NMF and why to choose one rather than the other?
I have to develop some analyses to study cancer data. I want to use NMF and PCA. Basically these tools choose the best factorization rank and the number of components that is meaningful to your ...
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How to choose the best model for Non Negative Matrix Factorization?
I am applying NMF with NMF R package. In the early stages, I'm comparing three algorithms (Lee, Brunet,nsNMF) visualizing how fast they converge and how much they reduce residues as in the image down ...
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Why does NMF of a symmetric matrix yield orthogonal matrices which are not transpose identical?
Consider the non-negative factorization of a positive, real symmetric matrix A. Non-negative factorization of this matrix yields ...
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Am I interpreting correctly this NMF analysis?
I have to analyse a set of biological data and I am applying a Non-Negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) Approach. Given a 366 x 144 dataset, I am reasoning about overfitting and the correct rank r to ...
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What is the difference between Non-Negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) and Factor Analysis (FA)?
I am performing an Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) for a multivariate dataset, where variables are all measurements of the same physical measure, only in different locations in space.
My purpose is ...
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Negative Latent Factors in Factorization Machines
I'm studing a specific implementation of a recommendation system leveraging on a factorization machine algorithm. For each person_id and item_id combination, I have an implicit rating of 1 or 0 ...
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Is there a version of NMF that normalizes the sum of scores of each sample?
I want to decompose a nonnegative data matrix $A \in \mathbb{R}^{n\times m}$ into nonnegative basis vectors $U \in \mathbb{R}^{n \times k}$ and a score matrix $V \in \mathbb{R}^{m \times k}$ such that ...
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How to approximate a Hermitian matrix with a transposed cross product of a single matrix?
I have a complex square matrix, and wish to learn latent factors (equally weighted latent factors, so not SVD) from this matrix.
Given a Hermitian matrix A of ...
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What are the limitations of non-negative matrix factorisation when reducing the dimensions of a data set?
From what I understand NFM (non-negative matrix factorisation) is constrained by the factor that it only supports data sets with non-negative values when reducing the dimensions of a data set. ...
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Enforcing constraints on weight matrices using ReLU activation
In the paper 'A Deep Non-Negative Matrix Factorization Neural Network' by Flunner and Hunter, proof of Theorem 1 says that "The ReLu Activation function is a standard approximation of a non-negative ...
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Can NMF assign probabilities to the topics it outputs?
It's my understanding that only LDA can assign probabilities to words within each topic that it discovers since it's a probabilistic graphical model
politicians 0.05 united states 0.10 obama 0.20 ...
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Deriving Multiplicative Update Rules for Regularized NMF
After reading the following CrossValidated post, I cannot derived the correct multiplicative rules for regularized NMF from this paper. They obtain the coefficients $|I_u|$ and $|U_i|$ in the ...
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Implementation of Proximal alternating linearized minimization
The updates of the gradients are somehow wrong.
I have implemented the below given algorithm. I have done something wrong
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Factorized matrix for recommendations, what then?
I have a dataset that looks like this:
Image taken from this blog
Let's assume that I have applied Matrix factorization and have learned the zero values for the items missing for every user.
I now ...
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Using complex number in non-negative matrix factorization (NMF)
In short, I wonder which kind of data can use complex number for NMF. And could an imaginary part possibly be a vector?
For detail, as I saw some papers used complex number in NMF (1), I think it ...
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Normalizing sparse matrix by mean, should the mean be calculated excluding zero?
I have very sparse matrix (70% sparsity) which I want to normalize by mean. I tried using mean both include and exclude zero. The histogram between count (y-axis) and value (x-axis) shows
The value ...
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Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) on mixed data using 1-hot encoding
From a standpoint of interpretation, can I use NMF on one-hot encoded categorical data for dimension reduction? I have mixed data and was thinking about one-hot encoding the categorical features and ...
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Can I use word2vec vectors as input features to NMF or LDA?
I'm trying to do some topic modelling on my corpus and I want to use Word2Vec vectors as an input to my NMF and LDA models. How do I do this? Is it even possible?
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nmf in scipy returns components with all zero weights
I'm trying to understand whether this behavior is a bug or a feature.
Essentially, I have a dataset of ten thousand short pieces of text. I have used the CountVectorizer function to turn this into a ...
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Obtaining hard, overlapping clusters using non-negative matrix factorization
From my understanding non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) provides a natural way to obtain soft clusters from a non-negative $n$x$m$ data matrix $X$. NMF decomposes $X$ into two non-negative ...
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matrix factorization with non-negative constraint only on one of the factors
I have a 2D spectral data time series with a wavelength dimension and a time dimension, and I'd like to decompose it to the time evolution ($SV^T$ for SVD and $H$ for NNMF) of several spectral ...
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Distributed PCA or an equivalent
We normally have fairly large datasets to model on, just to give you an idea:
over 1M features (sparse, average population of features is around 12%);
over 60M rows.
A lot of modeling algorithms ...
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Pattern of out-of-sample reconstruction error in NMF cross-validation: why is it monotonically decreasing? [duplicate]
I am using nonnegative matrix factorization, NMF (in its variant OPNMF, which is subject to additional orthogonality and $H = W^TV$ constraints) to factorize a dataset.
To find the optimal number of ...
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Nonnegative Matrix Factorization as Maximum Likelihood
Elements of Statistical Learning has this on such NMF loss function (section 14.6 Non-negative Matrix Factorization):
The matrices $\mathbf{W}$ and $\mathbf{H}$ are found by maximizing $$ L(\mathbf{...
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Deriving Multiplicative Update Rules for NMF
How to derive the multiplicative update rules for the non-negative matrix factorization problem given by Lee and Seung.
Minimize $\left \| V - WH \right \|^2$ with respect to $W$ and $H$, subject ...
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Why do increasing regularization weights make objective function not monotonically decrease?
I run modified non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) and tune the regularization weight from 1e5 to 1e13.
The table below ...
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The reason why NMF has become so popular [duplicate]
Why do we use Non-negative matrix factorization?What is the advantage and superiority of other matrix decomposition methods?
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What can be the reasons that L1-regularized NMF gets worse result than standard NMF in sparse matrix computation?
I apply L1-norm as a group sparsity constraint [1,2] into non-negative matrix factorization $V \approx WH$ for source separation.
Objective functions:
Standard NMF (Kullback-Leibler divergence):
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How does LDA (Latent Dirichlet Allocation) assign a topic-distribution to a new document?
I am new to topic modeling and read about LDA and NMF (Non-negative Matrix Factorization). I understand the training process work. Let's say I have 100 documents and I want to train an LDA for these ...
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Why does NMF perform better than LDA on shorter textual inputs
For the reading that I have done, I found that Dirichlet priors typically don't perform well when they aren't given significant amounts of data.
I'm not quite sure why that is. What is it about NMF ...
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Geometric Interpretation of Non Negative Matrix Factorization
I'm trying to learn about the geometric interpretation of NMF. I have found the paper by Slim Essid to be very useful. I would like to make a plot like the one in Figure 1 just for a k=2 Topics (i.e. ...
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Derive a constant in Kullback-Liebler divergence proof
From Kullback-Liebler divergence of matrix factorization;
\begin{equation*} \mathrm{X}\approx\mathbf{WH} \tag{1} \end{equation*}
How equation $(2)$ is derived to constant equality in equation $(3)$?
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Non negative matrix factorization initial values and final values
I am planning to use initial values that are {0, 1}. How do we ensure or how does NMF ensure that the final values are also in the [0,1] range.
What if we want to model a matrix of frequencies of ...
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Deep Learning Variation of NNMF
I'm aware that there are different variations of non negative matrix factorization based on the optimization function and I have read about graph regularized NMF. Is there any method to use deep ...
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What conclusions I can draw from matrix result after non-negative matrix factorization?
I was introduced to NMF for data analysis. I implemented some code and obtained the result of basis matrix $W$ and feature matrix $H$.
From $V$ ~ $WH$, my $V$ dimension is 5100*1201. I inputted $W$ ...
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what is the likelihood of a levy process?
While interpreting NMF in Statistical perspective, we assume a Poisson process and to solve for the factors the using EM algorithm, the likelihood of a Poisson process is assumed to be Multinomial, I ...
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Calculate Frobenius Norm using Non-Negative Matrix Factorization
After performing Non-Negative Matrix Factorization (using R's rnmf() function), I'm left with W, H, and the fitted matrix (W%*%H).
The Frobenius norm (squared ...
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Nonnegative Matrix Factorization - Interpreting clustering indicator matrix
In non-negative matrix factorization (NMF), the problem is to minimize $A - WH$. Dimensions are $A$ (m x n), $W$ (m, k) and $H$ (k, n). The matrix $H$ reveals soft clustering assignments of $n$ items ...
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Explanation of the decomposition in the Non Negative Matrix Factorization
I perform matrix factorizaition in my data using the sklearn implementation of Non Negative Matrix Factorization. In the evaluation process I am removing some values from my initial dataset and I am ...
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How to determine mixture coefficient nonparametrically?
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Given a sample $X_m$ from each of $M$ distributions $f_m$ which are all mixtures of the same $C$ unknown distributions $g_c$ but with differing mixture coefficients $\alpha_{mc}$, (when and) ...
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Non Negative Matrix Factorization and Projection onto other Data
Is there an equivalent in NMF to PCA projection? For example lets say you have 2 datasets of data which are generated by a highly similar process, one which is noisy (dataset 2) and one which is not (...
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Why is non-negativity important for collaborative filtering/recommender systems?
In all modern recommender systems that I have seen that rely on matrix factorization, a non-negative matrix factorization is performed on the user-movie matrix. I can understand why non-negativity is ...
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Why do we need the regularization term for NMF but not for SVD?
In non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) one minimizes the Frobenius norm plus a regularization term. However SVD simply minimizes the Frobenius norm. Why do we need the regularization term for NMF ...
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