Efficient and Non-Convex Coordinate Descent for Symmetric Nonnegative Matrix Factorization

Autor: Inderjit S. Dhillon, Qi Lei, Kai Zhong, Nicolas Gillis, Arnaud Vandaele
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. 64:5571-5584
ISSN: 1941-0476
1053-587X
DOI: 10.1109/tsp.2016.2591510
Popis: Given a symmetric nonnegative matrix $A$ , symmetric nonnegative matrix factorization (symNMF) is the problem of finding a nonnegative matrix $H$ , usually with much fewer columns than $A$ , such that $A \approx HH^T$ . SymNMF can be used for data analysis and in particular for various clustering tasks. Unlike standard NMF, which is traditionally solved by a series of quadratic (convex) subproblems, we propose to solve symNMF by directly solving the nonconvex problem, namely, minimize $\Vert A-HH^T\Vert ^2$ , which is a fourth-order nonconvex problem. In this paper, we propose simple and very efficient coordinate descent schemes, which solve a series of fourth-order univariate subproblems exactly. We also derive convergence guarantees for our methods and show that they perform favorably compared to recent state-of-the-art methods on synthetic and real-world datasets, especially on large and sparse input matrices.
Databáze: OpenAIRE