Matrix-wise $$\ell _0$$-constrained sparse nonnegative least squares

Autor: Nicolas Nadisic, Jeremy E. Cohen, Arnaud Vandaele, Nicolas Gillis
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Machine Learning. 111:4453-4495
ISSN: 1573-0565
0885-6125
DOI: 10.1007/s10994-022-06260-2
Popis: Nonnegative least squares problems with multiple right-hand sides (MNNLS) arise in models that rely on additive linear combinations. In particular, they are at the core of most nonnegative matrix factorization algorithms and have many applications. The nonnegativity constraint is known to naturally favor sparsity, that is, solutions with few non-zero entries. However, it is often useful to further enhance this sparsity, as it improves the interpretability of the results and helps reducing noise, which leads to the sparse MNNLS problem. In this paper, as opposed to most previous works that enforce sparsity column- or row-wise, we first introduce a novel formulation for sparse MNNLS, with a matrix-wise sparsity constraint. Then, we present a two-step algorithm to tackle this problem. The first step divides sparse MNNLS in subproblems, one per column of the original problem. It then uses different algorithms to produce, either exactly or approximately, a Pareto front for each subproblem, that is, to produce a set of solutions representing different tradeoffs between reconstruction error and sparsity. The second step selects solutions among these Pareto fronts in order to build a sparsity-constrained matrix that minimizes the reconstruction error. We perform experiments on facial and hyperspectral images, and we show that our proposed two-step approach provides more accurate results than state-of-the-art sparse coding heuristics applied both column-wise and globally.
Comment: 25 pages + 18 pages supplementary material. This is the new version of a work originally called "A Homotopy-based Algorithm for Sparse Multiple Right-hand Sides Nonnegative Least Squares". Although the central concept is the same, the paper has been almost completely rewritten
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