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most citedCoordinate Descent Methods for Symmetric Nonnegative Matrix Factorization

54 citations · 128 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

math.NA2026

The ReLU Matrix Decomposition: NP-Hardness, Ill-Posedness, and ReLU-Rank

Giovanni Seraghiti, Arnaud Vandaele, Nicolas Gillis

The ReLU Matrix Decomposition (RMD) approximates a sparse, nonnegative m-by-n matrix X by max(0, WH), where W is an m-by-r matrix, H is an r-by-n matrix, and r is the rank of the d…

math.OC2026

Strong NP-Hardness of Rank-2 Nonnegative Matrix Factorization

Arnaud Vandaele

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) approximates a nonnegative matrix by the product of two nonnegative matrices with a prescribed inner dimension~. The existence of an exact…

eess.SP2026

Nonlinear Tensor Decomposition for Pattern Discovery

Atharva Awari, Geert Roelof van der Ploeg, Arnaud Vandaele +2

The CANDECOMP/PARAFAC (CP) decomposition is widely used for revealing the underlying patterns from multiway data (also referred to as a higher-order tensor). When the data is clipp…

cs.SI2026

Degree-Corrected Joint Matrix Factorization for Multilayer Community Detection

Alexandra Dache, Manon Rustin, Arnaud Vandaele +1

Multilayer networks allow the modeling of interactions between the same entities across different contexts, such as temporal observations, varying settings, or interactions of diff…

cs.CC2026

On the Complexity of Low-Rank Matrix Signing and Entrywise Power Matrix Factorization

Nicolas Gillis, Subhayan Saha, Stefano Sicilia +1

Given a nonnegative matrix , a factorization rank and {a positive integer }, entrywise power matrix factorization (EPMF) looks for a low-rank matrix such that $X =…

math.OC2026

Manifold-based Algorithms for the Hadamard Decomposition

Nicolas Gillis, Subhayan Saha, Stefano Sicilia +1

Given a matrix , and two ranks and , the Hadamard decomposition (HD) looks for two low-rank matrices, of rank and of rank , both of the same si…

math.OC2026

Computing Lower Bounds on the Nonnegative Rank via Non-Convex Optimization Solvers

Timothy Baeckelant, Arnaud Vandaele, Nicolas Gillis

The nonnegative rank of a nonnegative matrix is the smallest number of nonnegative rank-one factors that sum to . Since computing the nonnegative rank is NP-hard, it is comm…

cs.LG2026

Nonnegative Matrix Factorization in the Component-Wise L1 Norm for Sparse Data

Giovanni Seraghiti, Kévin Dubrulle, Arnaud Vandaele +1

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) approximates a nonnegative matrix, X, by the product of two nonnegative factors, WH, where W has r columns and H has r rows. In this paper, w…

cs.SI2026

Matrix Factorization Framework for Community Detection under the Degree-Corrected Block Model

Alexandra Dache, Arnaud Vandaele, Nicolas Gillis

Community detection is a fundamental task in data analysis, and block models provide an approach for identifying a wide variety of community structures while offering high interpre…

cs.IR2025

Algorithms for Boolean Matrix Factorization using Integer Programming and Heuristics

Christos Kolomvakis, Thomas Bobille, Arnaud Vandaele +1

Boolean matrix factorization (BMF) approximates a given binary input matrix as the product of two smaller binary factors. Unlike binary matrix factorization based on standard arith…

eess.SP2025

Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers for Nonlinear Matrix Decompositions

Atharva Awari, Nicolas Gillis, Arnaud Vandaele

We present an algorithm based on the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) for solving nonlinear matrix decompositions (NMD). Given an input matrix $X \in \mathbb{R}^{…

cs.LG2025

Efficient algorithms for the Hadamard decomposition

Samuel Wertz, Arnaud Vandaele, Nicolas Gillis

The Hadamard decomposition is a powerful technique for data analysis and matrix compression, which decomposes a given matrix into the element-wise product of two or more low-rank m…

math.OC2023

Algorithms for Boolean Matrix Factorization using Integer Programming

Christos Kolomvakis, Arnaud Vandaele, Nicolas Gillis

Boolean matrix factorization (BMF) approximates a given binary input matrix as the product of two smaller binary factors. As opposed to binary matrix factorization which uses stand…

cs.LG2023

Accelerated Algorithms for Nonlinear Matrix Decomposition with the ReLU function

Giovanni Seraghiti, Atharva Awari, Arnaud Vandaele +2

In this paper, we study the following nonlinear matrix decomposition (NMD) problem: given a sparse nonnegative matrix , find a low-rank matrix such that , wh…

cs.LG2020★ 1 cited

Matrix-wise -constrained Sparse Nonnegative Least Squares

Nicolas Nadisic, Jeremy E Cohen, Arnaud Vandaele +1

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 non…

cs.LG2020

Sparse Separable Nonnegative Matrix Factorization

Nicolas Nadisic, Arnaud Vandaele, Jeremy E. Cohen +1

We propose a new variant of nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF), combining separability and sparsity assumptions. Separability requires that the columns of the first NMF factor…

math.NA2020

Off-diagonal Symmetric Nonnegative Matrix Factorization

François Moutier, Arnaud Vandaele, Nicolas Gillis

Symmetric nonnegative matrix factorization (symNMF) is a variant of nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) that allows to handle symmetric input matrices and has been shown to be p…

eess.SP2019★ 8 cited

Near-Convex Archetypal Analysis

Pierre De Handschutter, Nicolas Gillis, Arnaud Vandaele +1

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is a widely used linear dimensionality reduction technique for nonnegative data. NMF requires that each data point is approximated by a conve…

math.OC2017★ 14 cited

Algorithms for Positive Semidefinite Factorization

Arnaud Vandaele, François Glineur, Nicolas Gillis

This paper considers the problem of positive semidefinite factorization (PSD factorization), a generalization of exact nonnegative matrix factorization. Given an -by- nonnega…

math.NA2015★ 54 cited

Coordinate Descent Methods for Symmetric Nonnegative Matrix Factorization

Arnaud Vandaele, Nicolas Gillis, Qi Lei +2

Given a symmetric nonnegative matrix , symmetric nonnegative matrix factorization (symNMF) is the problem of finding a nonnegative matrix , usually with much fewer columns th…

math.OC2015★ 7 cited

On the Linear Extension Complexity of Regular n-gons

Arnaud Vandaele, Nicolas Gillis, François Glineur

In this paper, we propose new lower and upper bounds on the linear extension complexity of regular -gons. Our bounds are based on the equivalence between the computation of (i)…

math.OC2014★ 39 cited

Heuristics for Exact Nonnegative Matrix Factorization

Arnaud Vandaele, Nicolas Gillis, François Glineur +1

The exact nonnegative matrix factorization (exact NMF) problem is the following: given an -by- nonnegative matrix and a factorization rank , find, if possible, an -…

math.CO2014★ 5 cited

Computing The Extension Complexities of All 4-Dimensional 0/1-Polytopes

Michael Oelze, Arnaud Vandaele, Stefan Weltge

We present slight refinements of known general lower and upper bounds on sizes of extended formulations for polytopes. With these observations we are able to compute the extension…