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20242026
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6 papers

cs.LG2026

Maximum-distance nonnegative matrix factorization for unmixing highly mixed grain-size distribution data: A generalization of AnalySize

Qianqian Qi, Zhongming Chen, Peter G. M. van der Heijden

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) decomposes a nonnegative matrix into the product of two nonnegative matrices. This property makes NMF well suited for unmixing grain-size dis…

cs.LG2026

Identification of NMF by choosing maximum-volume basis vectors

Qianqian Qi, Zhongming Chen, Peter G. M. van der Heijden

In nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF), minimum-volume-constrained NMF is a widely used framework for identifying the solution of NMF by making basis vectors as similar as possi…

cs.CL2026

Correspondence Analysis and PMI-Based Word Embeddings: A Comparative Study

Qianqian Qi, Ayoub Bagheri, David J. Hessen +1

Popular word embedding methods such as GloVe and Word2Vec are related to the factorization of the pointwise mutual information (PMI) matrix. In this paper, we establish a formal co…

stat.ME2026

Unmixing highly mixed grain size distribution data via maximum volume constrained end member analysis

Qianqian Qi, Zhongming Chen, Peter G. M. van der Heijden

End member analysis (EMA) unmixes grain size distribution (GSD) data into a mixture of end members (EMs), thus helping understand sediment provenance and depositional regimes and p…

stat.ML2025

A review of NMF, PLSA, LBA, EMA, and LCA with a focus on the identifiability issue

Qianqian Qi, Peter G. M. van der Heijden

Across fields such as machine learning, social science, geography, considerable attention has been given to models that factorize a nonnegative matrix into the product of two or th…

stat.ME2024

Correspondence analysis: handling cell-wise outliers via the reconstitution algorithm

Qianqian Qi, David J. Hessen, Aike N. Vonk +1

Correspondence analysis (CA) is a popular technique to visualize the relationship between two categorical variables. CA uses the data from a two-way contingency table and is affect…