Block Majorization Minimization with Extrapolation and Application to $\beta$-NMF

We propose a Block Majorization Minimization method with Extrapolation (BMMe) for solving a class of multi-convex optimization problems. The extrapolation parameters of BMMe are updated using a novel adaptive update rule. By showing that block majorization minimization can be reformulated as a block mirror descent method, with the Bregman divergence adaptively updated at each iteration, … Read more

Inertial Block Mirror Descent Method for Non-Convex Non-Smooth Optimization

In this paper, we propose inertial versions of block coordinate descent methods for solving non-convex non-smooth composite optimization problems. We use the general framework of Bregman distance functions to compute the proximal maps. Our method not only allows using two different extrapolation points to evaluate gradients and adding the inertial force, but also takes advantage … Read more

Cyclic Coordinate Update Algorithms for Fixed-Point Problems: Analysis and Applications

Many problems reduce to the fixed-point problem of solving $x=T(x)$. To this problem, we apply the coordinate-update algorithms, which update only one or a few components of $x$ at each step. When each update is cheap, these algorithms are faster than the full fixed-point iteration (which updates all the components). In this paper, we focus … Read more

Quadratic regularization projected alternating Barzilai–Borwein method for constrained optimization

In this paper, based on the regularization techniques and projected gradient strategies, we present a quadratic regularization projected alternating Barzilai–Borwein (QRPABB) method for minimizing differentiable functions on closed convex sets. We show the convergence of the QRPABB method to a constrained stationary point for a nonmonotone line search. When the objective function is convex, we … Read more

Finding the largest low-rank clusters with Ky Fan 2-k-norm and l1-norm

We propose a convex optimization formulation with the Ky Fan 2-k-norm and l1-norm to fi nd k largest approximately rank-one submatrix blocks of a given nonnegative matrix that has low-rank block diagonal structure with noise. We analyze low-rank and sparsity structures of the optimal solutions using properties of these two matrix norms. We show that, under … Read more

Semidefinite Programming Based Preconditioning for More Robust Near-Separable Nonnegative Matrix Factorization

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) under the separability assumption can provably be solved efficiently, even in the presence of noise, and has been shown to be a powerful technique in document classification and hyperspectral unmixing. This problem is referred to as near-separable NMF and requires that there exists a cone spanned by a small subset of … Read more

Robust Near-Separable Nonnegative Matrix Factorization Using Linear Optimization

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) has been shown recently to be tractable under the separability assumption, under which all the columns of the input data matrix belong to the convex cone generated by only a few of these columns. Bittorf, Recht, R\’e and Tropp (`Factoring nonnegative matrices with linear programs’, NIPS 2012) proposed a linear programming … Read more

Robustness Analysis of HottTopixx, a Linear Programming Model for Factoring Nonnegative Matrices

Although nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is NP-hard in general, it has been shown very recently that it is tractable under the assumption that the input nonnegative data matrix is separable (that is, there exists a cone spanned by a small subset of the columns containing all columns). Since then, several algorithms have been designed to … Read more

Fast and Robust Recursive Algorithms for Separable Nonnegative Matrix Factorization

In this paper, we study the nonnegative matrix factorization problem under the separability assumption (that is, there exists a cone spanned by a small subset of the columns of the input nonnegative data matrix containing all columns), which is equivalent to the hyperspectral unmixing problem under the linear mixing model and the pure-pixel assumption. We … Read more

Factoring nonnegative matrices with linear programs

This paper describes a new approach for computing nonnegative matrix factorizations (NMFs) with linear programming. The key idea is a data-driven model for the factorization, in which the most salient features in the data are used to express the remaining features. More precisely, given a data matrix X, the algorithm identifies a matrix C that … Read more