Title
SymNMF: nonnegative low-rank approximation of a similarity matrix for graph clustering
Abstract
Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) provides a lower rank approximation of a matrix by a product of two nonnegative factors. NMF has been shown to produce clustering results that are often superior to those by other methods such as K-means. In this paper, we provide further interpretation of NMF as a clustering method and study an extended formulation for graph clustering called Symmetric NMF (SymNMF). In contrast to NMF that takes a data matrix as an input, SymNMF takes a nonnegative similarity matrix as an input, and a symmetric nonnegative lower rank approximation is computed. We show that SymNMF is related to spectral clustering, justify SymNMF as a general graph clustering method, and discuss the strengths and shortcomings of SymNMF and spectral clustering. We propose two optimization algorithms for SymNMF and discuss their convergence properties and computational efficiencies. Our experiments on document clustering, image clustering, and image segmentation support SymNMF as a graph clustering method that captures latent linear and nonlinear relationships in the data.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1007/s10898-014-0247-2
Journal of Global Optimization
Keywords
Field
DocType
Symmetric nonnegative matrix factorization,Low-rank approximation,Graph clustering,Spectral clustering
k-medians clustering,Spectral clustering,CURE data clustering algorithm,Mathematical optimization,Clustering high-dimensional data,Pattern recognition,Correlation clustering,Non-negative matrix factorization,Artificial intelligence,Biclustering,Cluster analysis,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
62
3
0925-5001
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
46
1.15
50
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Da Kuang11195.90
Sangwoon Yun250742.38
Haesun Park33546232.42