Title
A Provably Correct And Robust Algorithm For Convolutive Nonnegative Matrix Factorization
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a provably correct algorithm for convolutive nonnegative matrix factorization (CNMF) under separability assumptions. CNMF is a convolutive variant of nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF), which functions as an NMF with additional sequential structure. This model is useful in a number of applications, such as audio source separation and neural sequence identification. While a number of heuristic algorithms have been proposed to solve CNMF, to the best of our knowledge no provably correct algorithms have been developed. We present an algorithm that takes advantage of the NMF model underlying CNMF and exploits existing algorithms for separable NMF to provably find the unique solution (up to permutation and scaling) under separability-like conditions. Our approach guarantees the solution in low noise settings, and runs in polynomial time. We illustrate its effectiveness on synthetic datasets, and on a singing bird audio sequence.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/TSP.2020.2984163
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SIGNAL PROCESSING
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Convolutive nonnegative matrix factorization, algorithms, robustness to noise, separability
Journal
68
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1053-587X
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Anthony Degleris100.34
Nicolas Gillis250339.77