Speaker
Johannes Friedrich
(CCB)
Description
Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) has become a widely used tool for the analysis of high-dimensional data as it automatically extracts sparse and meaningful features from a set of nonnegative data vectors. I first illustrate this property of NMF on some applications. Then I address the problem of solving NMF, which is NP-hard in general, and review some standard NMF algorithms. Finally, I briefly describe an online NMF algorithm, which scales up gracefully to large data sets.
