NMF and PLSI: equivalence and a hybrid algorithm

  • Authors:
  • Chris Ding;Tao Li;Wei Peng

  • Affiliations:
  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA;Florida International University, Miami, FL;Florida International University, Miami, FL

  • Venue:
  • SIGIR '06 Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In this paper, we show that PLSI and NMF optimize the same objective function, although PLSI and NMF are different algorithms as verified by experiments. In addition, we also propose a new hybrid method that runs PLSI and NMF alternatively to achieve better solutions.