Positive and Negative Label-Driven Nonnegative Matrix Factorization

Abstract

Positive label is often used as the supervisory information in the learning scenario, which refers to the category that a sample is assigned to. However, another side information lying in the labels, which describes the categories that a sample is exclusive of, have been largely ignored. In this paper, we propose a nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) based classification method leveraging both positive and negative label information, which is termed as positive and negative label-driven NMF (PNLD-NMF). The proposed scheme concurrently accomplishes data representation and classification in a joint manner. Owing to the complementary characteristics between positive and negative labels, we further design a new regularization framework to take advantage of these two label types. Extensive experiments on six image classification benchmark datasets show that the proposed scheme is able to consistently deliver better classification accuracy.