SoF: Soft-Cluster Matrix Factorization for Probabilistic Clustering

Authors: Han Zhao, Pascal Poupart, Yongfeng Zhang, Martin Lysy

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Reproducibility Variable Result LLM Response
Research Type Experimental Experimental results on both synthetic and real-world datasets show that So F significantly outperforms previous NMF-based algorithms and that it is able to detect non-convex patterns as well as cluster boundaries.
Researcher Affiliation Academia David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Canada Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, China Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo, Canada
Pseudocode Yes Algorithm 1 Sequential Minimization to Unconstrained Problem
Open Source Code No The paper does not provide an explicit statement or link for the open-source code of the described methodology.
Open Datasets Yes We use 7 real-world data sets from the UCI Machine Learning Repository5. The statistics of the datasets are summarized in Table 2. More detailed information about these data sets can be found at the UCI Machine Learning Repository. archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets.html
Dataset Splits No The paper mentions running algorithms multiple times and evaluating on datasets, but it does not specify train/validation/test splits, percentages, or cross-validation setup for the datasets.
Hardware Specification No The paper does not provide any specific hardware details such as GPU/CPU models or memory specifications used for running the experiments.
Software Dependencies No The paper mentions various algorithms and optimization methods but does not provide specific version numbers for any software libraries or dependencies used for implementation.
Experiment Setup Yes Input: I = {v1, . . . , v N}, distance function L, # of clusters K, scale factor c > 0, initial penalty parameters λ(0) 1 , λ(0) 2 > 0, step-factor µ > 1, initial learning rate 0 < γ(0) < 1, threshold 0 < ϵ1, ϵ2 1.