Robust Nonnegative Matrix Factorization With Self-Initiated Multigraph Contrastive Fusion

Graph regularized nonnegative matrix factorization (GNMF) has been widely used in data representation due to its excellent dimensionality reduction. When it comes to clustering polluted data, GNMF inevitably learns inaccurate representations, leading to models that are unusually sensitive to outliers in the data. For example, in a face dataset, obscured by items such as a mask or glasses, there is a high probability that the graph regularization term incorrectly describes the association relationship for that sample, resulting in an incorrect elicitation in the matrix factorization process. In this article, a novel self-initiated unsupervised subspace learning method named robust nonnegative matrix factorization with self-initiated multigraph contrastive fusion (RNMF-SMGF) is proposed. RNMF-SMGF is capable of creating samples with different angles and learning different graph structures based on these different angles in a self-initiated method without changing the original data. In the process of subspace learning guided by graph regularization, these different graph structures are fused into a more accurate graph structure, along with entropy regularization, $L_{2,1/2}$ -norm constraints to facilitate the robust learning of the proposed model and the formation of different clusters in the low-dimensional space. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed model in robust clustering, we have conducted extensive experiments on several benchmark datasets and demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed method. The source code is available at: https://github.com/LstinWh/RNMF-SMGF/.