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The brain effortlessly solves blind source separation (BSS) problems, but the algorithm it uses remains elusive. In signal processing, linear BSS problems are often solved by Independent Component Analysis (ICA). To serve as a model of a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Yanis Bahroun , Dmitri B Chklovskii , Anirvan M Sengupta

Recently, nonlinear ICA has surfaced as a popular alternative to the many heuristic models used in deep representation learning and disentanglement. An advantage of nonlinear ICA is that a sophisticated identifiability theory has been…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-29 Hermanni Hälvä , Jonathan So , Richard E. Turner , Aapo Hyvärinen

We show how to obtain improved active learning methods in the agnostic (adversarial noise) setting by combining marginal leverage score sampling with non-independent sampling strategies that promote spatial coverage. In particular, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Atsushi Shimizu , Xiaoou Cheng , Christopher Musco , Jonathan Weare

Independent component analysis (ICA) studies mixtures of independent latent sources. An ICA model is identifiable if the mixing can be recovered uniquely. It is well-known that ICA is identifiable if and only if at most one source is…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-01-29 Kexin Wang , Anna Seigal

Nonlinear independent component analysis (ICA) provides an appealing framework for unsupervised feature learning, but the models proposed so far are not identifiable. Here, we first propose a new intuitive principle of unsupervised deep…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-05-23 Aapo Hyvarinen , Hiroshi Morioka

Independent Component Analysis (ICA) was introduced in the 1980's as a model for Blind Source Separation (BSS), which refers to the process of recovering the sources underlying a mixture of signals, with little knowledge about the source…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-09 Syamantak Kumar , Purnamrita Sarkar , Peter Bickel , Derek Bean

A new computationally efficient dependence measure, and an adaptive statistical test of independence, are proposed. The dependence measure is the difference between analytic embeddings of the joint distribution and the product of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-10-18 Wittawat Jitkrittum , Zoltan Szabo , Arthur Gretton

Although approaches to Independent Component Analysis (ICA) based on characteristic function seem theoretically elegant, they may suffer from implementational challenges because of numerical integration steps or selection of tuning…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-07 Vincent Starck

Blind source separation algorithms such as independent component analysis (ICA) are widely used in the analysis of neuroimaging data. In order to leverage larger sample sizes, different data holders/sites may wish to collaboratively learn…

Independent component analysis (ICA) is a widely used BSS method that can uniquely achieve source recovery, subject to only scaling and permutation ambiguities, through the assumption of statistical independence on the part of the latent…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-01-29 Zois Boukouvalas

Independent component analysis (ICA) is a fundamental statistical tool used to reveal hidden generative processes from observed data. However, traditional ICA approaches struggle with the rotational invariance inherent in Gaussian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Ignavier Ng , Yujia Zheng , Xinshuai Dong , Kun Zhang

The statistical dependencies which independent component analysis (ICA) cannot remove often provide rich information beyond the linear independent components. It would thus be very useful to estimate the dependency structure from data.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-07-28 Hiroaki Sasaki , Michael U. Gutmann , Hayaru Shouno , Aapo Hyvärinen

Independent component analysis (ICA) is a cornerstone of modern data analysis. Its goal is to recover a latent random vector S with independent components from samples of X=AS where A is an unknown mixing matrix. Critically, all existing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-04-04 Nilin Abrahamsen , Philippe Rigollet

Log-linear models are a family of probability distributions which capture relationships between variables. They have been proven useful in a wide variety of fields such as epidemiology, economics and sociology. The interest in using these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Jan Strappa , Facundo Bromberg

Independent Mechanism Analysis (IMA) seeks to address non-identifiability in nonlinear Independent Component Analysis (ICA) by assuming that the Jacobian of the mixing function has orthogonal columns. As typical in ICA, previous work…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-12-22 Shubhangi Ghosh , Luigi Gresele , Julius von Kügelgen , Michel Besserve , Bernhard Schölkopf

Independent component analysis (ICA) is the most popular method for blind source separation (BSS) with a diverse set of applications, such as biomedical signal processing, video and image analysis, and communications. Maximum likelihood…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-10-25 Zois Boukouvalas , Rami Mowakeaa , Geng-Shen Fu , Tulay Adali

We consider the problem of recovering a common latent source with independent components from multiple views. This applies to settings in which a variable is measured with multiple experimental modalities, and where the goal is to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-08-02 Luigi Gresele , Paul K. Rubenstein , Arash Mehrjou , Francesco Locatello , Bernhard Schölkopf

Independent component analysis (ICA) is a statistical method for transforming an observable multi-dimensional random vector into components that are as statistically independent as possible from each other. Usually the ICA framework assumes…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-21 Amichai Painsky

Deep neural networks learn structured features from complex, non-Gaussian inputs, but the mechanisms behind this process remain poorly understood. Our work is motivated by the observation that the first-layer filters learnt by deep…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-14 Fabiola Ricci , Lorenzo Bardone , Sebastian Goldt

Independent Component Analysis (ICA) is a statistical method often used to decompose a complex dataset in its independent sub-parts. It is a powerful technique to solve a typical Blind Source Separation problem. A fast calculation of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Cecchi , F. Marcucci , G. Tosti