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Contrastive learning is a recent promising approach in unsupervised representation learning where a feature representation of data is learned by solving a pseudo classification problem from unlabelled data. However, it is not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Hiroaki Sasaki , Takashi Takenouchi

Nonlinear independent component analysis (nICA) aims at recovering statistically independent latent components that are mixed by unknown nonlinear functions. Central to nICA is the identifiability of the latent components, which had been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Qi Lyu , Xiao Fu

Independent Component Analysis (ICA) is an effective unsupervised tool to learn statistically independent representation. However, ICA is not only sensitive to whitening but also difficult to learn an over-complete basis. Consequently, ICA…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-04-10 Yanhui Xiao , Zhenfeng Zhu , Yao Zhao

Independent Component Analysis (ICA) aims to recover independent latent variables from observed mixtures thereof. Causal Representation Learning (CRL) aims instead to infer causally related (thus often statistically dependent) latent…

We consider independent component analysis of binary data. While fundamental in practice, this case has been much less developed than ICA for continuous data. We start by assuming a linear mixing model in a continuous-valued latent space,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Antti Hyttinen , Vitória Barin-Pacela , Aapo Hyvärinen

Independent Component Analysis (ICA) aims to find a coordinate system in which the components of the data are independent. In this paper we construct a new nonlinear ICA model, called WICA, which obtains better and more stable results than…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Andrzej Bedychaj , Przemysław Spurek , Aleksandra Nowak , Jacek Tabor

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

We consider linear non-Gaussian structural equation models that involve latent confounding. In this setting, the causal structure is identifiable, but, in general, it is not possible to identify the specific causal effects. Instead, a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-08-12 Daniela Schkoda , Elina Robeva , Mathias Drton

Independent Component Analysis (ICA) is a classical method for recovering latent variables with useful identifiability properties. For independent variables, cumulant tensors are diagonal; relaxing independence yields tensors whose zero…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Alvaro Ribot , Anna Seigal , Piotr Zwiernik

Independent component analysis (ICA) is popular in many applications, including cognitive neuroscience and signal processing. Due to computational constraints, principal component analysis is used for dimension reduction prior to ICA…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-10-03 Benjamin B. Risk , David S. Matteson , David Ruppert

In the independent component model, the multivariate data is assumed to be a mixture of mutually independent latent components, and in independent component analysis (ICA) the aim is to estimate these latent components. In this paper we…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-06-23 Jari Miettinen , Markus Matilainen , Klaus Nordhausen , Sara Taskinen

We generalize the low-rank decomposition problem, such as principal and independent component analysis (PCA, ICA) for continuous-time vector-valued signals and provide a model-agnostic implicit neural signal representation framework to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Shayan K. Azmoodeh , Krishna Subramani , Paris Smaragdis

The nonlinear vector autoregressive (NVAR) model provides an appealing framework to analyze multivariate time series obtained from a nonlinear dynamical system. However, the innovation (or error), which plays a key role by driving the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-01 Hiroshi Morioka , Hermanni Hälvä , Aapo Hyvärinen

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

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-21 Amichai Painsky , Saharon Rosset , Meir Feder

Multiview analysis aims at extracting shared latent components from data samples that are acquired in different domains, e.g., image, text, and audio. Classic multiview analysis, e.g., canonical correlation analysis (CCA), tackles this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Qi Lyu , Xiao Fu

Identifiability of statistical models is a key notion in unsupervised representation learning. Recent work of nonlinear independent component analysis (ICA) employs auxiliary data and has established identifiable conditions. This paper…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-05-31 Hiroaki Sasaki

Reliable measures of statistical dependence could be useful tools for learning independent features and performing tasks like source separation using Independent Component Analysis (ICA). Unfortunately, many of such measures, like the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-17 Philemon Brakel , Yoshua Bengio

Independent component analysis (ICA) decomposes multivariate data into mutually independent components (ICs). The ICA model is subject to a constraint that at most one of these components is Gaussian, which is required for model…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-05-18 Ze Jin , Benjamin B. Risk , David S. Matteson

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

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