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A central problem in unsupervised deep learning is how to find useful representations of high-dimensional data, sometimes called "disentanglement". Most approaches are heuristic and lack a proper theoretical foundation. In linear…

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We investigate the impact of high-order moments on the learning dynamics of an online Independent Component Analysis (ICA) algorithm under a high-dimensional data model composed of a weighted sum of two non-Gaussian random variables. This…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-19 M. Oguzhan Gultekin , Samet Demir , Zafer Dogan

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

Independent component analysis (ICA) is a computational method for separating a multivariate signal into subcomponents assuming the mutual statistical independence of the non-Gaussian source signals. The classical Independent Components…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Huy Nguyen , Rong Zheng

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

Independent Component Analysis (ICA) uses a measure of non-Gaussianity to identify latent sources from data and estimate their mixing coefficients (Shimizu et al., 2006). Meanwhile, higher-order Orthogonal Machine Learning (OML) exploits…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-02 Patrik Reizinger , Lester Mackey , Wieland Brendel , Rahul Krishnan

Independent component analysis (ICA) is a powerful tool for decomposing a multivariate signal or distribution into fully independent sources, not just uncorrelated ones. Unfortunately, most approaches to ICA are not robust against outliers.…

Computation · Statistics 2025-05-15 Sarah Leyder , Jakob Raymaekers , Peter J. Rousseeuw , Tom Van Deuren , Tim Verdonck

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) - one of the basic tools in data analysis - aims to find a coordinate system in which the components of the data are independent. Most popular ICA methods use kurtosis as a metric of non-Gaussianity to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-16 P. Spurek , P. Rola , J. Tabor , A. Czechowski

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

Independent Component Analysis (ICA) is the problem of learning a square matrix $A$, given samples of $X=AS$, where $S$ is a random vector with independent coordinates. Most existing algorithms are provably efficient only when each $S_i$…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-02-24 Joseph Anderson , Navin Goyal , Anupama Nandi , Luis Rademacher

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 present a framework for analyzing the exact dynamics of a class of online learning algorithms in the high-dimensional scaling limit. Our results are applied to two concrete examples: online regularized linear regression and principal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Chuang Wang , Jonathan Mattingly , Yue M. Lu

We present a generalization of independent component analysis (ICA), where instead of looking for a linear transform that makes the data components independent, we look for a transform that makes the data components well fit by a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-01-07 Francis R. Bach , Michael I. Jordan

Independent component analysis (ICA) is a powerful method for blind source separation based on the assumption that sources are statistically independent. Though ICA has proven useful and has been employed in many applications, complete…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-10-21 Zois Boukouvalas , Yuri Levin-Schwartz , Tulay Adali

Independent component analysis (ICA) is now a widely used solution for the analysis of multi-subject functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data. Independent vector analysis (IVA) generalizes ICA to multiple datasets, i.e., to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-10 Trung Vu , Francisco Laport , Hanlu Yang , Vince D. Calhoun , Tulay Adali

This paper investigates a general robust one-shot aggregation framework for distributed and federated Independent Component Analysis (ICA) problem. We propose a geometric median-based aggregation algorithm that leverages $k$-means…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Dian Jin , Xin Bing , Yuqian Zhang

We present a simple, general technique for reducing the sample complexity of matrix and tensor decomposition algorithms applied to distributions. We use the technique to give a polynomial-time algorithm for standard ICA with sample…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-22 Santosh S. Vempala , Ying Xiao

Independent Component Analysis (ICA) is intended to recover the mutually independent sources from their linear mixtures, and F astICA is one of the most successful ICA algorithms. Although it seems reasonable to improve the performance of F…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-09 YunPeng Li

The extended infomax algorithm for independent component analysis (ICA) can separate sub- and super-Gaussian signals but converges slowly as it uses stochastic gradient optimization. In this paper, an improved extended infomax algorithm is…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-04-10 Nicole Ille