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There is a gap between the theoretical foundations of disentanglement and the practice of modern representation learning. Existing theoretical frameworks, particularly Independent Component Analysis (ICA) and its nonlinear variants, assume…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Edmond Cunningham

Independent Component Analysis (ICA) is a foundational tool for unsupervised representation learning, yet its high-dimensional theory remains largely limited to single-component recovery. We develop an asymptotically exact mean-field theory…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-12 Eser Ilke Genc , Samet Demir , Zafer Dogan

Latent variable discovery is a central problem in data analysis with a broad range of applications in applied science. In this work, we consider data given as an invertible mixture of two statistically independent components and assume that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-03-08 Uri Shaham , Jonathan Svirsky , Ori Katz , Ronen Talmon

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) is a statistical tool that decomposes an observed random vector into components that are as statistically independent as possible. ICA over finite fields is a special case of ICA, in which both the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-14 Amichai Painsky , Saharon Rosset , Meir Feder

Causal discovery from i.i.d. observational data is known to be generally ill-posed. We demonstrate that if we have access to the distribution {induced} by a structural causal model, and additional data from (in the best case) \textit{only…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-15 Francesco Montagna

In recent years, several methods have been proposed for the discovery of causal structure from non-experimental data (Spirtes et al. 2000; Pearl 2000). Such methods make various assumptions on the data generating process to facilitate its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-09 Shohei Shimizu , Aapo Hyvarinen , Yutaka Kano , Patrik O. Hoyer

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

A central question of representation learning asks under which conditions it is possible to reconstruct the true latent variables of an arbitrarily complex generative process. Recent breakthrough work by Khemakhem et al. (2019) on nonlinear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Peter Sorrenson , Carsten Rother , Ullrich Köthe

Independent component analysis (ICA) has become a standard data analysis technique applied to an array of problems in signal processing and machine learning. This tutorial provides an introduction to ICA based on linear algebra formulating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-04-14 Jonathon Shlens

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

Machine learning and data analysis now finds both scientific and industrial application in biology, chemistry, geology, medicine, and physics. These applications rely on large quantities of data gathered from automated sensors and user…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-26 Joseph Anderson

Independent Component Analysis (ICA) plays a central role in modern machine learning as a flexible framework for feature extraction. We introduce a horseshoe-type prior with a latent Polya-Gamma scale mixture representation, yielding…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-17 Jyotishka Datta , Soham Ghosh , Nicholas G. Polson

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…

The goal of this paper is to extend independent subspace analysis (ISA) to the case of (i) nonparametric, not strictly stationary source dynamics and (ii) unknown source component dimensions. We make use of functional autoregressive (fAR)…

Methodology · Statistics 2012-01-04 Zoltan Szabo

For statistical analysis of functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) data sets, we propose a data-driven approach based on Independent Component Analysis (ICA) implemented in a new version of the AnalyzeFMRI R package. For fMRI data…

Computation · Statistics 2013-07-22 Cécile Bordier , Michel Dojat , Pierre Lafaye de Micheaux

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 the problem of efficiently recovering a matrix $A \in \mathbb{R}^{n\times n}$ from i.i.d. observations of $X=AS$ where $S \in \mathbb{R}^n$ is a random vector with mutually independent coordinates.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-09-03 Joseph Anderson , Navin Goyal , Anupama Nandi , Luis Rademacher

Independent Component Analysis (ICA) is a technique for unsupervised exploration of multi-channel data that is widely used in observational sciences. In its classic form, ICA relies on modeling the data as linear mixtures of non-Gaussian…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-08-01 Pierre Ablin , Jean-François Cardoso , Alexandre Gramfort

In recent years, there has been growing interest in jointly analyzing a foreground dataset, representing an experimental group, and a background dataset, representing a control group. The goal of such contrastive investigations is to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Kexin Wang , Aida Maraj , Anna Seigal