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A seminal result in the ICA literature states that for $AY = \varepsilon$, if the components of $\varepsilon$ are independent and at most one is Gaussian, then $A$ is identified up to sign and permutation of its rows (Comon, 1994). In this…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-21 Geert Mesters , Piotr Zwiernik

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

We deal with a model where a set of observations is obtained by a linear superposition of unknown components called sources. The problem consists in recovering the sources without knowing the linear transform. We extend the well-known…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-14 Marc Castella

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

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

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 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

We are interested in consistent estimation of the mixing matrix in the ICA model, when the error distribution is close to (but different from) Gaussian. In particular, we consider $n$ independent samples from the ICA model $X = A\epsilon$,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-08-26 Alexander Sokol , Marloes H. Maathuis , Benjamin Falkeborg

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

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

Causal discovery based on Independent Component Analysis (ICA) has achieved remarkable success through the LiNGAM framework, which exploits non-Gaussianity and independence of noise variables to identify causal order. However, classical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Joe Suzuki

Independent component analysis (ICA) is a fundamental problem in the field of signal processing, and numerous algorithms have been developed to address this issue. The core principle of these algorithms is to find a transformation matrix…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-21 Liangliang Zhu , Zhebin Song , Xuesen Zhang , Meibin Qi

Non-gaussian component analysis (NGCA) introduced in offered a method for high dimensional data analysis allowing for identifying a low-dimensional non-Gaussian component of the whole distribution in an iterative and structure adaptive way.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-04-24 Elmar Diederichs , Anatoli Juditsky , Vladimir Spokoiny , Christof Schuette

We introduce a new general identifiable framework for principled disentanglement referred to as Structured Nonlinear Independent Component Analysis (SNICA). Our contribution is to extend the identifiability theory of deep generative models…

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

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

Unsupervised feature learning algorithms based on convolutional formulations of independent components analysis (ICA) have been demonstrated to yield state-of-the-art results in several action recognition benchmarks. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-25 Sotirios P. Chatzis

This work introduces a novel principle we call disentanglement via mechanism sparsity regularization, which can be applied when the latent factors of interest depend sparsely on past latent factors and/or observed auxiliary variables. We…

Finding overcomplete latent representations of data has applications in data analysis, signal processing, machine learning, theoretical neuroscience and many other fields. In an overcomplete representation, the number of latent features…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Jesse A. Livezey , Alejandro F. Bujan , Friedrich T. Sommer

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