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Independent component analysis (ICA) estimates a demixing matrix that can recover statistically independent sources from linear mixtures. FastICA is a popular ICA algorithm due to its efficiency, but its performance strongly depends on a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-27 David Watts , Jonathan H. Manton

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

This paper extends recent work on nonlinear Independent Component Analysis (ICA) by introducing a theoretical framework for nonlinear Independent Subspace Analysis (ISA) in the presence of auxiliary variables. Observed high dimensional…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-28 Amrith Setlur , Barnabas Poczos , Alan W Black

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

Following the recent success of word embeddings, it has been argued that there is no such thing as an ideal representation for words, as different models tend to capture divergent and often mutually incompatible aspects like…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Mikel Artetxe , Gorka Labaka , Iñigo Lopez-Gazpio , Eneko Agirre

Building complex software systems necessitates the use of component-based architectures. In theory, of the set of components needed for a design, only some small portion of them are "custom"; the rest are reused or refactored existing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Joseph R. Kiniry

Independent component analysis (ICA) is a fundamental data processing technique to decompose the captured signals into as independent as possible components. Computing the contrast function, which serves as a measure of independence of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-22 Xiao-Fan Xu , Cheng Xue , Zhao-Yun Chen , Yu-Chun Wu , Guo-Ping Guo

Independent Component Analysis (ICA) is a dimensionality reduction technique that can boost efficiency of machine learning models that deal with probability density functions, e.g. Bayesian neural networks. Algorithms that implement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-10 Mahdi Nazemi , Shahin Nazarian , Massoud Pedram

Independent Component Analysis (ICA) is an important step in EEG processing for a wide-ranging set of applications. However, ICA requires well-designed studies and data collection practices to yield optimal results. Past studies have…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-13 Gwenevere Frank , Seyed Yahya Shirazi , Jason Palmer , Gert Cauwenberghs , Scott Makeig , Arnaud Delorme

In real-world data, information is stored in extremely large feature vectors. These variables are typically correlated due to complex interactions involving many features simultaneously. Such correlations qualitatively correspond to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Santiago Acevedo , Alex Rodriguez , Alessandro Laio

This paper proposes a novel method of independent component analysis (ICA), which we name higher-order tensor ICA (HOT-ICA). HOT-ICA is a tensor ICA that makes effective use of the signal categories represented by the axes of a separating…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-04 Seishiro Goto , Ryo Natsuaki , Akira Hirose

Machine learning tools often rely on embedding text as vectors of real numbers. In this paper, we study how the semantic structure of language is encoded in the algebraic structure of such embeddings. Specifically, we look at a notion of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Yibo Jiang , Bryon Aragam , Victor Veitch

Independent component analysis (ICA) has been shown to be useful in many applications. However, most ICA methods are sensitive to data contamination and outliers. In this article we introduce a general minimum U-divergence framework for…

Methodology · Statistics 2012-10-23 Peng-Wen Chen , Hung Hung , Osamu Komori , Su-Yun Huang , Shinto Eguchi

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

Blind source separation, particularly through independent component analysis (ICA), is widely utilized across various signal processing domains for disentangling underlying components from observed mixed signals, owing to its fully…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-01-06 Qiang Li , Shujian Yu , Liang Ma , Chen Ma , Jingyu Liu , Tulay Adali , Vince D. Calhoun

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

Nonlinear ICA is a fundamental problem for unsupervised representation learning, emphasizing the capacity to recover the underlying latent variables generating the data (i.e., identifiability). Recently, the very first identifiability…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-05 Aapo Hyvarinen , Hiroaki Sasaki , Richard E. Turner

Modelling term dependence in IR aims to identify co-occurring terms that are too heavily dependent on each other to be treated as a bag of words, and to adapt the indexing and ranking accordingly. Dependent terms are predominantly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-10-31 Christina Lioma , Jakob Grue Simonsen , Birger Larsen , Niels Dalum Hansen

We consider the framework of Independent Component Analysis (ICA) for the case where the independent sources and their linear mixtures all reside in a Galois field of prime order P. Similarities and differences from the classical ICA…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-07-14 Arie Yeredor

We consider the identifiability theory of probabilistic models and establish sufficient conditions under which the representations learned by a very broad family of conditional energy-based models are unique in function space, up to a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-27 Ilyes Khemakhem , Ricardo Pio Monti , Diederik P. Kingma , Aapo Hyvärinen