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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

This study utilizes Independent Component Analysis (ICA) to unveil a consistent semantic structure within embeddings of words or images. Our approach extracts independent semantic components from the embeddings of a pre-trained model by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Hiroaki Yamagiwa , Momose Oyama , Hidetoshi Shimodaira

We study the problem of learning disentangled signals from data using non-linear Independent Component Analysis (ICA). Motivated by advances in self-supervised learning, we propose to learn self-sufficient signals: A recovered signal should…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-02 Song Liu

Nonlinear independent component analysis (ICA) aims to recover the underlying independent latent sources from their observable nonlinear mixtures. How to make the nonlinear ICA model identifiable up to certain trivial indeterminacies is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Yujia Zheng , Ignavier Ng , Kun Zhang

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

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) models are very popular semiparametric models in which we observe independent copies of a random vector $X = AS$, where $A$ is a non-singular matrix and $S$ has independent components. We propose a new…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-06-05 Richard J. Samworth , Ming Yuan

Learning representations with diversified information remains as an open problem. Towards learning diversified representations, a new approach, termed Information Competing Process (ICP), is proposed in this paper. Aiming to enrich the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Jie Hu , Rongrong Ji , ShengChuan Zhang , Xiaoshuai Sun , Qixiang Ye , Chia-Wen Lin , Qi Tian

Linear Independent Component Analysis (ICA) is a blind source separation technique that has been used in various domains to identify independent latent sources from observed signals. In order to obtain a higher signal-to-noise ratio, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Ambroise Heurtebise , Pierre Ablin , Alexandre Gramfort

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) 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

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

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

Independent component analysis (ICA) aims at decomposing an observed random vector into statistically independent variables. Deflation-based implementations, such as the popular one-unit FastICA algorithm and its variants, extract the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-15 Vicente Zarzoso , Pierre Comon

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

Independent component analysis (ICA), as a data driven method, has shown to be a powerful tool for functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data analysis. One drawback of this multivariate approach is, that it is not compatible to the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-03-25 Simon Wein , Ana Maria Tomé , Markus Goldhacker , Mark W. Greenlee , Elmar W. Lang

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

The learning dynamics of on-line independent component analysis is analysed in the limit of large data dimension. We study a simple Hebbian learning algorithm that can be used to separate out a small number of non-Gaussian components from a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Gleb Basalyga , Magnus Rattray

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