Linear Independent Component Analysis (ICA) recovers jointly independent source signals from their linear mixtures. To achieve this, classical ICA algorithms attempt to maximize non-Gaussianity, measured by negentropy, which is linked to independence by information theory.
arXiv:2608. 13229v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present the mathematical foundations of linear independent component analysis (ICA) models based on standard literature in a self-contained note.
By Patrick Forr\'e
arXiv:2606. 06104v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electroencephalography (EEG) offers noninvasive, millisecond resolution recordings of neuronal activity and is widely used in neuroscience and healthcare.
By Chen Hu, Rui Wang, Jiale Zhou, Jingjun Yi, Shaocheng Jin, Yidong Song, Yefeng Zheng
arXiv:2602. 04272v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The Importance-Weighted Evidence Lower Bound (IW-ELBO) has emerged as an effective objective for variational inference (VI), tightening the standard ELBO and mitigating the mode-seeking behaviour.
By Peiwen Jiang, Takuo Matsubara, Minh-Ngoc Tran
arXiv:2606. 07914v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study component recovery and mixing-matrix estimation from unlabeled finite mixtures whose observable distributions share the same latent components but have unknown mixing weights.
By Takafumi Kanamori, Yushi Hirose, Shohei Yamamoto
arXiv:2606. 25456v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) based on electroencephalography (EEG) enables direct interaction between the brain and external environments and has significant applications in assistive technologies, medical rehabilitation, and entertainment.
By Shaocheng Jin, Tao Zhou, Rui Wang, Ziheng Chen, Xiaoqing Luo, Xiaojun Wu, Josef Kittler
arXiv:2606. 17196v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper is concerned with learning principal variations of random probability measures on $\mathbb{R}^m$ under the Wasserstein geometry.
By Peng Xu, Changbo Zhu, Young-Heon Kim, Xiaohui Chen
arXiv:2411. 00214v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Otto's Wasserstein gradient flow of the inclusive (forward) Kullback--Leibler (KL) divergence offers a principled framework for analyzing statistical inference algorithms, yet algorithms targeting the exclusive (reverse) KL divergence are rarely studied with such tools.
By Jia-Jie Zhu
arXiv:2606. 30310v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The Sliced Wasserstein (SW) distance has emerged as a computationally attractive alternative to the Wasserstein distance by leveraging one-dimensional optimal transport along random projections.
By Christophe Vauthier, Quentin M\'erigot, Anna Korba
arXiv:2606. 02047v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce Convex Distance Operator Transport (CDOT), the first convex optimal transport framework that aligns distributions across heterogeneous domains by jointly preserving feature correspondence and intrinsic geometric structure.
By Junhyoung Chung, Euijong Song, Won Hwa Kim, Gunwoong Park
arXiv:2606. 27767v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Optimizing functionals over the space of probability measures is now ubiquitous in machine learning.
By Cl\'ement Bonet, Pierre-Cyril Aubin-Frankowski, Youssef Mroueh
arXiv:2608. 13418v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Given a dataset where a portion of the samples are contaminated, our goal is to recover the underlying clean population distribution.
By Yikai Xu, Zhao Chen, Jian Huang