Independent Component Analysis

Zhen Wei, Li Jin, Yuxue Jin

Department of StatisticsStanford University

An Introduction

Outline

Introduction History, Motivation and Problem Formulation

Algorithms Stochastic Gradient Algorithm FastICA Ordering Algorithm

Applications Concluding Remark

Introduction

There has been a wide discussion about the application of Independence Component Analysis (ICA) in Signal Processing, Neural Computation and Finance, first introduced as a novel tool to separate blind sources in a mixed signal. The Basic idea of ICA is to reconstruct from observation sequences the hypothesized independent original sequences.

ICA versus PCA

Similarity Feature extraction Dimension reduction

Difference PCA uses up to second order moment of the

data to produce uncorrelated components ICA strives to generate components as

independent as possible

Motivation － Blind Source Separation Suppose that there are k unknown indepe

ndent sources

A data vector x(t) is observed at each time point t, such that

where A is a full rank scalar matrix

Mixingprocess

A

Blind source separation

Independentcomponents

…

BlindSource

De-mixingprocess

W…

Observedsequences

Recovered independen

t components

Problem formulation

The goal of ICA is to find a linear mapping W such that the unmixed sequences u

are maximally statistically independent Find some

where C is a diagonal matrix and P is a permutation matrix.

Principle of ICA: Nongaussianity

The fundamental restriction in ICA is that the independent components must be nongaussian for ICA to be possible.

This is because gaussianity is invariant under orthogonal transformation and hence make the matrix A not identifiable for gaussian independent components.

Measures of nongaussianity (1)

Kurtosis

Kurtosis can be very sensitive to outliers, when its value has to be estimate from a measured sample.

Measures of nongaussianity (2)

Negentropy A guassian variable has the largest entropy

among all random variables of equal variance. Definition:

where is entropy

and ygauss is a gaussian random variable of the same covariance matrix as y

Measures of nongaussianity (3) Mutual information

Definition:

Mutual information is a natural measure of the dependence between random variables.

It is always non-negative, and zero if and only if the variables are statistically independent.

Relation between negentropy and Mutual Information If we constrain yi to be uncorrelated and of unit var

iance

where C is a constant that does not depend on W. This shows that finding an invertible transformatio

n W that minimizes the mutual information is equivalent to finding directions in which the negentropy is maximized.

Algorithms

Maximum likelihood Bell and Sejnowski (1995)Maximum entropyMinimum mutual information

Low-Complexity Coding and Decoding (LOCOCODE ) Sepp Hochreiter et al. (1998)

Neuro-mimetic approach

Maximum Likelihood

The log-likelihood is:

where the fi are the density functions of the si

Connection to mutual information:

if the fi were equal to the true distributions of

Stochastic Gradient Algorithm

Initialize the weight matrix W Iteration:

where is the learning rate, g is a nonlinear function, e.g.

Repeat until converges to The ICAs are the components of

FastICA － Preprocessing

Centering:Make the x-s mean 0 variables

WhiteningTransform the observed vector x linearly so

that it has unit variance:One can show that:

where

FastICA algorithm

Initialize the weight matrix W Iteration:

where Repeat until convergence

The ICAs are the components of

Ordering of the ICAs

Unlike PCA which has well-defined and intuitive explanation of the ordering of its components, i.e. the eigen values of its covariance matrix, ICA, however, deserves further investigation on this particular problem since a particular kind of ordering is not readily at hand.

Follow a heuristic scheme called: testing-and-acceptance (TNA)

Ordering Algorithm

Applications (1)

Feature extraction: Recognize the pattern of excess returns of Mutual Funds in the financial market of China

Data: the time series of excess returns of four mutual funds in the financial market of China

ICA components

ICA reconstruction

Applications (2)

Image de-noising ICASparse Code Shrinkage

The example is exacted from (Hyvarinen, 1999).

Image de-noising (1)

Suppose a noisy image model holds:

where n is uncorrelated noise.

where W is an orthogonal matrix that is the best orthogonal approximation of the inverse of the ICA mixing matrix.

Image de-noising (1)

Sparse code shrinkage transformation:

Function g(.) is zero close to the origin and linear after a cutting value depending on the parameters of the Laplacian density and the Gaussian noise density.

1. Original image 2. Corrupted with noise

3. Recover by ICA and Sparse Code Shrinkage

3. Recover by classical wiener filtering

Concluding Remarks

ICA is a very flexible and widely-applicable tool which searches the linear transformation of the observed data into statistically maximally independent components

It is also interesting to note that the methods to compute ICA: maximum negentropy, minimum Mutual Information, maximum likelihood are equivalent to each other (at least in the statistical sense). There is also resemblance between the forms of the gradient descent (Newton Raphson) algorithm and the FastICA algorithm.

Other application prospects: audio (signal) processing, image processing, telecommunication, Finance, Education

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