Talk:Independent component analysis

message: The definition of negentropy you have linked to does not seem relevant to this article; could you update the negentropy article to explain the term as used in ICA literature?  Thanks --Chinasaur 00:37, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: This article is really bad. It jumps straight into a discussion of ICA with noise, which is not the normal case considered, but is more related to linear factor analysis. There used to be some good material here but it has disappeared. I am considering offering a complete rewrite of this article. (Tony Bell)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tony848 (talk • contribs) 02:17, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Tony, if you can find the time I think that would be an excellent idea. The article as it stands is sparse (fitting for ICA but not a good thing for articles), the original definition is not to the point, and the mathematical model could be made more clear. Also, the article seems to lack an algorithmic content. It would be useful to outline a few of the more commonly used ICA algorithms. The fact that neither entropy, KL-divergence, or even a formal definition of statistical independence are mentioned is very curious. Also, diagrams would be great. I can take a stab at this fairly soon, but if anyone wants to bootstrap the rewrite, I will be happy to add in figures and overviews of the various algorithms. --Tekhnofiend (talk) 01:21, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not very good 

message: I find the German article on this subject a lot better. Could a native German-speaker have a look?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.89.67.57 (talk) 15:00, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  German article 

message: Was the definition copied from another source and taken out-of-context?  As a mathematician, I find it incomprehensible. Lavaka 17:33, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Amen to that. The casual reader would have an extremely difficult time understanding any of this.Beeblbrox (talk) 03:41, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  definition needs cleanup 

message: *Source: http://www.cnl.salk.edu/~tewon/ICA/preface.html (1998)
*Diff:  (2005)
*No authorization is included.
*Text removed
--F. Cosoleto 16:14, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyviol 

message: The intro said: the ICA methods are not able to extract the actual number of source signals, the order of the source signals, nor the signs or the scales of the sources. But Sepp Hochreiter and Jürgen  Schmidhuber showed how to obtain non-linear ICA or source separation as a by-product of regularization (1999).  Their method does not require a priori knowledge about the number of independent sources.
So I changed this to: most ICA methods. Algorithms 16:18, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Number of sources 

message: Why do we have Generative model subtitle with no content?
Its immediately followed by Linear noiseless ICA. Someone familiar with ICA
details please fill in.
--பராசக்தி 21:12, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Model 

message: This article is unreadable to the average user. Please bear in mind that this is an encyclopedia, not a mathematics journal. Clarification is needed, especially in the lead section, which gives the reader no reasonable basis for understanding the subjects notability, or indeed, purpose. Beeblbrox (talk) 00:50, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, six months later, the lead section is still not something your casual reader could understand. I would just fix it myself, but I am that average reader and there is just too much specialized jargon in that lead section that I'm not familiar with. Beeblbrox (talk) 16:27, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please make this readable 

message: "Usually the problem is simplified by assuming no time delays and echoes."
I'd intuitively think that time delays between each microphone would make it easier to separate the signals, since each source would correlate with itself at different times.  If ICA is simplified by removing time delay, does this mean ICA doesn't take advantage of this effect and is not optimal for this scenario?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.167.60.246 (talk) 14:30, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  No time delay? 

message: Reading through the algorithm, it is apparent that the whole business of inverting the coefficient matrix is completely unnecessary; since you're optimizing the components of the result matrix W directly, just return the result of this optimized matrix instead of returning it as it's inverse/pseudo-inverse A.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.243.202.217 (talk) 01:12, 26 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unnecessarily complicated algorithm for Generative Model Linear Noiseless ICA 

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