Tony Bell, 4/25/03

Dependent Component Analysis - problems and some solutions

In order to build multi-layer self-organising feature extraction networks, and solve the feedforward part of the neural computation problem, we need to understand the relationship between the nonlinear transformations involved, the mathematics of the relevant feature spaces, and the corresponding shapes in the probability distributions of the signals.

I will give an update on progress on this front, from the point of view of an emerging class of algorithms which, unlike ICA, search for simple forms of dependency structure in natural data.