Title
One-bit-matching theorem for ICA, convex-concave programming on polyhedral set, and distribution approximation for combinatorics.
Abstract
According to the proof by Liu, Chiu, and Xu (2004) on the so-called one-bit-matching conjecture (Xu, Cheung, and Amari, 1998a), all the sources can be separated as long as there is an one-to-one same-sign correspondence between the kurtosis signs of all source probability density functions (pdf's) and the kurtosis signs of all model pdf's, which is widely believed and implicitly supported by many empirical studies. However, this proof is made only in a weak sense that the conjecture is true when the global optimal solution of an independent component analysis criterion is reached. Thus, it cannot support the successes of many existing iterative algorithms that usually converge at one of the local optimal solutions. This article presents a new mathematical proof that is obtained in a strong sense that the conjecture is also true when any one of local optimal solutions is reached in helping to investigating convex-concave programming on a polyhedral set. Theorems are also provided not only on partial separation of sources when there is a partial matching between the kurtosis signs, but also on an interesting duality of maximization and minimization on source separation. Moreover, corollaries are obtained on an interesting duality, with supergaussian sources separated by maximization and subgaussian sources separated by minimization. Also, a corollary is obtained to confirm the symmetric orthogonalization implementation of the kurtosis extreme approach for separating multiple sources in parallel, which works empirically but lacks mathematical proof. Furthermore, a linkage has been set up to combinatorial optimization from a distribution approximation perspective and a Stiefel manifold perspective, with algorithms that guarantee convergence as well as satisfaction of constraints.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1162/neco.2007.19.2.546
Neural Computation
Keywords
Field
DocType
kurtosis sign,polyhedral set,new mathematical proof,mathematical proof,so-called one-bit-matching conjecture,global optimal solution,distribution approximation,stiefel manifold perspective,one-bit-matching theorem,interesting duality,distribution approximation perspective,local optimal solution,kurtosis extreme approach,convex-concave programming,combinatorial optimization,probability density,global optimization,independent component analysis,stiefel manifold,empirical study
Duality (optimization),Artificial intelligence,Conjecture,Kurtosis,Combinatorics,Mathematical optimization,Combinatorial optimization,Mathematical proof,Independent component analysis,Orthogonalization,Convex optimization,Machine learning,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
19
2
0899-7667
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
0.53
17
Authors
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lei Xu13590387.32