Title
The Incomplete Rosetta Stone Problem: Identifiability Results for Multi-View Nonlinear ICA.
Abstract
We consider the problem of recovering a common latent source with independent components from multiple views. This applies to settings in which a variable is measured with multiple experimental modalities, and where the goal is to synthesize the disparate measurements into a single unified representation. We consider the case that the observed views are a nonlinear mixing of component-wise corruptions of the sources. When the views are considered separately, this reduces to nonlinear Independent Component Analysis (ICA) for which it is provably impossible to undo the mixing. We present novel identifiability proofs that this is possible when the multiple views are considered jointly, showing that the mixing can theoretically be undone using function approximators such as deep neural networks. In contrast to known identifiability results for nonlinear ICA, we prove that independent latent sources with arbitrary mixing can be recovered as long as multiple, sufficiently different noisy views are available.
Year
Venue
Field
2019
UAI
Mathematical optimization,Nonlinear system,Undo,Identifiability,Algorithm,Nonlinear independent component analysis,Mathematical proof,Deep neural networks,Mathematics
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1905.06642
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Luigi Gresele112.44
Paul Rubenstein2114.28
Arash Mehrjou3135.83
Francesco Locatello42110.12
Bernhard Schölkopf5231203091.82