Independent mechanism analysis, a new concept?

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2106.05200v1
• Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2021 16:45:00 GMT
• Title: Independent mechanism analysis, a new concept?
• Authors: Luigi Gresele, Julius von K\"ugelgen, Vincent Stimper, Bernhard Sch\"olkopf, Michel Besserve
• Abstract summary: Identifiability can be recovered in settings where additional, typically observed variables are included in the generative process. We provide theoretical and empirical evidence that our approach circumvents a number of nonidentifiability issues arising in nonlinear blind source separation.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Independent component analysis provides a principled framework for unsupervised representation learning, with solid theory on the identifiability of the latent code that generated the data, given only observations of mixtures thereof. Unfortunately, when the mixing is nonlinear, the model is provably nonidentifiable, since statistical independence alone does not sufficiently constrain the problem. Identifiability can be recovered in settings where additional, typically observed variables are included in the generative process. We investigate an alternative path and consider instead including assumptions reflecting the principle of independent causal mechanisms exploited in the field of causality. Specifically, our approach is motivated by thinking of each source as independently influencing the mixing process. This gives rise to a framework which we term independent mechanism analysis. We provide theoretical and empirical evidence that our approach circumvents a number of nonidentifiability issues arising in nonlinear blind source separation.

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