A fixed-point algorithm of topographic ICA

  • Authors:
  • Yoshitatsu Matsuda;Kazunori Yamaguchi

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Integrated Information Technology, Aoyama Gakuin University, Kanagawa, Japan;Department of General Systems Studies, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

  • Venue:
  • ICANN'06 Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Artificial Neural Networks - Volume Part II
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Topographic ICA is a well-known ICA-based technique, which generates a topographic mapping consisting of edge detectors from natural scenes. Topographic ICA uses a complicated criterion derived from a two-layer generative model and minimizes it by a gradient descent algorithm. In this paper, we propose a new simple criterion for topographic ICA and construct a fixed-point algorithm minimizing it. Our algorithm can be regarded as an expansion of the well-known fast ICA algorithm to topographic ICA, and it does not need any tuning of the stepsize. Numerical experiments show that our fixed-point algorithm can generate topographic mappings similar to those in topographic ICA.