Global convergence analysis of a discrete time nonnegative ICA algorithm

  • Authors:
  • Mao Ye

  • Affiliations:
  • Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Univ. of Electron. Sci. & Technol. of China, Chengdu, China

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
  • Year:
  • 2006

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.01

Visualization

Abstract

When the independent sources are known to be nonnegative and well-grounded, which means that they have a nonzero pdf in the region of zero, Oja and Plumbley have proposed a "Nonnegative principal component analysis (PCA)" algorithm to separate these positive sources. Generally, it is very difficult to prove the convergence of a discrete-time independent component analysis (ICA) learning algorithm. However, by using the skew-symmetry property of this discrete-time "Nonnegative PCA" algorithm, if the learning rate satisfies suitable condition, the global convergence of this discrete-time algorithm can be proven. Simulation results are employed to further illustrate the advantages of this theory.