Effect of indirect dependencies on "A mutual information minimization approach for a class of nonlinear recurrent separating systems"

Details Effect of indirect dependencies on "A mutual information minimization approach for a class of nonlinear recurrent separating systems" Effect of indirect dependencies on "A mutual information minimization approach for a class of nonlinear recurrent separating systems"

2009-10-23

arxiv.org/abs/0910.4558v2

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In a recent paper [4], Duarte and Jutten investigated the Blind Source Separation (BSS) problem, for the nonlinear mixing model that they introduced in that paper. They proposed to solve this problem by using information-theoretic tools, more precisely by minimizing the mutual information (MI) of the outputs of the separating structure. When applying the MI approach to BSS problems, one usually determines the analytical expressions of the derivatives of the MI with respect to the parameters of the considered separating model. In the literature, these calculations were mainly reported for linear mixtures up to now. They are more complex for nonlinear mixtures, due to dependencies between the considered quantities. Moreover, the notations commonly employed by the BSS community in such calculations may become misleading when using them for nonlinear mixtures, due to the above-mentioned dependencies. We claim that the calculations reported in [4] contain an error, because they did not take into account all these dependencies. In this document, we therefore explain this phenomenon, by showing the effect of indirect dependencies on the application of the MI approach to the mixing and separating models considered in [4]. We thus introduce a corrected expression of the gradient of the considered BSS criterion based on MI. This correct gradient may then e.g. be used to optimize the adaptive coefficients of the considered separating system by means of the well-known gradient descent algorithm. As explained hereafter, this investigation has some similarities with an analysis that we previously reported in another arXiv document [3]. However, these two investigations concern different problems (mixture and separating structure, mathematical tools: see paper).

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