@TECHREPORT\{IMM2006-04822, author = "A. B. Nielsen and L. K. Hansen", title = "Structure Learning by Pruning in Independent Component Analysis", year = "2006", month = "sep", keywords = "Independent component analysis, pruning, sparsity,", number = "", series = "", institution = "", address = "", type = "", url = "http://www2.compute.dtu.dk/pubdb/pubs/4822-full.html", abstract = "We discuss pruning as a means of structure learning in independent component analysis. Sparse models are attractive in both signal processing and in analysis of abstract data, they can assist model interpretation, generalizability and reduce computation. We derive the relevant saliency expressions and compare with magnitude based pruning and Bayesian sparsification. We show in simulations that pruning is able to identify underlying sparse structures without prior knowledge on the degree of sparsity. We find that for {ICA} magnitude based pruning is as efficient as saliency based methods and Bayesian methods, for both small and large samples. The Bayesian information criterion (BIC) seems to outperform both {AIC} and test sets as tools for determining the optimal degree of sparsity." }