Independent component analysis, a survey of some algebraic methods

The source separation problem has been addressed in many ways during the last decade, and one of its instances gave birth to Independent Component Analysis (ICA). Iterative methods can be opposed to algebraic ones for the computation of the ICA, and seem to reveal very interesting research tracks. This paper attempts to give an outline of some of the works that have been carried out in the latter area, without pretending to survey exhaustively or objectively the subject. Bibliographical pointers hopefully compensate for this drawback.