[PRE REVIEW]: pamica: GPU-accelerated Adaptive Mixture Independent Component Analysis in Python with Fortran parity

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Submitting author: @neuromechanist (Seyed Yahya Shirazi)
Repository: https://github.com/sccn/pAMICA
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Reference check summary (note 'MISSING' DOIs are suggestions that need verification):

✅ OK DOIs

- 10.1371/journal.pone.0030135 is OK
- 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2003.10.009 is OK
- 10.1162/neco.1995.7.6.1129 is OK
- 10.1162/089976699300016719 is OK
- 10.1016/S0893-6080(00)00026-5 is OK
- 10.1109/TSP.2018.2844203 is OK
- 10.3389/fnins.2013.00267 is OK
- 10.1038/s41586-020-2649-2 is OK
- 10.1038/s41592-019-0686-2 is OK
- 10.1162/089976698300017746 is OK
- 10.1109/ICASSP.2008.4517982 is OK
- 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.05.026 is OK
- 10.1109/BIBE60311.2023.00040 is OK
- 10.1109/NER61569.2025.11588993 is OK

🟡 SKIP DOIs

- No DOI given, and none found for title: AMICA: An adaptive mixture of independent componen...
- No DOI given, and none found for title: Independent component analysis of electroencephalo...
- No DOI given, and none found for title: Independent component analysis for identification ...
- No DOI given, and none found for title: PyTorch: An imperative style, high-performance dee...
- No DOI given, and none found for title: A new learning algorithm for blind signal separati...
- No DOI given, and none found for title: amica: Native Python implementation of AMICA for M...
- No DOI given, and none found for title: pyamica: PyTorch AMICA, Adaptive Mixture Independe...
- No DOI given, and none found for title: MLX: Efficient and flexible machine learning on Ap...

❌ MISSING DOIs

- 10.1007/978-3-319-62657-4_8-1 may be a valid DOI for title: MEG/EEG data analysis using EEGLAB

❌ INVALID DOIs

- None

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Repository Analysis Report

Code breakdown

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Commit Count by Author

113	Seyed Yahya Shirazi
    82	Seyed (Yahya) Shirazi

Repository History

Repository age: First commit on November 27, 2021

Code distribution (top 3 48-hour windows):

Period	Insertions	% of Total	Signal	View Changes
Jul 16, 2026 - Jul 18, 2026	39681	34.1%	🟡	View diff
Jul 01, 2026 - Jul 03, 2026	25300	21.8%	🟢	View diff
Jul 06, 2026 - Jul 08, 2026	17940	15.4%	🟢	View diff

GitHub Activity Metrics

Metric	Count
GitHub stars	7
Forks	2
GitHub contributors	1
Releases	7
Total issues	102
Total pull requests	104
Unique commenters/reviewers (excluding authors)	2

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Paper file info:

📄 Wordcount for paper.md is 1731

✅ The paper includes a Statement of need section

✅ The paper includes a State of the field section

🔴 Failed to discover a Software design section in paper

🔴 Failed to discover a Research impact statement section in paper

🔴 Failed to discover an AI usage disclosure section in paper

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License info:

✅ License found: BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License (Valid open source OSI approved license)

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