A Note on the Kullback-Leibler Divergence for the von Mises-Fisher distribution
Machine Learning
2015-02-26 v1
Abstract
We present a derivation of the Kullback Leibler (KL)-Divergence (also known as Relative Entropy) for the von Mises Fisher (VMF) Distribution in -dimensions.
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@article{arxiv.1502.07104,
title = {A Note on the Kullback-Leibler Divergence for the von Mises-Fisher distribution},
author = {Tom Diethe},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.07104},
year = {2015}
}
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