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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 dd-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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