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On $f$-Divergences: Integral Representations, Local Behavior, and Inequalities

Information Theory 2018-07-04 v3 math.IT Probability

Abstract

This paper is focused on ff-divergences, consisting of three main contributions. The first one introduces integral representations of a general ff-divergence by means of the relative information spectrum. The second part provides a new approach for the derivation of ff-divergence inequalities, and it exemplifies their utility in the setup of Bayesian binary hypothesis testing. The last part of this paper further studies the local behavior of ff-divergences.

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@article{arxiv.1804.06334,
  title  = {On $f$-Divergences: Integral Representations, Local Behavior, and Inequalities},
  author = {Igal Sason},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.06334},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

Final edits before publication. To appear in the Entropy journal, special issue on Entropy and Information Inequalities, May 2018