The {\alpha}-divergences associated with a pair of strictly comparable quasi-arithmetic means
Abstract
We generalize the family of -divergences using a pair of strictly comparable weighted means. In particular, we obtain the -divergence in the limit case (a generalization of the Kullback-Leibler divergence) and the -divergence in the limit case (a generalization of the reverse Kullback-Leibler divergence). We state the condition for a pair of quasi-arithmetic means to be strictly comparable, and report the formula for the quasi-arithmetic -divergences and its subfamily of bipower homogeneous -divergences which belong to the Csis\'ar's -divergences. Finally, we show that these generalized quasi-arithmetic -divergences and -divergences can be decomposed as the sum of generalized cross-entropies minus entropies, and rewritten as conformal Bregman divergences using monotone embeddings.
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@article{arxiv.2001.09660,
title = {The {\alpha}-divergences associated with a pair of strictly comparable quasi-arithmetic means},
author = {Frank Nielsen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.09660},
year = {2022}
}
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18 pages