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In this paper we provide an asymptotic theory for the symmetric version of the Kullback--Leibler (KL) divergence. We define a estimator for this divergence and study its asymptotic properties. In particular, we prove Law of Large Numbers…

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In the last decade, recent successes in deep clustering majorly involved the Mutual Information (MI) as an unsupervised objective for training neural networks with increasing regularisations. While the quality of the regularisations have…

We propose a closed-form spectral framework for relative log-density estimation in linearly parameterized probabilistic models, including unnormalized and conditional models. This is achieved by representing the Kullback-Leibler (KL)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Francis Bach

The problem of filtering information from large correlation matrices is of great importance in many applications. We have recently proposed the use of the Kullback-Leibler distance to measure the performance of filtering algorithms in…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2008-12-02 M. Tumminello , F. Lillo , R. N. Mantegna

We study quasilinear elliptic double obstacle problems with a variable exponent growth when the right-hand side is a measure. A global Calder\'{o}n-Zygmund estimate for the gradient of an approximable solution is obtained in terms of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-25 Sun-Sig Byun , Yumi Cho , Jung-Tae Park

In this note, we characterize the Gompertz distribution in terms of extreme value distributions and point out that it implicitly models the interplay of two antagonistic growth processes. In addition, we derive a closed form expressions for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-14 Christian Bauckhage

We study the problem of characterizing the stability of Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence under Gaussian perturbations beyond Gaussian families. Existing relaxed triangle inequalities for KL divergence critically rely on the assumption that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Jialu Pan , Yufeng Zhang , Nan Hu , Zhenbang Chen , Ji Wang , Keqin Li

This archiving article consists of several short reports on the discussions between the two authors over the past two years at Oxford and Madrid, and their work carried out during that period on the upper bound of the Kullback-Leibler…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Min Chen , Mateu Sbert

In this survey we present an extensive research of the vast literature about the Generalized Lambda Distribution (GLD) and propose a hurdle, or two-way, model whose associated distribution is the GLD in order to meet the demand for a highly…

Applications · Statistics 2019-01-04 Diego Marcondes , Cláudia Peixoto , Ana Carolina Maia

Comparing probability distributions is an indispensable and ubiquitous task in machine learning and statistics. The most common way to compare a pair of Borel probability measures is to compute a metric between them, and by far the most…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-02-01 Yuhang Cai , Lek-Heng Lim

The capability of a novel Kullback-Leibler divergence method is examined herein within the Kalman filter framework to select the input-parameter-state estimation execution with the most plausible results. This identification suffers from…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-05 Marios Impraimakis

Tsallis and R\'{e}nyi entropies, which are monotone transformations of each other, are deformations of the celebrated Shannon entropy. Maximization of these deformed entropies, under suitable constraints, leads to the $q$-exponential family…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-01-14 Ting-Kam Leonard Wong , Jun Zhang

Classical and quantum Tsallis distributions have been widely used in many branches of natural and social sciences. But, the quantum field theory of the Tsallis distributions is relatively a less explored arena. In this article we derive the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-07 Mahfuzur Rahaman , Trambak Bhattacharyya , Jan-e Alam

With the progress of information technology, large amounts of asymmetric, leptokurtic and heavy-tailed data are arising in various fields, such as finance, engineering, genetics and medicine. It is very challenging to model those kinds of…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-01-26 Chengdi Lian , Yaohua Rong , Weihu Cheng

We propose a method to fuse posterior distributions learned from heterogeneous datasets. Our algorithm relies on a mean field assumption for both the fused model and the individual dataset posteriors and proceeds using a simple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Sebastian Claici , Mikhail Yurochkin , Soumya Ghosh , Justin Solomon

In this letter, we address the relationship between the statistical fluctuations of grain displacements for a full quasistatic plane shear experiment, and the corresponding anomalous diffusion exponent, $\alpha$. We experimentally validate…

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This article is devoted to the study of overlap measures of densities of two exponential populations. Various Overlapping Coefficients, namely: Matusita's measure $\rho$, Morisita's measure $\lambda$ and Weitzman's measure $\Delta$. A new…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-04-11 Hamza Dhaker , Papa Ngom , Malick Mbodj

Segregation is a multi-scale phenomenon that requires careful measurement. A segregation index implicitly defines how the demographic compositions of locations are compared. We identify two properties -- mean-minimisation and invariance --…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-03-17 Rohit Sahasrabuddhe , Renaud Lambiotte

We investigate connections between information-theoretic and estimation-theoretic quantities in vector Poisson channel models. In particular, we generalize the gradient of mutual information with respect to key system parameters from the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-10 Liming Wang , Miguel Rodrigues , Lawrence Carin

We introduce a generalized formulation of mutual information (MI) based on the extended Bregman divergence, a framework that subsumes the generalized S-Bregman (GSB) divergence family. The GSB divergence unifies two important classes of…

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