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We show that the $f$-divergence between any two densities of potentially different location-scale families can be reduced to the calculation of the $f$-divergence between one standard density with another location-scale density. It follows…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-02-16 Frank Nielsen

We give an equivalence-singularity criterion for infinite products of Cauchy measures under simultaneous shifts of the location and scale parameters. Our result is an extension of Lie and Sullivan's result giving an equivalence-singularity…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-01-21 Kazuki Okamura

$f$-divergences are a general class of divergences between probability measures which include as special cases many commonly used divergences in probability, mathematical statistics and information theory such as Kullback-Leibler…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-10-16 Adityanand Guntuboyina , Sujayam Saha , Geoffrey Schiebinger

In this paper we shall consider one parametric generalization of some non-symmetric divergence measures. The \textit{non-symmetric divergence measures} are such as: Kullback-Leibler \textit{relative information}, $\chi…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Pranesh Kumar , Inder Jeet Taneja

We first extend the result of Ali and Silvey [Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B, 28.1 (1966), 131-142] who first reported that any $f$-divergence between two isotropic multivariate Gaussian distributions amounts to a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-01-19 Frank Nielsen , Kazuki Okamura

We report a closed-form expression for the Kullback-Leibler divergence between Cauchy distributions which involves the calculation of a novel definite integral. The formula shows that the Kullback-Leibler divergence between Cauchy densities…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Frédéric Chyzak , Frank Nielsen

$f$-divergences, which quantify discrepancy between probability distributions, are ubiquitous in information theory, machine learning, and statistics. While there are numerous methods for estimating $f$-divergences from data, a limit…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-10-13 Sreejith Sreekumar , Ziv Goldfeld , Kengo Kato

The Jensen-Shannon divergence is a renown bounded symmetrization of the unbounded Kullback-Leibler divergence which measures the total Kullback-Leibler divergence to the average mixture distribution. However the Jensen-Shannon divergence…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Frank Nielsen

Score-matching generative models have proven successful at sampling from complex high-dimensional data distributions. In many applications, this distribution is believed to concentrate on a much lower $d$-dimensional manifold embedded into…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-25 Peter Potaptchik , Iskander Azangulov , George Deligiannidis

In this paper we propose a family of multivariate asymmetric distributions over an arbitrary subset of set of real numbers which is defined in terms of the well-known elliptically symmetric distributions. We explore essential properties,…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-09-02 Roberto Vila , Helton Saulo , Leonardo Santos , João Monteiros , Felipe Quintino

We consider both finite and infinite power chi expansions of $f$-divergences derived from Taylor's expansions of smooth generators, and elaborate on cases where these expansions yield closed-form formula, bounded approximations, or analytic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-15 Frank Nielsen , Gaëtan Hadjeres

We study the Voronoi diagrams of a finite set of Cauchy distributions and their dual complexes from the viewpoint of information geometry by considering the Fisher-Rao distance, the Kullback-Leibler divergence, the chi square divergence,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Frank Nielsen

Divergence measures play a central role and become increasingly essential in deep learning, yet efficient measures for multiple (more than two) distributions are rarely explored. This becomes particularly crucial in areas where the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Mingfei Lu , Chenxu Li , Shujian Yu , Robert Jenssen , Badong Chen

Skew-symmetric densities recently received much attention in the literature, giving rise to increasingly general families of univariate and multivariate skewed densities. Most of those families, however, suffer from the inferential drawback…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-07-03 Marc Hallin , Christophe Ley

Data processing inequalities for $f$-divergences can be sharpened using constants called "contraction coefficients" to produce strong data processing inequalities. For any discrete source-channel pair, the contraction coefficients for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Anuran Makur , Lizhong Zheng

We generalize the family of $\alpha$-divergences using a pair of strictly comparable weighted means. In particular, we obtain the $1$-divergence in the limit case $\alpha\rightarrow 1$ (a generalization of the Kullback-Leibler divergence)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Frank Nielsen

In many applications in biology, engineering and economics, identifying similarities and differences between distributions of data from complex processes requires comparing finite categorical samples of discrete counts. Statistical…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-07-11 Francesco Camaglia , Ilya Nemenman , Thierry Mora , Aleksandra M. Walczak

There are many information and divergence measures exist in the literature on information theory and statistics. The most famous among them are Kullback-Leiber relative information and Jeffreys J-divergence. The measures like, Bhattacharya…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Inder Jeet Taneja

We describe a framework to build distances by measuring the tightness of inequalities, and introduce the notion of proper statistical divergences and improper pseudo-divergences. We then consider the H\"older ordinary and reverse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-04-05 Frank Nielsen , Ke Sun , Stéphane Marchand-Maillet

Mixed $f$-divergences, a concept from information theory and statistics, measure the difference between multiple pairs of distributions. We introduce them for log concave functions and establish some of their properties. Among them are…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-29 Umut Caglar , Elisabeth M. Werner
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