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What is Kullback-Leibler Distance

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Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Third Edition
An information-theoretic measure (also known as relative entropy) used to analytically define the distance between two arbitrary probability distributions. It should be noticed that while the Kullback-Leibler distance is not symmetrical, it is still an additive quantity.
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Stochastic Neural Network Classifiers
Eitan Gross (University of Arkansas, USA)
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 10
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-5888-2.ch026
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