MLFeb 25, 2015
A Note on the Kullback-Leibler Divergence for the von Mises-Fisher distribution
arXiv:1502.07104v113 citations
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This is an incremental theoretical contribution for researchers working with directional statistics and probability distributions.
The paper derived the Kullback-Leibler divergence for the von Mises-Fisher distribution in d-dimensions, providing a mathematical formulation for this statistical measure.
We present a derivation of the Kullback Leibler (KL)-Divergence (also known as Relative Entropy) for the von Mises Fisher (VMF) Distribution in $d$-dimensions.