ITLGMar 14, 2019

On power chi expansions of $f$-divergences

arXiv:1903.05818v12 citations
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This work provides theoretical tools for analyzing f-divergences in statistics and machine learning, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing expansion methods.

The paper tackles the problem of deriving power chi expansions for f-divergences using Taylor expansions of smooth generators, resulting in closed-form formulas, bounded approximations, or analytic series expressions for these divergences.

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 divergence series expressions of $f$-divergences.

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