We introduce a new version of the KL-divergence for Gaussian distributions which is based on Wasserstein geometry and referred to as WKL-divergence. We show that this version is consistent with the geometry of the sample space \(\mathbb {R}^n\) . In particular, we can evaluate the WKL-divergence of the Dirac measures concentrated in two points which turns out to be proportional to the squared distance between these points.

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Wasserstein KL-Divergence for Gaussian Distributions

  • Adwait Datar,
  • Nihat Ay

摘要

We introduce a new version of the KL-divergence for Gaussian distributions which is based on Wasserstein geometry and referred to as WKL-divergence. We show that this version is consistent with the geometry of the sample space \(\mathbb {R}^n\) . In particular, we can evaluate the WKL-divergence of the Dirac measures concentrated in two points which turns out to be proportional to the squared distance between these points.