KL divergence in exponential families amounts to a Bregman divergence
FrnkNlsn · x · 2026-10-04
Frank Nielsen shares a statistical theory note: for the rich class of exponential family models whose pmf/pdf is written canonically, the KL divergence between two densities amounts to a Bregman divergence.
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