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| Oct 10, 2019 at 20:00 | comment | added | meh | It's worth noting that KL is typically called divergence and not metric because it is not symmetric ! | |
| S Oct 8, 2019 at 11:53 | history | suggested | Ivo Merchiers | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 3, 2010 at 21:41 | comment | added | marc | In evolutionary game theory the Fisher information metric is called the Shahshahani metric. See "Evolutionary Game Theory" by Hofbauer and Sigmund. The information divergence can be used to give a Lyapunov function for the replicator equation. I believe this goes back to Akin; others use an exponentiated form (e.g. Hofbauer and Sigmund). | |
| Apr 30, 2010 at 22:23 | comment | added | Suresh Venkat | I'd be interested in references to the work in evolutionary game theory. As an aside, the KL divergence is used extensively in machine learning, as well as in computer vision and (to a degree) in information retrieval. | |
| Apr 30, 2010 at 19:56 | history | answered | marc | CC BY-SA 2.5 |