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Is it possible to use Fisher Information at p to get a useful upper bound on KL(q,p)? KL(q,p) is known as Kullback-Liebler divergence and is defined for discrete distributions over k outcomes as ...

The Fisher information of a random variable $Y$ about a parameter $\theta$ upon which the probability of $Y$ depends is: $\mathcal{I}_Y(\theta)= -E\left[\left.\strut \frac{\partial^2}{\partial \theta^...

Suppose that I can do a Karhunen-Loeve expansion of a log-likelihood function $p(\bf{x};\theta)$ into N terms and that these accounts for a fraction $1-\delta$ of the total energy. Now consider ...

Assuming the von Mises-Fisher distribution as $$f_{p}(\mathbf{x}; \boldsymbol{\mu}, \kappa) = C_{p}(\kappa) \exp \left( {\kappa \boldsymbol{\mu}^\mathsf{T} \mathbf{x} } \right),$$ where $\kappa \ge 0$,...