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| author | Gagne, Nicolas Panangaden, Prakash |
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| contents | We give a categorical treatment, in the spirit of Baez and Fritz, of relative entropy for probability distributions defined on standard Borel spaces. We define a category suitable for reasoning about statistical inference on standard Borel spaces. We define relative entropy as a functor into Lawvere's category and we show convexity, lower semicontinuity and uniqueness. |
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| institution | arXiv |
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| spellingShingle | A categorical characterization of relative entropy on standard Borel spaces Gagne, Nicolas Panangaden, Prakash Information Theory We give a categorical treatment, in the spirit of Baez and Fritz, of relative entropy for probability distributions defined on standard Borel spaces. We define a category suitable for reasoning about statistical inference on standard Borel spaces. We define relative entropy as a functor into Lawvere's category and we show convexity, lower semicontinuity and uniqueness. |
| title | A categorical characterization of relative entropy on standard Borel spaces |
| topic | Information Theory |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.08853 |