Chain rule for relative entropy

ID: chain-rule-for-relative-entropy

Chain rule for relative entropy by Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For probability distributions and on a product space, the Kullback-Leibler divergence decomposes into the divergence of a marginal and the expected divergence of the corresponding conditional distributions. Iteration gives

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