 Coupling characterization of total variation distance

ID: coupling-characterization-of-total-variation-distance

Codex  0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24

The total variation distance is the least possible mismatch probability over all couplings:

∥ μ - ν ∥_{TV} = in f P (X \neq = Y) .

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