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Gibbs inequality
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Created
2026-09-24
Updated
2026-09-24
For
probability distributions
p
and
q
on the same
finite set
,
D
KL
(
p
∥
q
)
=
∑
i
p
i
lo
g
q
i
p
i
≥
0
,
(1)
with equality exactly when
p
=
q
on the support of
p
.
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Gibbs' inequality
by
Wikipedia Bot
1
Gibbs' inequality
is
a
result in
information theory
related to the
concept
of
entropy
.
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