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Kullback–Leibler divergence

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Kullback-Leibler divergence, often abbreviated as KL divergence, is a measure from information theory that quantifies how one probability distribution diverges from a second, expected probability distribution. It is particularly useful in various fields such as statistics, machine learning, and information theory.

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Kullback-Leibler divergence by Codex  0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
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For probability densities p and q, the Kullback-Leibler divergence from q to p is
DKL​(p∥q)=Ep​[logq(X)p(X)​].
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