Paper ID: 2111.08357

A first approach to closeness distributions

Jesus Cerquides

Probabilistic graphical models allow us to encode a large probability distribution as a composition of smaller ones. It is oftentimes the case that we are interested in incorporating in the model the idea that some of these smaller distributions are likely to be similar to one another. In this paper we provide an information geometric approach on how to incorporate this information, and see that it allows us to reinterpret some already existing models.

Submitted: Nov 16, 2021