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first hg version after svn
author wolffd
date Tue, 10 Feb 2015 15:05:51 +0000
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wolffd@0 1 function kl = cross_entropy(p, q, symmetric)
wolffd@0 2 % CROSS_ENTROPY Compute the Kullback-Leibler divergence between two discrete prob. distributions
wolffd@0 3 % kl = cross_entropy(p, q, symmetric)
wolffd@0 4 %
wolffd@0 5 % If symmetric = 1, we compute the symmetric version. Default: symmetric = 0;
wolffd@0 6
wolffd@0 7 tiny = exp(-700);
wolffd@0 8 if nargin < 3, symmetric = 0; end
wolffd@0 9 p = p(:);
wolffd@0 10 q = q(:);
wolffd@0 11 if symmetric
wolffd@0 12 kl = (sum(p .* log((p+tiny)./(q+tiny))) + sum(q .* log((q+tiny)./(p+tiny))))/2;
wolffd@0 13 else
wolffd@0 14 kl = sum(p .* log((p+tiny)./(q+tiny)));
wolffd@0 15 end