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Probl. Peredachi Inf., 2018 Volume 54, Issue 3, Pages 36–53 (Mi ppi2271)

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Information Theory

On some optimization problems for the Rényi divergence

V. V. Prelov

Kharkevich Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Abstract: We consider the problem of determining the maximum and minimum of the Rényi divergence $D_{\lambda}(P\parallel Q)$ and $D_{\lambda}(Q\parallel P)$ for two probability distribution $P$ and $Q$ of discrete random variables $X$ and $Y$ provided that the probability distribution $P$ and the parameter $\alpha$ of $\alpha$-coupling between $X$ and $Y$ are fixed, i.e., provided that $\mathrm{Pr}\{X=Y\}=\alpha$.

UDC: 621.391.1:519.72

Received: 07.12.2017


 English version:
Problems of Information Transmission, 2018, 54:3, 229–244

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