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Probabilistic Machine Learning: Advanced Topics
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Version 2023-08-15, 26.2.3, table 26.2. wrong optimal critic for Pearson divergence #316

Closed yuanzhi-zhu closed 3 months ago

yuanzhi-zhu commented 5 months ago

The optimal critic for Pearson divergence should be $2 (r(x) -1)$, while the current expression is for Squared Hellinger divergence.

murphyk commented 3 months ago

fixed, thx