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by sansseriff 23 days ago
It has applications outside of machine learning too! I used symmetric Kullback–Leibler divergence for a project with photon number resolving single photon detectors during my PhD. I used it with an adjacency matrix to split a gaussian mixture model (modelling some data with multivariate gaussians) into a series of clusters.

https://snsphd.online/chapter_04/section_05_results/#photon-...