Talk:Cross-entropy

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This article uses the notation KL(p, q) and also DKL(p || m) when talking about Kullback-Leibler divergence. Are these notations two ways of expressing the same idea? If so, the article may want to indicate this equivalence.

The log-likelihood of the training data for a multinomial model is the same as the cross-entropy of the data. (Elements of Statistical Learning, page 32)

L(theta) = sum (all classes k) I(G=k) log Pr(G=k | X = x)

I guess "I(G=k)" is p and Pr(G=k | X=x) is q here.

Could somebody in the know please add this? Thanks!

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This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as stub, and the rating on other projects was brought up to Stub class. BetacommandBot 09:46, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

To improve clarity, this stub should be merged into the "Kullback–Leibler divergence" article. "Cross entropy" and "relative entropy" refer to the same quantity in the literature, at least up to a sign convention. DRB (talk) 00:39, 15 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Hmmm... fair idea but not a cut-and-dry case. maybe put a merge tag on it, at least. Kevin Baastalk 14:07, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

What's missing
At least one analogy or example would be most helpful. I get no sense at all as to what this article is attempting to describe. Marc W. Abel (talk) 02:24, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Why is "cross-entropy" not hyphenated in the title of the page?
In the text, "cross-entropy" is written with a hyphen every time (as I believe to be correct). In the title of the page, however, it is not hyphenated. Why is this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thomas Tvileren (talk • contribs) 12:48, 27 May 2022 (UTC)


 * I thought that was odd too. I've moved the page to fix it. &mdash; The Anome (talk) 12:23, 7 August 2023 (UTC)

The last section of the article
A title that's 12 words long seems kind of excessive. Also, it reads somewhat like an informal research paper. Along with the fact that I'm not really an editor, I don't know anything about this topic and so I'm not sure if any edits I make would actually improve it. I also don't know what tags would be helpful to add, if I'm even qualified to do so. Maybe a cleanup or copyedit tag? dr1zzled_d1ce (talk) 19:30, 23 June 2024 (UTC)