How to calculate and visualize the Kullback-Leibler divergence using python ?

Published: February 21, 2019

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An example of how to calculate and visualize Kullback-Leibler divergence using python:

How to calculate and visualize Kullback-Leibler divergence using python ?
How to calculate and visualize Kullback-Leibler divergence using python ?

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.mlab as mlab

from scipy.stats import norm
from scipy.integrate import quad

def p(x):
    return norm.pdf(x, 0, 2)

def q(x):
    return norm.pdf(x, 2, 2)

def KL(x):
    return p(x) * np.log( p(x) / q(x) )

range = np.arange(-10, 10, 0.001)

KL_int, err = quad(KL, -10, 10) 
print( 'KL: ', KL_int )

fig = plt.figure(figsize=(18, 8), dpi=100)

#---------- First Plot

ax = fig.add_subplot(1,2,1)
ax.grid(True)
ax.spines['left'].set_position('zero')
ax.spines['right'].set_color('none')
ax.spines['bottom'].set_position('zero')
ax.spines['top'].set_color('none')
ax.set_xlim(-10,10)
ax.set_ylim(-0.1,0.25)

ax.text(-2.5, 0.17, 'p(x)', horizontalalignment='center',fontsize=17)
ax.text(4.5, 0.17, 'q(x)', horizontalalignment='center',fontsize=17)

plt.plot(range, p(range))
plt.plot(range, q(range))

#---------- Second Plot

ax = fig.add_subplot(1,2,2)
ax.grid(True)
ax.spines['left'].set_position('zero')
ax.spines['right'].set_color('none')
ax.spines['bottom'].set_position('zero')
ax.spines['top'].set_color('none')
ax.set_xlim(-10,10)
ax.set_ylim(-0.1,0.25)

ax.text(3.5, 0.17, r'$DK_{KL}(p||q)$', horizontalalignment='center',fontsize=17)

ax.plot(range, KL(range))

ax.fill_between(range, 0, KL(range))

plt.savefig('KullbackLeibler.png',bbox_inches='tight')
plt.show()

References

Links Site
Lien (externe) 1 Kullback–Leibler divergence
Lien (externe) 2 Divergence de Kullback-Leibler
Lien (externe) 3 stackoverflow question: plot-normal-distribution
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