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cross-entropy

How surprised you'd be by the true distribution, if you believed a guessed distribution instead.

Examples

  • For truth p=(1,0,0) and guess q=(0.7,0.2,0.1), H(p,q)=-\ln(0.7)\approx0.357 nats.

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