Information geometry and Plefka’s mean-field theory

Bhattacharyya, C and Keerthi, Sathiya S (2000) Information geometry and Plefka’s mean-field theory. In: Journal of Physics A : Mathematical and General, 33 (7). pp. 1307-1312.

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Abstract

An alternate derivation of Plefka’s method is presented which is obtained from minimizing Gibbs energy. It is shown that this method can be rederived using a perturbation expansion of Kullback–Leibler divergence, the latter having a nice information geometric interpretation.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Journal of Physics A : Mathematical and General
Publisher:	Institute of Physics
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to Institute of Physics.
Department/Centre:	Division of Electrical Sciences > Computer Science & Automation
Date Deposited:	02 Aug 2006
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 04:30
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/7978

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