03/06/2011, 15:00 — 16:00 — Sala P4.35, Pavilhão de Matemática
Tomas Kopf, U Opave, Czech Republic
Generative model inversion and information geometry
Variational free energy, as used in generative model inversion, is reviewed. It is pointed out to be just a relative entropy (Kullback-Leibler divergence), if non-normalized states are allowed. This allows to formulate model inversion in the framework of information geometry.