Tile Pattern KL-Divergence for Analysing and Evolving Game Levels — mentioned by abetusk

Tue, 22 Aug 2023 15:07:40 GMT

Intuitively, it measures the difference between two probability distributions. It's not symmetric, so it's not quite that, but in my opinion, it's good intuition. As motivation, say you're an internet provider, providing internet service to a business. You naturally want to save money, so you perhaps want to compress packets before they go over the wire. Let's say the business you're providing service to also compresses their data, but they've made a mistake and do it inefficiently. Let's say the business has, incorrectly, determined the probability distribution for their data to be $q(x)$.…

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Tile Pattern KL-Divergence for Analysing and Evolving Game Levels — mentioned by abetusk