REGO: Rank-based Estimation of Renyi Information using Euclidean Graph Optimization

نویسندگان

  • Barnabás Póczos
  • Sergey Kirshner
  • Csaba Szepesvári
چکیده

We propose a new method for a nonparametric estimation of Rényi and Shannon information for a multivariate distribution using a corresponding copula, a multivariate distribution over normalized ranks of the data. As the information of the distribution is the same as the negative entropy of its copula, our method estimates this information by solving a Euclidean graph optimization problem on the empirical estimate of the distribution’s copula. Owing to the properties of the copula, we show that the resulting estimator of Rényi information is strongly consistent and robust. Further, we demonstrate its applicability in image registration in addition to simulated experiments.

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تاریخ انتشار 2010