A Note on the Kullback-Leibler Divergence for the von Mises-Fisher distribution

Abstract

We present a derivation of the Kullback Leibler (KL)-Divergence (also known as Relative Entropy) for the von Mises Fisher (VMF) Distribution in d-dimensions.

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