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New inequalities clarify Gaussian mixture distance relationships

Researchers have established new inequalities that precisely define the relationship between total variation and Hellinger distances for Gaussian mixtures. Their findings provide a general upper bound, showing the Hellinger distance is controlled by the total variation distance raised to a power. This work resolves an open problem in the field and offers an entropic characterization for learning Gaussian mixtures, with implications for robust estimation and empirical Bayes methods. AI

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  1. arXiv stat.ML TIER_1 English(EN) · Joonhyuk Jung, Chao Gao ·

    Sharp Inequalities between Total Variation and Hellinger Distances for Gaussian Mixtures

    arXiv:2602.03202v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study the relation between the total variation (TV) and Hellinger distances between two Gaussian location mixtures. Our first result establishes a general upper bound: for any two mixing distributions supported on a com…