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61 jmlr-2009-Nonextensive Information Theoretic Kernels on Measures


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Author: André F. T. Martins, Noah A. Smith, Eric P. Xing, Pedro M. Q. Aguiar, Mário A. T. Figueiredo

Abstract: Positive definite kernels on probability measures have been recently applied to classification problems involving text, images, and other types of structured data. Some of these kernels are related to classic information theoretic quantities, such as (Shannon’s) mutual information and the JensenShannon (JS) divergence. Meanwhile, there have been recent advances in nonextensive generalizations of Shannon’s information theory. This paper bridges these two trends by introducing nonextensive information theoretic kernels on probability measures, based on new JS-type divergences. These new divergences result from extending the the two building blocks of the classical JS divergence: convexity and Shannon’s entropy. The notion of convexity is extended to the wider concept of q-convexity, for which we prove a Jensen q-inequality. Based on this inequality, we introduce Jensen-Tsallis (JT) q-differences, a nonextensive generalization of the JS divergence, and define a k-th order JT q-difference between stochastic processes. We then define a new family of nonextensive mutual information kernels, which allow weights to be assigned to their arguments, and which includes the Boolean, JS, and linear kernels as particular cases. Nonextensive string kernels are also defined that generalize the p-spectrum kernel. We illustrate the performance of these kernels on text categorization tasks, in which documents are modeled both as bags of words and as sequences of characters. Keywords: positive definite kernels, nonextensive information theory, Tsallis entropy, JensenShannon divergence, string kernels ∗. Earlier versions of this work appeared in Martins et al. (2008a) and Martins et al. (2008b). †. Also at Instituto de Telecomunicacoes, Instituto Superior T´ cnico, Lisboa, Portugal. ¸˜ e c 2009 Andr´ F. T. Martins, Noah A. Smith, Eric P. Xing, Pedro M. Q. Aguiar and M´ rio A. T. Figueiredo. e a M ARTINS , S MITH , X ING , AGUIAR AND F IGUEIREDO


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