mutual information is the Kullback–Leibler divergence of the product of the marginal distributions, 𝑝𝑋⋅𝑝𝑌, from the joint distribution 𝑝(𝑋,𝑌), that is, | mutual information is the Kullback–Leibler divergence of the product of the marginal distributions, 𝑝𝑋⋅𝑝𝑌, from the joint distribution 𝑝(𝑋,𝑌), that is, |