进一步,在文献<ref name=GJS_divergence>{{cite journal|author=Jianhua Lin|title=Divergence Measures Based on the Shannon Entropy|journal=IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION THEORY|volume=37|issue=1|page=145-151|year=1991}}</ref>中,作者提出了[[广义的JS散度]]为:
在文献<ref name=GJSD>{{cite conference|author1=Erik Englesson|author2=Hossein Azizpour|title=Generalized Jensen-Shannon Divergence Loss for Learning with Noisy Labels|conference=35th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2021)|year=2021}}</ref>中,作者们讨论了广义JS散度在分类多样性度量方面的应用。因此,EI也可以理解为是对行向量多样化程度的一种度量。