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I derived a lower bound which only depends on moments (e.g. mean and variance).

Even if the true distribution is unkown, we can calculate the lower bound (approximation) of the KL-divergence using only the expected value and the variance of a function we choose.

Please see Theorem 1 in the following paper.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.00288

URL of a sample code for this paper is

https://github.com/nissy220/KL_divergence

Please confirm the results. In the left graph, the red line is the result of our lower bound and the blue line is the KL-divergence for the normal distribution.

In the left graph, the red line is the result of our lower bound and the blue line is the KL-divergence for the normal distribution.

The right graph displays the ratio.

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