Two Rényi-type generalizations of the Shannon cross-entropy, the Rényi cross-entropy and the Natural Rényi cross-entropy, were recently used as loss functions for the improved design of deep learning generative adversarial networks. In this work, we derive the Rényi and Natural Rényi differential cross-entropy measures in closed form for a wide class of common continuous distributions belonging to the exponential family, and we tabulate the results for ease of reference. We also summarise the Rényi-type cross-entropy rates between stationary Gaussian processes and between finite-alphabet time-invariant Markov sources.
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