Negativity conjecture for the Jensen-Shannon and Kullback-Leibler divergence Jacobian

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Let Ωo={(μ,ν)∈(0,1)×(0,1)∣ν<μ}\Omega^{\mathrm{o}}=\{(\mu,\nu)\in(0,1)\times(0,1)\mid \nu<\mu\} be the interior of Ω\Omega, and let JJ be the Jacobian defined in Eq.. Negativity conjecture. For every (μ,ν)∈Ωo(\mu,\nu)\in\Omega^{\mathrm{o}},

det⁡(J(μ,ν))<0.\det(J(\mu,\nu))<0.

The claim is supported in the paper by a visualization showing the negative of the determinant as positive throughout the stated domain, but no proof or resolution is supplied in the provided text.

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Reuben Dorent, Polina Golland and William Wells, “Connecting Jensen-Shannon and Kullback-Leibler Divergences: A New Bound for Representation Learning”, arXiv:2510.20644 (2026).

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