Proportional Analogies on Probability Distributions via Bayesian Updating

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.11724v1
• Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2026 07:02:43 GMT
• Title: Proportional Analogies on Probability Distributions via Bayesian Updating
• Abstract summary: We introduce a notion of proportional analogy for probability distributions based on Bayesian updating.<n>Our approach builds upon the idea that two distributions are related whenever one can be transformed into the other.<n>We discuss how it naturally extends to arbitrary probability distributions through Gaussian mixture approximations.
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• Abstract: Analogies are quaternary relations of the form "A is to B as C is to D". Among the various formalizations of analogical reasoning, proportional analogies provide an important axiomatic framework by characterizing valid analogies through a set of postulates. While proportional analogies have been extensively studied over Boolean, symbolic, and real-valued domains, their extension to probability distributions remains largely unexplored. In this paper, we introduce a notion of proportional analogy for probability distributions based on Bayesian updating. Our approach builds upon the idea that two distributions are related whenever one can be transformed into the other through Bayesian updating induced by a suitable set of observations. We investigate this framework for several standard members of the exponential family and discuss how it naturally extends to arbitrary probability distributions through Gaussian mixture approximations.

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