Minimum Description Length (MDL) is a model selection principle where the shortest description of the data is the best model. MDL methods learn through...
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Minimum message length (MML) is a Bayesian information-theoretic method for statistical model comparison and selection. It provides a formal information...
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Jeffreys prior (category Articles with short description)
In the minimum description length approach to statistics the goal is to describe data as compactly as possible where the length of a description is measured...
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Occam's razor (category Articles with short description)
Design principle preferring simplicity Minimum description length – Model selection principle Minimum message length – Formal information theory restatement...
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Statistical inference (category Articles with short description)
goodness of fit of the model and the simplicity of the model.) The minimum description length (MDL) principle has been developed from ideas in information theory...
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Nat (unit) (category Articles with short description)
the term nit in conjunction with minimum message length, which was subsequently changed by the minimum description length community to nat to avoid confusion...
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Kolmogorov complexity (category Articles with short description)
Dowe's Minimum Message Length (MML) and Occam's razor pages. Grunwald, P.; Pitt, M.A. (2005). Myung, I. J. (ed.). Advances in Minimum Description Length: Theory...
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Inductive bias (category Articles with short description)
boundaries. Minimum description length: when forming a hypothesis, attempt to minimize the length of the description of the hypothesis. Minimum features:...
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Symbolic regression (category Articles with short description)
single objective by means of a model selection principle such as minimum description length. It has been proven that symbolic regression is an NP-hard problem...
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Jorma Rissanen (category Articles with short description)
2020) was an information theorist, known for originating the minimum description length (MDL) principle and practical approaches to arithmetic coding...
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