• 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    Geoffrey Hinton (category Articles with short description)
    publications indexed by Google Scholar Zemel, Richard Stanley (1994). A minimum description length framework for unsupervised learning (PhD thesis). University of...
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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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  • Algorithmic information theory (category Articles with short description)
    complexity – Measure of algorithmic complexity Minimum description length – Model selection principle Minimum message length – Formal information theory restatement...
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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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    minimum wage (US$) rate by 52 weeks and then by the length of the standard hour workweek. Hourly wages were calculated by dividing the annual minimum...
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  • Complexity (category Articles with short description)
    images that can avoid measuring noise as complex by using the minimum description length principle. There has also been interest in measuring the complexity...
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    Helmholtz free energy (category Articles with short description)
    function for training auto-encoder based on the minimum description length (MDL) principle". "The description length of an input vector using a particular code...
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  • Autoencoder (category Articles with short description)
    ISSN 0098-1354. Hinton, Geoffrey E; Zemel, Richard (1993). "Autoencoders, Minimum Description Length and Helmholtz Free Energy". Advances in Neural Information Processing...
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    Image segmentation (category Articles with short description)
    coding length it attains. Texture is encoded by lossy compression in a way similar to minimum description length (MDL) principle, but here the length of the...
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  • Bayesian information criterion (category Articles with short description)
    of parameters in the model. It is approximately equal to the minimum description length criterion but with negative sign. It can be used to choose the...
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  • information matrix Likelihood-ratio test Mallows's Cp Minimum description length Minimum message length (MML) PRESS statistic, also known as the PRESS criterion...
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    Learning (category Articles with short description)
    Scientific study of digital information Minimum description length – Model selection principle Minimum message length – Formal information theory restatement...
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    A minimum spanning tree (MST) or minimum weight spanning tree is a subset of the edges of a connected, edge-weighted undirected graph that connects all...
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  • Bayesian network (category Articles with short description)
    (2005). "Minimum Message Length and Generalized Bayesian Nets with Asymmetric Languages". In Grünwald PD, Myung IJ, Pitt MA (eds.). Advances in Minimum Description...
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  • Computational complexity theory Inductive inference Minimum message length Minimum description length Schmidhuber, J. (2002) The Speed Prior: A New Simplicity...
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  • MDLP (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
    Program, a distance learning program based in Mesa, Arizona. Minimum description length principle This disambiguation page lists articles associated with...
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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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  • Inductive reasoning (category Articles with short description)
    Logical reasoning Logical positivism Marcus Hutter Minimum description length Minimum message length New riddle of induction Open world assumption Plausible...
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  • Solomonoff's theory of inductive inference (category Articles with short description)
    Inductive inference Inductive probability Mill's methods Minimum description length Minimum message length For a philosophical viewpoint, see: Problem of induction...
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  • Bayes factor (category Articles with short description)
    value or cost of each model choice; to use minimum message length (MML). to use minimum description length (MDL). A value of K > 1 means that M1 is more...
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  • Steven; Grünwald, Peter D. (2011), "LUCKINESS AND REGRET IN MINIMUM DESCRIPTION LENGTH INFERENCE", Philosophy of Statistics (1st ed.), Elsevier, p. 875...
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  • Feature selection (category Articles with short description)
    n {\displaystyle {\sqrt {\log {n}}}} for each added feature, minimum description length (MDL) which asymptotically uses log ⁡ n {\displaystyle {\sqrt...
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  • MDL (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
    Microsoft Design Language, a design language created by Microsoft Minimum description length, a principle for inductive inference in information theory Mazagon...
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