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NIPS
2000
13 years 6 months ago
2000
The Bayesian paradigm apparently only sometimes gives rise to Occam's Razor; at other times very large models perform well. We give simple examples of both kinds of behaviour...
IJCAI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
2007
Occam’s razor is the principle that, given two hypotheses consistent with the observed data, the simpler one should be preferred. Many machine learning algorithms follow this pr...
DATAMINE
1999
13 years 4 months ago
1999
Many KDD systems incorporate an implicit or explicit preference for simpler models, but this use of "Occam's razor" has been strongly criticized by several authors (...
ICGA
1993
13 years 6 months ago
1993
A genetic programming method is investigated for optimizing both the architecture and the connection weights of multilayer feedforward neural networks. The genotype of each networ...
TROB
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
We present a method for inferring the topology of a sensor network given nondiscriminating observations of activity in the monitored region. This is accomplished based on no prior ...