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CORR
2002
Springer
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Sharpening Occam's Razor
Ming Li, John Tromp, Paul M. B. Vitányi
NIPS
2000
13 years 6 months ago
Occam's Razor
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...
Carl Edward Rasmussen, Zoubin Ghahramani
IJCAI
2007
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Occam's Razor Just Got Sharper
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...
Saher Esmeir, Shaul Markovitch
DATAMINE
1999
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The Role of Occam's Razor in Knowledge Discovery
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 (...
Pedro Domingos
ICGA
1993
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Genetic Programming of Minimal Neural Nets Using Occam's Razor
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...
Byoung-Tak Zhang, Heinz Mühlenbein