Minimum encoding modeling

Table of Contents

Minimum encoding modeling

Intuitive description

On modeling

The idea

Channel, compression and Alice & Bob

An example problem

Ockham’s Razor

Class example

Minimum encoding classification

What are the consequences?

Minimum encoding vs. Bayes theorem

Why should a model providing a short encoding be a good predictor?

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