ASyntacticJustificationofOccamsRazor.pptVIP

A Syntactic Justification ofOccam’s Razor * John Woodward, Andy Evans, Paul Dempster Foundations of Reasoning Group University of Nottingham Ningbo, China 宁波诺丁汉大学 Email: andy.evans@nottingham.edu.cnjohn.woodward@nottingham.edu.cnpaul.dempster@nottingham.edu.cn Overview Occam’s Razor Sampling of Program Spaces (Langdon) Definitions Assumptions Proof Further Work Context * Occam’s Razor Occam’s Razor says has been adopted by the machine learning community to mean; “Given two hypotheses which agree with the observed data, pick the simplest, as this is more likely to make the correct predictions”