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TIT
1998
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The Minimum Description Length Principle in Coding and Modeling
—We review the principles of Minimum Description Length and Stochastic Complexity as used in data compression and statistical modeling. Stochastic complexity is formulated as the...
Andrew R. Barron, Jorma Rissanen, Bin Yu
NN
2006
Springer
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The asymptotic equipartition property in reinforcement learning and its relation to return maximization
We discuss an important property called the asymptotic equipartition property on empirical sequences in reinforcement learning. This states that the typical set of empirical seque...
Kazunori Iwata, Kazushi Ikeda, Hideaki Sakai