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Minimum Description Length
MDL
archive 2025-07-28 Description, source and code snippet are the archive's method entry.
Minimum Description Length provides a criterion for the selection of models, regardless of their complexity, without the restrictive assumption that the data form a sample from a 'true' distribution.
Extracted from scholarpedia
Source:
Paper: J. Rissanen (1978) Modeling by the shortest data description. Automatica 14, 465-471
Book: P. D. Grünwald (2007) The Minimum Description Length Principle, MIT Press, June 2007, 570 pages
Papers archive 2025-07-28
30 shown of 97, newest first. Repository counts are the archive's code-links table. A Syntology line states what Syntology ran from that paper's harvested code; it is per sample and not a correctness claim.
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Bridging Predictive Coding and MDL: A Two-Part Code Framework for Deep Learning 20 May 2025 · 0 repositories · arXiv:2505.14635
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A Minimum Description Length Approach to Regularization in Neural Networks 19 May 2025 · 1 repository · arXiv:2505.13398Syntology ran 2 of 2 samples · 0 unverified
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A Theory of Machine Understanding via the Minimum Description Length Principle 1 Apr 2025 · 0 repositories · arXiv:2504.00395
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A Materials Map Integrating Experimental and Computational Data via Graph-Based Machine Learning for Enhanced Materials Discovery 10 Mar 2025 · 0 repositories · arXiv:2503.07378
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Comparative Analysis of MDL-VAE vs. Standard VAE on 202 Years of Gynecological Data 25 Feb 2025 · 0 repositories · arXiv:2502.18412
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On Calibration in Multi-Distribution Learning 18 Dec 2024 · 0 repositories · arXiv:2412.14142
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AdaptiveMDL-GenClust: A Robust Clustering Framework Integrating Normalized Mutual Information and Evolutionary Algorithms 26 Nov 2024 · 0 repositories · arXiv:2412.05305
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Interpretability as Compression: Reconsidering SAE Explanations of Neural Activations with MDL-SAEs 15 Oct 2024 · 0 repositories · arXiv:2410.11179
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Neural Networks Generalize on Low Complexity Data 19 Sep 2024 · 0 repositories · arXiv:2409.12446
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MDL-Pool: Adaptive Multilevel Graph Pooling Based on Minimum Description Length 16 Sep 2024 · 0 repositories · arXiv:2409.10263
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A Systematic Review of Intermediate Fusion in Multimodal Deep Learning for Biomedical Applications 2 Aug 2024 · 0 repositories · arXiv:2408.02686
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Coding for Intelligence from the Perspective of Category 1 Jul 2024 · 0 repositories · arXiv:2407.01017
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Crocodile: Cross Experts Covariance for Disentangled Learning in Multi-Domain Recommendation 21 May 2024 · 0 repositories · arXiv:2405.12706
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Probabilistic Truly Unordered Rule Sets 18 Jan 2024 · 1 repository · arXiv:2401.09918
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Skin cancer diagnosis using NIR spectroscopy data of skin lesions in vivo using machine learning algorithms 2 Jan 2024 · 0 repositories · arXiv:2401.01200
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Distribution-Dependent Rates for Multi-Distribution Learning 20 Dec 2023 · 0 repositories · arXiv:2312.13130
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Optimal Multi-Distribution Learning 8 Dec 2023 · 0 repositories · arXiv:2312.05134
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Exploring the hierarchical structure of human plans via program generation 30 Nov 2023 · 2 repositories · arXiv:2311.18644
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Bridging Algorithmic Information Theory and Machine Learning: A New Approach to Kernel Learning 21 Nov 2023 · 0 repositories · arXiv:2311.12624
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Improved MDL Estimators Using Fiber Bundle of Local Exponential Families for Non-exponential Families 7 Nov 2023 · 0 repositories · arXiv:2311.03852
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KG-MDL: Mining Graph Patterns in Knowledge Graphs with the MDL Principle 22 Sep 2023 · 0 repositories · arXiv:2309.12908
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Decoupled Training: Return of Frustratingly Easy Multi-Domain Learning 19 Sep 2023 · 0 repositories · arXiv:2309.10302
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Variational Density Propagation Continual Learning 22 Aug 2023 · 0 repositories · arXiv:2308.11801
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A scoping review on multimodal deep learning in biomedical images and texts 14 Jul 2023 · 0 repositories · arXiv:2307.07362
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Generating Parametric BRDFs from Natural Language Descriptions 19 Jun 2023 · 1 repository · arXiv:2306.15679
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Perturbation-Based Two-Stage Multi-Domain Active Learning 19 Jun 2023 · 0 repositories · arXiv:2306.10700
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The Whole Is Greater than the Sum of Its Parts: Improving Music Source Separation by Bridging Network 13 May 2023 · 1 repository · arXiv:2305.07855
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Multi-Domain Learning From Insufficient Annotations 4 May 2023 · 0 repositories · arXiv:2305.02757
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A Comprehensive and Versatile Multimodal Deep Learning Approach for Predicting Diverse Properties of Advanced Materials 29 Mar 2023 · 0 repositories · arXiv:2303.16412
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Learning the Finer Things: Bayesian Structure Learning at the Instantiation Level 8 Mar 2023 · 0 repositories · arXiv:2303.04339
Tasks archive 2025-07-28
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