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Suboptimal behaviour of Bayes and MDL in classification under misspecification
Peter Grunwald, John Langford
We show that forms of Bayesian and MDL inference that are often applied to classification problems can be *inconsistent*. This means there exists a learning problem such that for a…
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A tutorial introduction to the minimum description length principle
Peter Grunwald
This tutorial provides an overview of and introduction to Rissanen's Minimum Description Length (MDL) Principle. The first chapter provides a conceptual, entirely non-technical int…