MDL in the limit

Authors
Publication date 2010
Host editors
  • J.M. Sempere
  • P. GarcĂ­a
Book title Grammatical Inference: Theoretical Results and Applications
Book subtitle 10th international colloquium, ICGI 2010, Valencia, Spain, September 13-16, 2010 : proceedings
ISBN
  • 9783642154874
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9783642154881
Series Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Event 10th International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference (ICGI 2010), Valencia, Spain
Pages (from-to) 258-261
Publisher Berlin: Springer
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Informatics Institute (IVI)
Abstract We show that within the Gold paradigm for language learning an informer for a superfinite set can cause an optimal MDL learner to make an infinite amount of mind changes. In this setting an optimal learner can make an infinite amount of wrong choices without approximating the right solution. This result helps us to understand the relation between MDL and identification in the limit in learning: MDL is an optimal model selection paradigm, identification in the limit defines recursion theoretical conditions for convergence of a learner.
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15488-1_21
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