The Lack of A Priori Distinctions Between Learning Algorithms

Wolpert, D. H. (1996). The Lack of A Priori Distinctions Between Learning Algorithms. Neural Computation, 8(7), 1341-1390.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1996

DOI

10.1162/neco.1996.8.7.1341

Link

https://doi.org/10.1162/neco.1996.8.7.1341

Cited from

data_science, philosophy

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2 citations across 2 artifacts.

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Primes

• Feature Engineering
  • The no-free-lunch result says that without prior structure no learner outperforms any other on average; engineered features are how prior structure enters.
• Inductive Reasoning
  • The no-free-lunch theorem

    This sourceWolpert no-free-lunch theorem machine learning generalization.

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