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Statistical Learning Theory and Occam’s Razor: The Core Argument
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Statistical learning theory is often associated with the principle of Occam’s razor, which recommends a simplicity preference in inductive inference. This paper distills the core argument for simplicity obtainable from statistical learning theory, built on the theory’s central learning guarantee for the method of empirical risk minimization. This core “means-ends” argument is that a simpler hypothesis class or inductive model is better because it has better learning guarantees; however, these guarantees are model-relative and so the theoretical push towards simplicity is checked by our prior knowledge.
Tom F. Sterkenburg
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Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany
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