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The Role of Occam's Razor in Knowledge Discovery

by: Pedro Domingos
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Vol. 3, No. 4. (1999), pp. 409-425  Key: citeulike:1235434

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Many KDD systems incorporate an implicit or explicit preference for simpler models, but this use of "Occam's razor" has been strongly criticized by several authors (e.g., Schaffer, 1993; Webb, 1996). This controversy arises partly because Occam's razor has been interpreted in two quite different ways. The first interpretation (simplicity is a goal in itself) is essentially correct, but is at heart a preference for more comprehensible models. The second interpretation (simplicity leads to...


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