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Occam's razor
Known as:
Occum's razor
, Okkum's razor
, Occam’s Razor
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Occam's razor (also written as Ockham's razor, and lex parsimoniae in Latin, which means law of parsimony) is a problem-solving principle attributed…
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2017
Highly Cited
2017
Occam's razor is insufficient to infer the preferences of irrational agents
S. Armstrong
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S. Mindermann
Neural Information Processing Systems
2017
Corpus ID: 53103181
Inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) attempts to infer human rewards or preferences from observed behavior. Since human planning…
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Review
2010
Review
2010
Sparsity and Compressed Sensing in Radar Imaging
L. Potter
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Emre Ertin
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J. Parker
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M. Çetin
Proceedings of the IEEE
2010
Corpus ID: 5639705
Remote sensing with radar is typically an ill-posed linear inverse problem: a scene is to be inferred from limited measurements…
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Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Performance and Behavior of Family Firms: Evidence from the French Stock Market
D. Sraer
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D. Thesmar
2006
Corpus ID: 10428952
This paper empirically documents the performance and behavior of family firms listed on the French stock exchange between 1994…
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Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Foundations and Implications of a Proposed Unified Services Theory
Scott E. Sampson
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C. Froehle
2006
Corpus ID: 39665926
Diverse businesses, such as garbage collection, retail banking, and management consulting are often tied together under the…
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Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
New paradigms for modelling species distributions
S. Rushton
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S. Ormerod
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G. Kerby
2004
Corpus ID: 73633383
1The management of both desirable and undesirable species requires an understanding of the factors determining their distribution…
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Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
A Cognitive Model of Selective Processing in Anxiety
A. Mathews
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B. Mackintosh
Cognitive Therapy and Research
1998
Corpus ID: 43527466
Anxiety states are associated with increasedattention to threat and a greater likelihood of reachinga pessimistic interpretation…
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Review
1997
Review
1997
Control and Performance in International Joint Ventures
Hans Mjoen
,
Stephen Tallman
1997
Corpus ID: 15697643
The authors examine the meaning of control in international joint ventures (IJVs) and the relationships of potential means of…
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Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Bayesian Learning for Neural Networks
Radford M. Neal
1995
Corpus ID: 60809283
Artificial "neural networks" are widely used as flexible models for classification and regression applications, but questions…
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Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Evolving Optimal Neural Networks Using Genetic Algorithms with Occam's Razor
Byoung-Tak Zhang
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H. Mühlenbein
Complex Systems
1993
Corpus ID: 15411602
Genetic algorithms have had two primary applications for neural networks: optimization of network architecture, and training…
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Review
1989
Review
1989
Theory of attentional operations in shape identification.
D. LaBerge
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V. Brown
1989
Corpus ID: 14713408
This article presents a theory of selective attention that is intended to account for the identification of a visual shape in a…
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