Minimum Description Length

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  1. Stochastic complexity of vectors containing cluster structure

    Aug 31, 2026Daniel Nicorici, Olli Yli-Harja, Jaakko AstolaMinimum Description LengthClustering

    Medicel Oy, Keilaranta 12, FIN-02150 Espoo, Finland · Institute of Signal Processing, Tampere University of Technology P.O. Box 553, FIN-33101 Tampere, Finland

  2. High-dimensional networks and mean squared error for possibly misspecified models

    Aug 13, 2026Lourens WaldorpModel SelectionMinimum Description Length

    University of Amsterdam, Nieuwe Achtergracht 129-B, 1018 NP, the Netherlands

  3. FedSLIM: Privacy-Preserving Federated MDL-Based Descriptive Pattern Mining Across Data Silos

    Jul 25, 2026Samar Samir Khalil, Noha S. Tawfik, Marco SpruitMinimum Description LengthPrivacy-Preserving ML

    Computer Engineering Department, Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, Alexandria 21913, Egypt · Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science, Leiden University, 2333 CC Leiden, The Netherlands · Department of Public Health & Primary Care, Leiden University Medical Center, 2333 ZA Leiden, The Netherlands

  4. MDL Meets Latent Confounders: LNML-based Causal Discovery

    Jul 5, 2026Zhongyi Que, Shin Matsushima, Kenji YamanishiMinimum Description LengthCausal Discovery

    Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

  5. The Information-Theoretic Benefit of Shared Representations under Orthogonality Constraints

    Jun 14, 2026Thomas Dittrich, Oliver Potocki, Philipp GrohsRepresentation LearningMinimum Description Length

    Johann Radon Institute of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Austrian Academy of Sciences · Faculty of Mathematics, University of Vienna

  6. What Fits (Into Few Tokens) Doesn't Overfit: Compression and Generalization in ML Research Agents

    Jun 9, 2026Martin Andres Bertran, Aaron Roth, Zhiwei Steven WuMinimum Description LengthBenchmark Contamination

    Amazon Responsible AI · University of Pennsylvania · Carnegie Mellon University

  7. Prediction Under Imperfect Compression: A Theory of Approximate MDL

    Jun 3, 2026Qian Li, Xinyu Mao, Shang-Hua Teng +1Minimum Description LengthApproximation Algorithms

    Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data · University of Southern California

  8. Central Description Length (CDL) Clustering Validation Index

    Jun 2, 2026Mahdi Shamsi, Soosan BeheshtiMinimum Description LengthClustering

    Toronto Metropolitan University, 350 Victoria St., Toronto, Ontario M5B 2K3, Canada

  9. Skill Reuse as Compression in Agentic RL

    May 29, 2026Zhikun Xu, Yu Feng, Jacob Dineen +3Agentic RLMinimum Description Length

    Arizona State University · University of Pennsylvania · University of Southern California

  10. Guiding Multi-Objective Genetic Programming with Description Length Improves Symbolic Regression Solutions

    May 21, 2026Gabriel Kronberger, Fabricio Olivetti de Franca, Deaglan J. Bartlett +2Minimum Description LengthGenetic Programming

    Heuristic and Evolutionary Algorithms Laboratory University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria Softwarepark 11, 4232 Hagenberg, Austria · Center of Mathematics, Computing and Cognition Federal University of ABC Av. dos Estados 5001, Santo Andre, 09280-560, SP, Brazil · Astrophysics, University of Oxford Denys Wilkinson Building, Keble Road, Oxford, OX1 3RH, UK +1