Variants of Solomonoff induction
This page lists some variants of Solomonoff induction.
For determinism, I think "deterministic" is the same as "Solomonoff prior" and "stochastic" is the same as "universal mixture".
For discrete vs continuous, I think this just means whether the prior we define is over finite strings or over infinite sequences (where we want to know the probability of an infinite sequence starting with a given finite string).
Source | Formula | Determinism | Type of machine used | Discrete vs continuous |
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LessWrong Wiki[1] | where is the set of self-delimiting programs | Deterministic | Page doesn't say, but uses self-delimiting programs and it's discrete, so prefix Turing machine? | Discrete because of the rather than |
Scholarpedia discrete universal a priori probability[2] | where the sum is over halting programs | deterministic? | prefix Turing machine | discrete |
Scholarpedia continuous universal a priori probability[2] | where the sum is over minimal programs | deterministic? | Monotone Turing machine | Continuous |
Sterkenburg (p. 22)[3] | where is a finite string, is the set of all halting (valid) inputs of length to the reference machine , is the set of all halting (valid) inputs of length that output something starting with | deterministic | universal Turing machine (no restrictions on prefix-free-ness) | discrete? |
Sterkenburg (p. 24)[3] | where is the shortest program such that (i.e. the shortest program that causes the reference machine to output and halt) |
References
- ↑ https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Solomonoff_induction
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Marcus Hutter; Shane Legg; Paul M.B. Vitanyi. "Algorithmic probability". Scholarpedia. 2007.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Tom Florian Sterkenburg. "The Foundations of Solomonoff Prediction". February 2013.