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Andrey Kolmogorov

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Conditional Probability
1763

Conditional Probability

Measures the likelihood of an event occurring, given that another event has already occurred.

Generality: 880

Search Optimization
1956

Search Optimization

Process of enhancing algorithms' ability to efficiently search for the most optimal solution in a potentially vast solution space.

Generality: 830

Algorithmic Probability
1960

Algorithmic Probability

Quantifies the likelihood that a random program will produce a specific output on a universal Turing machine, forming a core component of algorithmic information theory.

Generality: 855

AIT (Algorithmic Information Theory)
1965

AIT
Algorithmic Information Theory

Studies the complexity of strings and the amount of information they contain, using algorithms and computational methods.

Generality: 830

MDL (Minimum Description Length)
1978

MDL
Minimum Description Length

Principle formalization of Occam's Razor in information theory, advocating that the best hypothesis for a given set of data is the one that leads to the shortest total description of the data and the hypothesis.

Generality: 845

Stochastic
2021

Stochastic

Systems or processes that are inherently random, involving variables that are subject to chance.

Generality: 885