The Lack of A Priori Distinctions Between Learning Algorithms

1996 · Neural Computation · 1,661 citations · 4 from inside this corpus

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What this paper cites, inside the corpus

Paper	Year	Cited
No free lunch theorems for optimization	1997	14,234
The Strength of Weak Learnability	1990	3,344
On the mean accuracy of statistical pattern recognizers	1968	2,859
The strength of weak learnability	1990	2,477
Learnability and the Vapnik-Chervonenkis dimension	1989	1,855
Generalization as search	1982	1,442

What cites it, inside the corpus

Paper	Year	Cited
No free lunch theorems for optimization	1997	14,234
A few useful things to know about machine learning	2012	3,338
[No title in the source record — Edinburgh Research Explorer (University of Edinburgh)]		1,853
Aleatoric and epistemic uncertainty in machine learning: an introduction to concepts and …	2021	1,596

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Topics

Machine Learning and Algorithms	Computer Science
Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms	Computer Science
Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs	Computer Science

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