Software

I am pleased to announce a recently established web-resource for Minimum Description Length (MDL) research at

http://www.mdl-research.org/

The site is maintained by the Complex Systems Computation Group (CoSCo) at the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology.

We will be gradually building the resource to be more comprehensive, and all feedback and comments are appreciated.

What is MDL?

The purpose of statistical modeling is to discover regularities in observed data. The success in finding such regularities can be measured by the length with which the data can be described. This is the rationale behind the Minimum Description Length (MDL) Principle introduced by Jorma Rissanen (Rissanen, 1978).

What is mdl-research.org?

Minimum Description Length on the Web is intended as a source of information for everyone who wants to know more about MDL. The site contains links and references to suggested reading, tutorials, lecture notes, etc. on MDL as well as links to people who are working on MDL and related topics.