Maximum entropy and the glasses you are looking through

Authors:
Peter Grünwald
Affiliations:
EURANDOM, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Venue:
UAI'00 Proceedings of the Sixteenth conference on Uncertainty in artificial intelligence
Year:
2000

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Abstract

We give an interpretation of the Maximum Entropy (MaxEnt) Principle in gametheoretic terms. Based on this interpretation, we make a formal distinction between different ways of applying Maximum Entropy distributions. MaxEnt has frequently been criticized on the grounds that it leads to highly representation dependent results. Our distinction allows us to avoid this problem in many cases.