Jorma Johannes Rissanen (1932-2020) was a Finnish information theorist known for originating the minimum description length principle and for developing practical approaches to arithmetic coding for lossless data compression. Trained at the Helsinki University of Technology, he worked at IBM, Linkoping University and Tampere University of Technology, and his contributions were recognized with the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal in 1993, the Kolmogorov Medal of the University of London in 2006 and the Claude E. Shannon Award in 2009.
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How does Jorma Rissanen's minimum description length principle relate to machine learning?
It is an inductive principle in machine learning, and he is counted among its founders.
The Computer Learning Research Centre at Royal Holloway, University of London, describes Jorma Rissanen as one of the founders of Minimum Description Length, which it calls an inductive principle in machine learning. The principle is the one for which he is best known, alongside his work on arithmetic coding for data compression.
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1. Wikidata: Jorma Rissanen
- Wikidata Q3056621, resolved via en.wikipedia pageprops (wave rule R-L)
- Wikidata Q3056621 P569 (date of birth)
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