David H. Wolpert

30.5k citations
148 papers · 18.5k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 31
Topics
Game Theory and Applications (28 papers)Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (26 papers)Reinforcement Learning in Robotics (17 papers)

In The Last Decade

David H. Wolpert

139 papers receiving 17.7k citations

Hit Papers

No free lunch theorems for optimization19922026200320141997199219962.5k5.0k7.5k

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David H. Wolpert
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  • Artificial Intelligence 10.0k
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics 3.4k
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 1.9k
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering 1.7k
  • Control and Systems Engineering 1.4k
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All Works

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Entropy production and thermodynamics of information under protocol constraints
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Semantic information, agency, and nonequilibrium statistical physics
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Exact, complete expressions for the thermodynamic costs of circuits.
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Bayesian Optimization with a Finite Budget: An Approximate Dynamic Programming Approach
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Extending Landauer's Bound to Arbitrary Computation
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A framework for optimal high-level descriptions in science and engineering - preliminary report.
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Using machine learning to improve stochastic optimization
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What the No Free Lunch Theorems Really Mean; How to Improve Search Algorithms
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Modeling Humans as Reinforcement Learners: How to Predict Human Behavior in Multi-Stage Games
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Trembling Hand Perfection for Mixed Quantal Response/Nash Equilibria
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Collective Intelligence and Braess' Paradox
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Distributed Control with Collective Intelligence
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Anytime exploratory data analysis for massive data sets
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Stacked Density Estimation
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Bias plus variance decomposition for zero-one loss functions
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Mathematics of Generalization: Proceedings: SFI-CNLS Workshop on Formal Approaches to Supervised Learning (1992: Santa Fe, N. M.)
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On the Use of Evidence in Neural Networks
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The relationship between Occam's razor and convergent guessing.
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About David H. Wolpert

David H. Wolpert is a scholar working on Management Science and Operations Research, General Decision Sciences and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, having authored 148 papers that have together received 18.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Game Theory and Applications (28 papers), Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (26 papers) and Reinforcement Learning in Robotics (17 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Artificial Intelligence (10.0k citations), Computational Theory and Mathematics (3.4k citations) and Management Science and Operations Research (1.3k citations). David H. Wolpert has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Austria and Italy. Frequent co-authors include William G. Macready, Ron Kohavi, Kagan Tumer, Artemy Kolchinsky, Bette Korber, Padhraic Smyth, David R. Wolf, Stefan Bieniawski, Robert M. Farber and Alan S. Lapedes. Their work appears in journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

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