Thomas Cover did a great many interesting things. His work on universal data compression and the universal portfolio could provide very efficient and useful optimization approaches for use in AI & AGI.
Cover’s universal optimization approaches grow out of the beginnings of information theory, especially John Kelly’s work at Bell Labs in the 1950s.
In his "universal" approaches, Cover developed the theoretical optimization framework for identifying, at successive time steps, the mean rank-weighting “portfolio” of agents/algorithms/performace ... (read more)
Thomas Cover did a great many interesting things. His work on universal data compression and the universal portfolio could provide very efficient and useful optimization approaches for use in AI & AGI.
Cover’s universal optimization approaches grow out of the beginnings of information theory, especially John Kelly’s work at Bell Labs in the 1950s.
In his "universal" approaches, Cover developed the theoretical optimization framework for identifying, at successive time steps, the mean rank-weighting “portfolio” of agents/algorithms/performace ... (read more)