Occam’s razor is a principle often attributed to 14th–century friar William of Ockham that says that if you have two competing ideas to explain the same phenomenon, you should prefer the ...

The principle of Occam’s razor (also spelled Ockham’s razor) is, at its core, about simplicity. It can basically be summarized as “the simplest explanation is usually the best,” and the ...

The new findings demonstrate that DNNs have an inbuilt ‘Occam's razor,’ meaning that when presented with multiple solutions that fit training data, they tend to favour those that are simpler.