English Explanatory Dictionary

epsilon-machine

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A deterministic automaton consisting of a system of causal states and the transitions between them, functioning as the smallest possible maximally predictive model of a stochastic process

Word forms

epsilon-machine epsilon-machines ϵ-machine ε-machine

Etymology

From epsilon + machine. Coined by James Crutchfield and Karl Young in their 1989 paper “Inferring Statistical Complexity”.

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