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Publications

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Machine Super Intelligence
Shane Legg. Department of Informatics, University of Lugano, June 2008.
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Solomonoff Induction
Shane Legg. Technical Report CDMTCS-030. Centre for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science. University of Auckland, March 1997.
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journal papers

Universal Intelligence: A Definition of Machine Intelligence
Shane Legg and Marcus Hutter. In Minds and Machines, pages 391-444, volume 17, number 4, November 2007.
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Fitness Uniform Optimization
Marcus Hutter and Shane Legg. In IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, pages 568-589, volume 10, number 5, October 2006.
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book chapters

Algorithmic Probability Theory
Marcus Hutter, Shane Legg and Paul Vitanyi. In Scholarpedia, page 19046, August 2007.
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On the Limits of Learning with Computational Models
Shane Legg, Jan Poland and Thomas Zeugmann. In Knowledge Media Science, 2008.

Solving Problems with Finite Test Sets
Cristian Calude, Helmut Jürgensen and Shane Legg. In Finite versus Infinite: Contributions to an Eternal Dilemma, pages 39-52, Springer-Verlag, London, 1999.
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conference papers

Portfolio Selection with Narrow Framing: Probability Weighting Matters
Enrico G. De Giorgi and Shane Legg. In Proc. 15th International Conference of Computing in Economics and Finance Sydney, Australia, 2009.
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Temporal Difference Updating without a Learning Rate
Marcus Hutter and Shane Legg. In Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS ‘07). To appear 2008.
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Tests of Machine Intelligence. Shane Legg and Marcus Hutter. In Proc. 50th Anniversary Summit of Artificial Intelligence, Monte Verità, Switzerland. 2007.
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A Collection of Definitions of Intelligence
Shane Legg and Marcus Hutter. In B. Goertzel, editor, Proc. 1st Annual artificial general intelligence workshop, 2006.
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Is there an Elegant Universal Theory of Prediction?
Shane Legg. In Proc. 17th International Conf. on Algorithmic Learning Theory (ALT’06), pages 274-287, Barcelona, 2006.
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slides

A Formal Measure of Machine Intelligence
Shane Legg and Marcus Hutter. In Proc. Annual machine learning conference of Belgium and The Netherlands (Benelearn-2006). Ghent, 2006.
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Fitness Uniform Deletion: A simple way to preserve diversity
Shane Legg and Marcus Hutter. In Proc. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO ‘05). Pages 1271-1279, Washington, 2005. ACM SigEvo.
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Tournament versus Fitness Uniform Selection
Shane Legg, Marcus Hutter and Akshat Kumar. In Proc. Congress of Evolutionary Computation (CEC ‘04). 2004.
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Minimum Information Estimation of Linear Regression Models
Shane Legg. In Proc. Information, Statistics and Induction in Science. Pages 103-111, 1996.

An MDL Estimate of the Significance of Rules
John Cleary, Shane Legg and Ian Witten. In Proc. Information, Statistics and Induction in Science. Pages 43-45, 1996.
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Objective Evaluation of Inferred Context-Free Grammars
Tony Smith, Ian Witten, John Cleary and Shane Legg. Australian and New Zealand Conference on Intelligent Information Systems. Pages 393-396, 1994.
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conference posters

A Formal Definition of Intelligence for Artificial Systems.
Shane Legg and Marcus Hutter. In Proc. 50th Anniversary Summit of Artificial Intelligence, Monte Verità, Switzerland, July 2006.
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Incompleteness and Artificial Intelligence
Shane Legg. In Collegium Logicum of the Kurt Gödel Society. Vienna, April 2006.
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A Universal Measure of Intelligence for Artificial Agents
Shane Legg and Marcus Hutter. In Proc. 21st International Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2005). Edinburgh, 2005.
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technical reports

Ergodic MDPs admit self-optimising policies
Shane Legg and Marcus Hutter. Technical Report IDSIA-21-04, IDSIA, 2004.
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A taxonomy for abstract environments
Shane Legg and Marcus Hutter. Technical Report IDSIA-20-04, IDSIA, 2004.
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