About Me

Charles Torres

I am a linguist and cognitive scientist building computational models of language acquisition, change, and algorithmic complexity.

Sparsity Through Annealing of the $L_p$ (Semi-)Norm

Math

This is a fragment of a failed attempt to build an optimizer which anneals using the LP "norm" (here in scare quotes because $p$ was frequently below 1). The idea was simple (although non-functional). To create sparsity …