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Information Distance: New Developments

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2012-01-06 v1 Information Theory math.IT Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability

Abstract

In pattern recognition, learning, and data mining one obtains information from information-carrying objects. This involves an objective definition of the information in a single object, the information to go from one object to another object in a pair of objects, the information to go from one object to any other object in a multiple of objects, and the shared information between objects. This is called "information distance." We survey a selection of new developments in information distance.

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@article{arxiv.1201.1221,
  title  = {Information Distance: New Developments},
  author = {P. M. B. Vitanyi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1201.1221},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

4 pages, Latex; Series of Publications C, Report C-2011-45, Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, pp. 71-74

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