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Some established and also novel techniques in the field of applications of algorithmic (Kolmogorov) complexity currently co-exist for the first time and are here reviewed, ranging from dominant ones such as statistical lossless compression…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Hector Zenil

We survey and introduce concepts and tools located at the intersection of information theory and network biology. We show that Shannon's information entropy, compressibility and algorithmic complexity quantify different local and global…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2015-12-14 Hector Zenil , Narsis A. Kiani , Jesper Tegnér

Kolmogorov complexity theory is used to tell what the algorithmic informational content of a string is. It is defined as the length of the shortest program that describes the string. We present a programming language that can be used to…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2013-06-13 Noson S. Yanofsky

Randomness extraction is the process of constructing a source of randomness of high quality from one or several sources of randomness of lower quality. The problem can be modeled using probability distributions and min-entropy to measure…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-06-19 Marius Zimand

Diverse applications of Kolmogorov complexity to learning [CIKK16], circuit complexity [OPS19], cryptography [LP20], average-case complexity [Hir21], and proof search [Kra22] have been discovered in recent years. Since the running time of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Zhenjian Lu , Igor C. Oliveira

Kolmogorov complexity of a finite binary word reflects both algorithmic structure and the empirical distribution of symbols appearing in the word. Words with symbol frequencies far from one half have smaller combinatorial richness and…

Computation · Statistics 2025-12-25 Brani Vidakovic

Probability theory is fundamental for modeling uncertainty, with traditional probabilities being real and non-negative. Complex probability extends this concept by allowing complex-valued probabilities, opening new avenues for analysis in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Chan Li , Hejun Xu , Zhu Cao

There is a parallelism between Shannon information theory and algorithmic information theory. In particular, the same linear inequalities are true for Shannon entropies of tuples of random variables and Kolmogorov complexities of tuples of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Bruno Bauwens , Peter Gács , Andrei Romashchenko , Alexander Shen

Many statements from the classic information theory (the theory of Shannon's entropy) have natural counterparts in the algorithmic information theory (in the framework of Kolmogorov complexity). In this paper we discuss one simple instance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Andrei Romashchenko

We introduce a notion of Kolmogorov complexity of unitary transformation, which can (roughly) be understood as the least possible amount of information required to fully describe and reconstruct a given finite unitary transformation. In the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-20 Alexei Kaltchenko

The last theme of Kolmogorov's mathematics research was algorithmic theory of information, now often called Kolmogorov complexity theory. There are only two main publications of Kolmogorov (1965 and 1968-1969) on this topic. So Kolmogorov's…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-10-19 Alexey Semenov , Alexander Shen , Nikolay Vereshchagin

Given a reference computer, Kolmogorov complexity is a well defined function on all binary strings. In the standard approach, however, only the asymptotic properties of such functions are considered because they do not depend on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Andrei N. Soklakov

The information in an individual finite object (like a binary string) is commonly measured by its Kolmogorov complexity. One can divide that information into two parts: the information accounting for the useful regularity present in the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Paul Vitanyi

The use of algorithmic information theory (Kolmogorov complexity theory) to explain the relation between mathematical probability theory and `real world' is discussed.

History and Overview · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Alexander Shen

Information entropy is used to summarize transcriptome data, but ignoring zero count data contained them. Ignoring zero count data causes loss of information and sometimes it was difficult to distinguish between multiple transcriptomes.…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2017-04-13 Panpaki Seekaki , Norichika Ogata

In classical information theory, entropy rate and Kolmogorov complexity per symbol are related by a theorem of Brudno. In this paper, we prove a quantum version of this theorem, connecting the von Neumann entropy rate and two notions of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-07-16 Fabio Benatti , Tyll Krueger , Markus Mueller , Rainer Siegmund-Schultze , Arleta Szkola

The paper proposes open problems in classical Kolmogorov complexity. Each problem is presented with background information and thus the article also surveys some recent studies in the area.

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Andrei Romashchenko , Alexander Shen , Marius Zimand

Kolmogorov Complexity constitutes an integral part of computability theory, information theory, and computational complexity theory -- in the discrete setting of bits and Turing machines. Over real numbers, on the other hand, the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-03-28 Martin Ziegler , Wouter M. Koolen

In this paper, we present some results on information, complexity and entropy as defined below and we discuss their relations with the Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy which is the most important invariant of a dynamical system. These results have…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-08-17 Vieri Benci , Claudio Bonanno , Stefano Galatolo , Giulia Menconi , Federico Ponchio

In this paper, a representation of the information-disturbance theorem based on the quantum Kolmogorov complexity that was defined by P. Vitanyi has been examined. In the quantum information theory, the information-disturbance relationship,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-16 Takayuki Miyadera