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The even online Kolmogorov complexity of a string $x = x_1 x_2 \cdots x_{n}$ is the minimal length of a program that for all $i\le n/2$, on input $x_1x_3 \cdots x_{2i-1}$ outputs $x_{2i}$. The odd complexity is defined similarly. The sum of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Bruno Bauwens , Maria Marchenko

A new framework is introduced for examining and evaluating the fundamental limits of lossless data compression, that emphasizes genuinely non-asymptotic results. The {\em sample complexity} of compressing a given source is defined as the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Terence Viaud , Ioannis Kontoyiannis

Kolmogorov complexity and algorithmic probability are defined only up to an additive resp. multiplicative constant, since their actual values depend on the choice of the universal reference computer. In this paper, we analyze a natural…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-03-29 Markus Mueller

In this paper, we investigate the sample complexity of recovering tensors with low symmetric rank from symmetric rank-one measurements. This setting is particularly motivated by the study of higher-order interactions and the analysis of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-02-10 Eren C. Kızıldağ

In this paper, we establish some nontrivial and effective upper bounds for the least common multiple of consecutive terms of a finite arithmetic progression. Precisely, we prove that for any two coprime positive integers $a$ and $b$, with…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-04-17 Sid Ali Bousla

In this paper we give a definition for quantum Kolmogorov complexity. In the classical setting, the Kolmogorov complexity of a string is the length of the shortest program that can produce this string as its output. It is a measure of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andre Berthiaume , Wim van Dam , Sophie Laplante

This paper studies sequence prediction based on the monotone Kolmogorov complexity Km=-log m, i.e. based on universal deterministic/one-part MDL. m is extremely close to Solomonoff's prior M, the latter being an excellent predictor in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Marcus Hutter

It is not obvious what fraction of all the potential information residing in the molecules and structures of living systems is significant or meaningful to the system. Sets of random sequences or identically repeated sequences, for example,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-01-28 David J. Galas , Matti Nykter , Gregory W. Carter , Nathan D. Price , Ilya Shmulevich

In this paper we study subsequences of random numbers. In Kamae (1973), selection functions that depend only on coordinates are studied, and their necessary and sufficient condition for the selected sequences to be normal numbers is given.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-15 Hayato Takahashi

Kolmogorov complexity is often used as a convenient language for counting and/or probabilistic existence proofs. However, there are some applications where Kolmogorov complexity is used in a more subtle way. We provide one (somehow)…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Alexander Shen

Although information content is invariant up to an additive constant, the range of possible additive constants applicable to programming languages is so large that in practice it plays a major role in the actual evaluation of K(s), the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-06-03 Jean-Paul Delahaye , Hector Zenil

This paper contains an answer to the question of existence of regularities of the so called \textit{random in a broad sense} mass phenomena, asked by A. N. Kolmogorov in \cite{Kolmogorov}. It turns out that some family of finitely-additive…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-08-29 Victor I. Ivanenko , Valery A. Labkovsky

A regular language $L$ is said to be prime, if it is not the product of two non-trivial languages. Martens et al. settled the exact complexity of deciding primality for deterministic finite automata in 2010. For finite languages, Mateescu…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Philip Sieder

Nies and Scholz defined quantum Martin-L\"of randomness (q-MLR) for states (infinite qubitstrings). We define a notion of quantum Solovay randomness and show it to be equivalent to q-MLR using purely linear algebraic methods. Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-29 Tejas Bhojraj

In analogy of classical Kolmogorov complexity we develop a theory of the algorithmic information in bits contained in any one of continuously many pure quantum states: quantum Kolmogorov complexity. Classical Kolmogorov complexity coincides…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paul Vitanyi

This paper studies the complexity of languages of finite words using automata theory. To go beyond the class of regular languages, we consider infinite automata and the notion of state complexity defined by Karp. Motivated by the seminal…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-25 Nathanaël Fijalkow

Spurious correlations are common in time-series analysis because simple, low-complexity patterns can produce high Pearson correlations even between unrelated series. We argue that Kolmogorov complexity, interpreted as resistance to…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Boumediene Hamzi , Marianne Clausel , Kamal Dingle , Marcus Hutter , Mohammed Terry-Jack

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

The nascent field of compressed sensing is founded on the fact that high-dimensional signals with "simple structure" can be recovered accurately from just a small number of randomized samples. Several specific kinds of structures have been…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-08 Shirin Jalali , Arian Maleki , Richard Baraniuk

Randomness in the sense of Martin-L\"of can be defined in terms of lower semicomputable supermartingales. We show that such a supermartingale cannot be replaced by a pair of supermartingales that bet only on the even bits (the first one)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-11-28 Andrej Muchnik