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Finite-state complexity is a variant of algorithmic information theory obtained by replacing Turing machines with finite transducers. We consider the state-size of transducers needed for minimal descriptions of arbitrary strings and, as our…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2010-08-11 Cristian Calude , Kai Salomaa , Tania Roblot

We give exact formulae for a wide family of complexity measures that capture the organization of hidden nonlinear processes. The spectral decomposition of operator-valued functions leads to closed-form expressions involving the full…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-09-17 James P. Crutchfield , Christopher J. Ellison , Paul M. Riechers

We adapt tools from information theory to analyze how an observer comes to synchronize with the hidden states of a finitary, stationary stochastic process. We show that synchronization is determined by both the process's internal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-19 James P. Crutchfield , Christopher J. Ellison , Ryan G. James , John R. Mahoney

Our capacity to process information depends on the computational power at our disposal. Information theory captures our ability to distinguish states or communicate messages when it is unconstrained with unrivaled beauty and elegance. For…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Johannes Jakob Meyer , Asad Raza , Jacopo Rizzo , Lorenzo Leone , Sofiene Jerbi , Jens Eisert

In this work the information loss in deterministic, memoryless systems is investigated by evaluating the conditional entropy of the input random variable given the output random variable. It is shown that for a large class of systems the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-18 Bernhard C. Geiger , Gernot Kubin

This paper discusses mixing of chaotic systems as a dependable method for secure communication. Distribution of the entropy function for steady state as well as plaintext input sequences are analyzed. It is shown that the mixing of chaotic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ninan Sajeeth Philip , K. Babu Joseph

In [Haruna, T. and Nakajima, K., 2011. Physica D 240, 1370-1377], the authors introduced the duality between values (words) and orderings (permutations) as a basis to discuss the relationship between information theoretic measures for…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-04 Taichi Haruna , Kohei Nakajima

We propose a compression-based version of the empirical entropy of a finite string over a finite alphabet. Whereas previously one considers the naked entropy of (possibly higher order) Markov processes, we consider the sum of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-04-05 Paul M. B. Vitányi

Recently, the propagation of information through quantum many-body systems, developed to study quantum chaos, have found many application from black holes to disordered spin systems. Among other quantitative tools, Krylov complexity has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Aranya Bhattacharya , Pingal Pratyush Nath , Himanshu Sahu

Krylov complexity has recently emerged as a new paradigm to characterize quantum chaos in many-body systems. However, which features of Krylov complexity are prerogative of quantum chaotic systems and how they relate to more standard…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-11 Matteo Baggioli , Kyoung-Bum Huh , Hyun-Sik Jeong , Keun-Young Kim , Juan F. Pedraza

Finding the entropy rate of Hidden Markov Processes is an active research topic, of both theoretical and practical importance. A recently used approach is studying the asymptotic behavior of the entropy rate in various regimes. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Or Zuk , Eytan Domany , Ido Kanter , Michael Aizenman

We introduce the minimal maximally predictive models ({\epsilon}-machines) of processes generated by certain hidden semi-Markov models. Their causal states are either hybrid discrete-continuous or continuous random variables and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-05-24 Sarah E. Marzen , James P. Crutchfield

We apply a notion of quantum complexity, called "Krylov complexity", to study the evolution of systems from integrability to chaos. For this purpose we investigate the integrable XXZ spin chain, enriched with an integrability breaking…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-12 E. Rabinovici , A. Sánchez-Garrido , R. Shir , J. Sonner

We consider the problem of approximating the reachability probabilities in Markov decision processes (MDP) with uncountable (continuous) state and action spaces. While there are algorithms that, for special classes of such MDP, provide a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-13 Kush Grover , Jan Křetínský , Tobias Meggendorfer , Maximilian Weininger

Resource theories in quantum information science are helpful for the study and quantification of the performance of information-processing tasks that involve quantum systems. These resource theories also find applications in other areas of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-09 Eneet Kaur , Siddhartha Das , Mark M. Wilde , Andreas Winter

We quantify the consequences of a private key leakage and private randomness generated during quantum key distribution. We provide simple lower bounds on the one-way distillable key after the leakage has been detected. We also show that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-17 Karol Horodecki , Michał Studziński , Ryszard P. Kostecki , Omer Sakarya , Dong Yang

We present two examples of finite-alphabet, infinite excess entropy processes generated by invariant hidden Markov models (HMMs) with countable state sets. The first, simpler example is not ergodic, but the second is. It appears these are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-11-16 Nicholas F. Travers , James P. Crutchfield

We introduce an ambidextrous view of stochastic dynamical systems, comparing their forward-time and reverse-time representations and then integrating them into a single time-symmetric representation. The perspective is useful theoretically,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Christopher J. Ellison , John R. Mahoney , James P. Crutchfield

Loosely speaking, the Shannon entropy rate is used to gauge a stochastic process' intrinsic randomness; the statistical complexity gives the cost of predicting the process. We calculate, for the first time, the entropy rate and statistical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-13 S. E. Marzen , J. P. Crutchfield

A recent result presented the expansion for the entropy rate of a Hidden Markov Process (HMP) as a power series in the noise variable $\eps$. The coefficients of the expansion around the noiseless ($\eps = 0$) limit were calculated up to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-11-11 Or Zuk , Eytan Domany , Ido Kanter , Michael Aizenman