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We apply recent ideas about complexity and randomness to the philosophy of laws and chances. We develop two ways to use algorithmic randomness to characterize probabilistic laws of nature. The first, a generative chance* law, employs a…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Jeffrey A. Barrett , Eddy Keming Chen

In this paper, we study arbitrary infinite binary information systems each of which consists of an infinite set called universe and an infinite set of two-valued functions (attributes) defined on the universe. We consider the notion of a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Mikhail Moshkov

Complexity of the problem of choosing among uncertain acts is a salient feature of many of the environments in which departures from expected utility theory are observed. I propose and axiomatize a model of choice under uncertainty in which…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2022-10-17 Quitzé Valenzuela-Stookey

There is no single universally accepted definition of "Complexity". There are several perspectives on complexity and what constitutes complex behaviour or complex systems, as opposed to regular, predictable behaviour and simple systems. In…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2018-01-17 Nithin Nagaraj , Karthi Balasubramanian

The paper surveys recent progress in understanding geometric, topological and combinatorial properties of large simplicial complexes, focusing mainly on ampleness, connectivity and universality. In the first part of the paper we concentrate…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-19 Michael Farber

Networks are mathematical structures that are universally used to describe a large variety of complex systems such as the brain or the Internet. Characterizing the geometrical properties of these networks has become increasingly relevant…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-26 Zhihao Wu , Giulia Menichetti , Christoph Rahmede , Ginestra Bianconi

It has been demonstrated that excitable media with a tree structure performed better than other network topologies, it is natural to consider neural networks defined on Cayley trees. The investigation of a symbolic space called tree-shift…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-02-28 Jung-Chao Ban , Chih-Hung Chang , Nai-Zhu Huang

It is now generally assumed that the heterogeneity of most networks in nature probably arises via preferential attachment of some sort. However, the origin of various other topological features, such as degree-degree correlations and…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2010-03-05 Samuel Johnson , J. Marro , Joaquin J. Torres

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

We define the probability of an equation in a finite algebra as the proportion of tuples in its domain that satisfy it. We call the probabilistic spectrum of an algebra the set of probability values obtained when the equation varies. We…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Carles Cardó

Realistic networks display not only a complex topological structure, but also a heterogeneous distribution of weights in the connection strengths. Here we study synchronization in weighted complex networks and show that the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Changsong Zhou , Adilson E. Motter , Jurgen Kurths

The field of complex networks studies a wide variety of interacting systems by representing them as networks. To understand their properties and mutual relations, the randomisation of network connections is a commonly used tool. However,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-18 Noam Abadi , Franco Ruzzenenti

A probabilistic database with attribute-level uncertainty consists of relations where cells of some attributes may hold probability distributions rather than deterministic content. Such databases arise, implicitly or explicitly, in the…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Amir Gilad , Aviram Imber , Benny Kimelfeld

The analysis of networks characterized by links with heterogeneous intensity or weight suffers from two long-standing problems of arbitrariness. On one hand, the definitions of topological properties introduced for binary graphs can be…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2014-04-28 Diego Garlaschelli , Sebastian E. Ahnert , Thomas M. A. Fink , Guido Caldarelli

A computer model is described which is used to assess the dynamical complexity of a class of networks of spiking neurons with small-world properties. Networks are constructed by forming an initially segregated set of highly intra-connected…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Murray Shanahan

We propose a new approach to the problem of neural network expressivity, which seeks to characterize how structural properties of a neural network family affect the functions it is able to compute. Our approach is based on an interrelated…

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A key question in biological systems is whether genetic diversity persists in the long run under evolutionary competition or whether a single dominant genotype emerges. Classic work by Kalmus in 1945 has established that even in simple…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2015-10-23 Ruta Mehta , Ioannis Panageas , Georgios Piliouras , Sadra Yazdanbod

Consider a binary string $x$ of length $n$ whose Kolmogorov complexity is $\alpha n$ for some $\alpha<1$. We want to increase the complexity of $x$ by changing a small fraction of bits in $x$. This is always possible: Buhrman, Fortnow,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-17 Gleb Posobin , Alexander Shen

High dimensional data can have a surprising property: pairs of data points may be easily separated from each other, or even from arbitrary subsets, with high probability using just simple linear classifiers. However, this is more of a rule…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Oliver J. Sutton , Qinghua Zhou , Alexander N. Gorban , Ivan Y. Tyukin

Functional complex networks have meant a pivotal change in the way we understand complex systems, being the most outstanding one the human brain. These networks have classically been reconstructed using a frequentist approach that, while…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2018-03-14 Massimiliano Zanin , Seddik Belkoura , Javier Gomez , Cesar Alfaro , Javier Cano