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Knockout tournaments, also known as single-elimination or cup tournaments, are a popular form of sports competitions. In the standard probabilistic setting, for each pairing of players, one of the players wins the game with a certain (a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Juhi Chaudhary , Hendrik Molter , Meirav Zehavi

The game of SET is a popular card game in which the objective is to form Sets using cards from a special deck. In this paper we study single- and multi-round variations of this game from the computational complexity point of view and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-09-26 Michael Lampis , Valia Mitsou

Explaining the behaviour of intelligent systems will get increasingly and perhaps intractably challenging as models grow in size and complexity. We may not be able to expect an explanation for every prediction made by a brain-scale model,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Advait Sarkar

We establish diverse relationships between the algorithmic (Kolmogorov) complexity of the prefixes of any binary expansion and $\beta$-expansions. These relationships allow to develop intuitions on the complexity behavior of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Valentin Abadie , Helmut Boelcskei

We develop a general game-theoretic framework for reasoning about strategic agents performing possibly costly computation. In this framework, many traditional game-theoretic results (such as the existence of a Nash equilibrium) no longer…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-12-10 Joseph Y. Halpern , Rafael Pass

We study an evolutionary game of chance in which the probabilities for different outcomes (e.g., heads or tails) depend on the amount wagered on those outcomes. The game is perhaps the simplest possible probabilistic game in which…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-08-29 Dmitriy Cherkashin , J. Doyne Farmer , Seth Lloyd

We propose a measure based upon the fundamental theoretical concept in algorithmic information theory that provides a natural approach to the problem of evaluating $n$-dimensional complexity by using an $n$-dimensional deterministic Turing…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-08-27 Hector Zenil , Fernando Soler-Toscano , Jean-Paul Delahaye , Nicolas Gauvrit

The Coding Theorem of L.A. Levin connects unconditional prefix Kolmogorov complexity with the discrete universal distribution. There are conditional versions referred to in several publications but as yet there exist no written proofs in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-23 Paul M. B. Vitanyi

We extend the concept of Krylov complexity to include general unitary evolutions involving multiple generators. This generalization enables us to formulate a framework for generalized Krylov complexity, which serves as a measure of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-14 Amin Faraji Astaneh , Niloofar Vardian

We survey the diverse approaches to the notion of information content: from Shannon entropy to Kolmogorov complexity. The main applications of Kolmogorov complexity are presented namely, the mathematical notion of randomness (which goes…

Logic · Mathematics 2008-01-03 Marie Ferbus-Zanda , Serge Grigorieff

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

Algorithmic statistics has two different (and almost orthogonal) motivations. From the philosophical point of view, it tries to formalize how the statistics works and why some statistical models are better than others. After this notion of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Nikolai Vereshchagin , Alexander Shen

We study the determinacy of the game G_kappa (A) introduced in [FKSh:549] for uncountable regular kappa and several classes of partial orderings A. Among trees or Boolean algebras, we can always find an A such that G_kappa (A) is…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Sakaé Fuchino , Sabine Koppelberg , Saharon Shelah

We study the relative succinctness and expressiveness of modal logics, and prove that these relationships can be as complex as any countable partial order. For this, we use two uniform formalisms to define modal operators, and obtain…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-10-23 Henning Schnoor

Using relativized ordinal analysis, we give a proof-theoretic characterization of the provably total set-recursive-from-$\omega$ functions of KPl and related theories.

Logic · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Juan Pablo Aguilera , Anton Fernández , Joost J. Joosten

By using the properties of the uniformly distributed sequences of real numbers on $(0,1)$, a short proof of a certain version of Kolmogorov strong law of large numbers is presented which essentially differs from Kolmogorov's original proof.

Probability · Mathematics 2016-01-13 Gogi R. Pantsulaia

Optimizing strategic decisions (a.k.a. computing equilibrium) is key to the success of many non-cooperative multi-agent applications. However, in many real-world situations, we may face the exact opposite of this game-theoretic problem --…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Jibang Wu , Weiran Shen , Fei Fang , Haifeng Xu

We compare here the relative strength of four widely used procedures on finite strategic games: iterated elimination of weakly/strictly dominated strategies by a pure/mixed strategy. A complication is that none of these procedures is based…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2007-06-13 Krzysztof R. Apt

Complexity theory is a useful tool to study computational issues surrounding the elicitation of preferences, as well as the strategic manipulation of elections aggregating together preferences of multiple agents. We study here the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-04-18 Toby Walsh

In this paper we introduce a new approach for the study of the complex behavior of Minority Game using the tools of algorithmic complexity, physical entropy and information theory. We show that physical complexity and mutual information…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ricardo Mansilla Corona