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An information theoretic measure is derived that quantifies the statistical coherence between systems evolving in time. The standard time delayed mutual information fails to distinguish information that is actually exchanged from shared…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 Thomas Schreiber

Although there is growing interest in measuring integrated information in computational and cognitive systems, current methods for doing so in practice are computationally unfeasible. Existing and novel integration measures are investigated…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-02-08 Max Tegmark

This paper studies the sample complexity (aka number of comparisons) bounds for the active best-$k$ items selection from pairwise comparisons. From a given set of items, the learner can make pairwise comparisons on every pair of items, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Wenbo Ren , Jia Liu , Ness B. Shroff

We study the top-$K$ ranking problem where the goal is to recover the set of top-$K$ ranked items out of a large collection of items based on partially revealed preferences. We consider an adversarial crowdsourced setting where there are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-02-16 Changho Suh , Vincent Y. F. Tan , Renbo Zhao

In this paper, we formulate a top-k query that compares objects in a database to a user-provided query object on a novel scoring function. The proposed scoring function combines the idea of attractive and repulsive dimensions into a general…

Databases · Computer Science 2011-12-01 Sayan Ranu , Ambuj K. Singh

Given the increasing popularity of algorithms for overlapping clustering, in particular in social network analysis, quantitative measures are needed to measure the accuracy of a method. Given a set of true clusters, and the set of clusters…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-08-05 Aaron F. McDaid , Derek Greene , Neil Hurley

Real-world data typically contain a large number of features that are often heterogeneous in nature, relevance, and also units of measure. When assessing the similarity between data points, one can build various distance measures using…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-05-27 Aldo Glielmo , Claudio Zeni , Bingqing Cheng , Gabor Csanyi , Alessandro Laio

The problem of ranking can be described as follows. We have a set of combinatorial objects $S$, such as, say, the k-subsets of n things, and we can imagine that they have been arranged in some list, say lexicographically, and we want to…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Boris Ryabko

Comparing alternatives in pairs is a very well known technique of ranking creation. The answer to how reliable and trustworthy ranking is depends on the inconsistency of the data from which it was created. There are many indices used for…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Konrad Kułakowski , Dawid Talaga

When many labels are possible, choosing a single one can lead to low precision. A common alternative, referred to as top-$K$ classification, is to choose some number $K$ (commonly around 5) and to return the $K$ labels with the highest…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-17 Titouan Lorieul , Alexis Joly , Dennis Shasha

Analogical reasoning depends fundamentally on the ability to learn and generalize about relations between objects. We develop an approach to relational learning which, given a set of pairs of objects…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-08-30 Ricardo Silva , Katherine Heller , Zoubin Ghahramani , Edoardo M. Airoldi

Comparing networks is essential for a number of downstream tasks, from clustering to anomaly detection. Despite higher-order interactions being critical for understanding the dynamics of complex systems, traditional approaches for network…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-11-03 Helcio Felippe , Alec Kirkley , Federico Battiston

Many applications motivate the distance measure between rankings, such as comparing top-k lists and rank aggregation for voting, and intrigue great interest to researchers. For example, for a search engine, the use of different ranking…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-07-17 Jianwen Chen , Yiping Li , Ling Feng

As counterfactual examples become increasingly popular for explaining decisions of deep learning models, it is essential to understand what properties quantitative evaluation metrics do capture and equally important what they do not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Frederik Hvilshøj , Alexandros Iosifidis , Ira Assent

Algorithmic fairness is receiving significant attention in the academic and broader literature due to the increasing use of predictive algorithms, including those based on artificial intelligence. One benefit of this trend is that algorithm…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Pratyush Garg , John Villasenor , Virginia Foggo

Extracting higher-order structures from multivariate data has become an area of intensive study in complex systems science, as these multipartite interactions can reveal insights into fundamental features of complex systems like emergent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Thomas F. Varley

In the task of information retrieval the term relevance is taken to mean formal conformity of a document given by the retrieval system to user's information query. As a rule, the documents found by the retrieval system should be submitted…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-10-02 S. Braichevsky , D. Lande , A. Snarskii

Identifying leading measurement units from a large collection is a common inference task in various domains of large-scale inference. Testing approaches, which measure evidence against a null hypothesis rather than effect magnitude, tend to…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-11-17 Nicholas C. Henderson , Michael A. Newton

A wide range of tasks in network analysis, such as clustering network populations or identifying anomalies in temporal graph streams, require a measure of the similarity between two graphs. To provide a meaningful data summary for…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-10-15 Helcio Felippe , Federico Battiston , Alec Kirkley

Multivariate mutual information provides a conceptual framework for characterizing higher-order interactions in complex systems. Two well-known measures of multivariate information---total correlation and dual total correlation---admit a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Kyle Reing , Greg Ver Steeg , Aram Galstyan