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A measure for the complexity of a differentiable function f(x) on an interval is introduced. It is based on approximations of the function by piecewise constant functions. The measure takes into account the quality of the approximation and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Matthijs Ruijgrok

The aim of this paper is to propose an alternative behavioural definition of computation (and of a computer) based simply on whether a system is capable of reacting to the environment-the input-as reflected in a measure of programmability.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-11-26 Hector Zenil

Evaluating difficulty and biases in machine learning models has become of extreme importance as current models are now being applied in real-world situations. In this paper we present a simple method for calculating a difficulty score based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Octavio Arriaga , Matias Valdenegro-Toro

A weighted automaton is functional if any two accepting runs on the same finite word have the same value. In this paper, we investigate functional weighted automata for four different measures: the sum, the mean, the discounted sum of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Emmanuel Filiot , Raffaella Gentilini , Jean-François Raskin

The ability to estimate task difficulty is critical for many real-world decisions such as setting appropriate goals for ourselves or appreciating others' accomplishments. Here we give a computational account of how humans judge the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Ilker Yildirim , Basil Saeed , Grace Bennett-Pierre , Tobias Gerstenberg , Joshua Tenenbaum , Hyowon Gweon

We are given a set of elements in a metric space. The distribution of the elements is arbitrary, possibly adversarial. Can we weigh the elements in a way that is resistant to such (adversarial) manipulations? This problem arises in various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Damien Berriaud , Roger Wattenhofer

Natural language is compositional; the meaning of a sentence is a function of the meaning of its parts. This property allows humans to create and interpret novel sentences, generalizing robustly outside their prior experience. Neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Henry Conklin , Bailin Wang , Kenny Smith , Ivan Titov

We prove a complexity dichotomy theorem for all non-negative weighted counting Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSP). This caps a long series of important results on counting problems including unweighted and weighted graph homomorphisms…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-12-30 Jin-Yi Cai , Xi Chen , Pinyan Lu

Generalized equations are problems emerging in contexts of modern variational analysis as an adequate formalism to treat such issues as constraint systems, optimality and equilibrium conditions, variational inequalities, differential…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-06 A Uderzo

Average-case analysis computes the complexity of an algorithm averaged over all possible inputs. Compared to worst-case analysis, it is more representative of the typical behavior of an algorithm, but remains largely unexplored in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-05 Courtney Paquette , Bart van Merriënboer , Elliot Paquette , Fabian Pedregosa

We study the computational complexity of a robust version of the problem of testing two univariate C-finite functions for eventual inequality at large times. Specifically, working in the bit-model of real computation, we consider the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Eike Neumann

We analyse the complexity of environments according to the policies that need to be used to achieve high performance. The performance results for a population of policies leads to a distribution that is examined in terms of policy…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-02-11 Jose Hernandez-Orallo

We give a complexity dichotomy theorem for the counting Constraint Satisfaction Problem (#CSP in short) with complex weights. To this end, we give three conditions for its tractability. Let F be any finite set of complex-valued functions,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Jin-Yi Cai , Xi Chen

Understanding generalization in deep learning is arguably one of the most important questions in deep learning. Deep learning has been successfully adopted to a large number of problems ranging from pattern recognition to complex decision…

We simplify the proof of some widely used theoretical theorems, extending their applicability, while correcting some erroneous results. We also generalize key results and present new results that contribute to the development of the theory.…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-10-02 V. E. Sándor Szabó

A general and relatively simple method for construction of multivariate goodness-of-fit tests is introduced. The proposed test is applied to elliptical distributions. The method is based on a characterization of probability distributions…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-06-22 Feifei Chen , M. Dolores Jiménez-Gamero , Simos Meintanis , Lixing Zhu

Although recent works have brought some insights into the performance improvement of techniques used in state-of-the-art deep-learning models, more work is needed to understand their generalization properties. We shed light on this matter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Mahsa Forouzesh , Farnood Salehi , Patrick Thiran

Clustering analysis of functional data, which comprises observations that evolve continuously over time or space, has gained increasing attention across various scientific disciplines. Practical applications often involve functional data…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-06-19 Tingyu Zhu , Lan Xue , Carmen Tekwe , Keith Diaz , Mark Benden , Roger Zoh

Genome-wide association analysis has generated much discussion about how to preserve power to detect signals despite the detrimental effect of multiple testing on power. We develop a weighted multiple testing procedure that facilitates the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Kathryn Roeder , Bernie Devlin , Larry Wasserman

Virtually all machine learning tasks are characterized using some form of loss function, and "good performance" is typically stated in terms of a sufficiently small average loss, taken over the random draw of test data. While optimizing for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-12-01 Matthew J. Holland , Kazuki Tanabe