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In this paper we propose efficient methods for elicitation of complexly structured preferences and utilize these in problems of decision making under (severe) uncertainty. Based on the general framework introduced in Jansen, Schollmeyer and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Christoph Jansen , Hannah Blocher , Thomas Augustin , Georg Schollmeyer

Ashby's law of requisite variety allows a comparison of systems with their environments, providing a necessary (but not sufficient) condition for system efficacy: a system must possess at least as much complexity as any set of environmental…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-06-10 Alexander F. Siegenfeld , Yaneer Bar-Yam

Explanations in Machine Learning come in many forms, but a consensus regarding their desired properties is yet to emerge. In this paper we introduce a taxonomy and a set of descriptors that can be used to characterise and systematically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Kacper Sokol , Peter Flach

We define the notion of localizable property for a dynamical system. Then we survey three properties of complexity and relate how they are known to be typical among differentiable dynamical systems. These notions are the fast growth of the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Pierre Berger

In this paper, we focus on regression estimation in both the inductive and the transductive case. We assume that we are given a set of features (which can be a base of functions, but not necessarily). We begin by giving a deviation…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-26 Pierre Alquier

These notes contain, among others, a proof that the average running time of an easy solution to the satisfiability problem for propositional calculus is, under some reasonable assumptions, linear (with constant 2) in the size of the input.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-04-07 Marek A. Suchenek

Classical complexity theory measures the cost of computing a function, but many computational tasks require committing to one valid output among several. We introduce determination depth -- the minimum number of sequential layers of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Joseph M. Hellerstein

Models with intractable likelihood functions arise in areas including network analysis and spatial statistics, especially those involving Gibbs random fields. Posterior parameter es timation in these settings is termed a doubly-intractable…

Computation · Statistics 2018-10-16 Lampros Bouranis , Nial Friel , Florian Maire

Depth is a complexity measure for natural systems of the kind studied in statistical physics and is defined in terms of computational complexity. Depth quantifies the length of the shortest parallel computation required to construct a…

Popular Physics · Physics 2011-11-14 Jon Machta

Complexity is an interdisciplinary concept which, first of all, addresses the question of how order emerges out of randomness. For many reasons matrices provide a very practical and powerful tool in approaching and quantifying the related…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-12-18 S. Drozdz , J. Kwapien , J. Speth , M. Wojcik

Significant work has been done on learning regular expressions from a set of data values. Depending on the domain, this approach can be very successful. However, significant time is required to learn these expressions and the resulting…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Michael J. Mior

This work presents a new classifier that is specifically designed to be fully interpretable. This technique determines the probability of a class outcome, based directly on probability assignments measured from the training data. The…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-31 Sapan Agarwal , Corey M. Hudson

We propose a fairness measure relaxing the equality conditions in the popular equal odds fairness regime for classification. We design an iterative, model-agnostic, grid-based heuristic that calibrates the outcomes per sensitive attribute…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Meghanath Macha Y , Sriram Ravindran , Deepak Pai , Anish Narang , Vijay Srivastava

In this paper we design information elicitation mechanisms for Bayesian auctions. While in Bayesian mechanism design the distributions of the players' private types are often assumed to be common knowledge, information elicitation considers…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Jing Chen , Bo Li , Yingkai Li

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

We propose a new measure of deviations from expected utility theory. For any positive number~$e$, we give a characterization of the datasets with a rationalization that is within~$e$ (in beliefs, utility, or perceived prices) of expected…

General Economics · Economics 2021-02-15 Federico Echenique , Kota Saito , Taisuke Imai

In Requirements Engineering, requirements elicitation aims the acquisition of information from the stakeholders of a system-to-be. An important task during elicitation is to identify and render explicit the stakeholders' implicit…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-11-26 Corentin Burnay , Ivan Jureta , Stéphane Faulkner

We analyze the structure of the disagreement among a population of voters over a set of alternatives. Surveys typically ask either for pairwise comparisons, simple and intuitive for participants, or full rankings over alternatives,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Mohamed Ouaguenouni , Felipe Garrido-Lucero , Umberto Grandi , César Hidalgo , Magdalena Tydrichova

In machine learning, metric elicitation refers to the selection of performance metrics that best reflect an individual's implicit preferences for a given application. Currently, metric elicitation methods only consider metrics that depend…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Chethan Bhateja , Joseph O'Brien , Afnaan Hashmi , Eva Prakash

Language model evaluations often fail to characterize consequential failure modes, forcing experts to inspect outputs and build new benchmarks. We introduce task elicitation, a method that automatically builds new evaluations to profile…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Davis Brown , Prithvi Balehannina , Helen Jin , Shreya Havaldar , Hamed Hassani , Eric Wong