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We analyze the effect of lossy compression in the processing of sensor signals that must be used to detect anomalous events in the system under observation. The intuitive relationship between the quality loss at higher compression and the…
We model certain features of human language complexity by means of advanced concepts borrowed from statistical mechanics. Using a time series approach, the diffusion entropy method (DE), we compute the complexity of an Italian corpus of…
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Semi-supervised learning is a powerful technique for leveraging unlabeled data to improve machine learning models, but it can be affected by the presence of ``informative'' labels, which occur when some classes are more likely to be labeled…