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Logic · Mathematics 2021-03-09 Douglas Cenzer , Christopher P. Porter

A simple method to produce a random order type is to take the order type of a random point set. We conjecture that many probability distributions on order types defined in this way are heavily concentrated and therefore sample inefficiently…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Olivier Devillers , Philippe Duchon , Marc Glisse , Xavier Goaoc

We investigate the connection between measure, capacity and algorithmic randomness for the space of closed sets. For any computable measure m, a computable capacity T may be defined by letting T(Q) be the measure of the family of closed…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Douglas Cenzer , Paul Brodhead , Ferit Toska , Sebastian Wyman

When there exists uncertainty, AI machines are designed to make decisions so as to reach the best expected outcomes. Expectations are based on true facts about the objective environment the machines interact with, and those facts can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Jinsook Kim

A concept of randomness for infinite time register machines (ITRMs), resembling Martin-L\"of-randomness, is defined and studied. In particular, we show that for this notion of randomness, computability from mutually random reals implies…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Merlin Carl

We obtain an index of the complexity of a random sequence by allowing the role of the measure in classical probability theory to be played by a function we call the generating mechanism. Typically, this generating mechanism will be a finite…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2008-12-11 Finn Macleod , James Gleeson

We discuss various universality aspects of numerical computations using standard algorithms. These aspects include empirical observations and rigorous results. We also make various speculations about computation in a broader sense.

Probability · Mathematics 2017-03-24 Percy Deift , Thomas Trogdon

Quantum amplitude amplification and estimation have shown quadratic speedups to unstructured search and estimation tasks. We show that a coherent combination of these quantum algorithms also provides a quadratic speedup to calculating the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-03 Caleb Rotello

We introduce a general class of algorithms and supply a number of general results useful for analysing these algorithms when applied to regular graphs of large girth. As a result, we can transfer a number of results proved for random…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-03-06 Carlos Hoppen , Nicholas Wormald

This article expands our work in [Ca16]. By its reliance on Turing computability, the classical theory of effectivity, along with effective reducibility and Weihrauch reducibility, is only applicable to objects that are either countable or…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Merlin Carl

Contrary to the classical case, the relation between quantum programming languages and quantum Turing Machines (QTM) has not being fully investigated. In particular, there are features of QTMs that have not been exploited, a notable example…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Stefano Guerrini , Simone Martini , Andrea Masini

Data Science and Machine learning have been growing strong for the past decade. We argue that to make the most of this exciting field we should resist the temptation of assuming that forecasting can be reduced to brute-force data analytics.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Hykel Hosni , Angelo Vulpiani

In a prequential approach to algorithmic randomness, probabilities for the next outcome can be forecast `on the fly' without the need for fully specifying a probability measure on all possible sequences of outcomes, as is the case in the…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-04-26 Floris Persiau , Gert de Cooman

We apply recent ideas about complexity and randomness to the philosophy of laws and chances. We develop two ways to use algorithmic randomness to characterize probabilistic laws of nature. The first, a generative chance* law, employs a…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Jeffrey A. Barrett , Eddy Keming Chen

A new class of functions is presented. The structure of the algorithm, particularly the selection criteria (branching), is used to define the fundamental property of the new class. The most interesting property of the new functions is that…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Rade Vuckovac

In this article we demonstrate how algorithmic probability theory is applied to situations that involve uncertainty. When people are unsure of their model of reality, then the outcome they observe will cause them to update their beliefs. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-05-26 Phil Maguire , Philippe Moser , Rebecca Maguire , Mark Keane

We introduce probability estimation, a broadly applicable framework to certify randomness in a finite sequence of measurement results without assuming that these results are independent and identically distributed. Probability estimation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-30 Yanbao Zhang , Emanuel Knill , Peter Bierhorst

Kolmogorov complexity and algorithmic probability are defined only up to an additive resp. multiplicative constant, since their actual values depend on the choice of the universal reference computer. In this paper, we analyze a natural…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-03-29 Markus Mueller

We show algorithmic randomness versions of the two classical theorems on subsequences of normal numbers. One is Kamae-Weiss theorem (Kamae 1973) on normal numbers, which characterize the selection function that preserves normal numbers.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-01 Hayato Takahashi

TThe problem is to identify a probability associated with a set of natural numbers, given an infinite data sequence of elements from the set. If the given sequence is drawn i.i.d. and the probability mass function involved (the target)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-07-14 Paul M. B. Vitanyi , Nick Chater