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The concept of effective complexity of an object as the minimal description length of its regularities has been initiated by Gell-Mann and Lloyd. The regularities are modeled by means of ensembles, that is probability distributions on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-18 Nihat Ay , Markus Mueller , Arleta Szkola

The ability to precisely quantify similarity between various entities has been a fundamental complication in various problem spaces specifically in the classification of cellular images. Contemporary similarity measures applied in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-04 D Yoan L. Mekontchou Yomba

We extend the concept of Krylov complexity to include general unitary evolutions involving multiple generators. This generalization enables us to formulate a framework for generalized Krylov complexity, which serves as a measure of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-14 Amin Faraji Astaneh , Niloofar Vardian

A $c$-short program for a string $x$ is a description of $x$ of length at most $C(x) + c$, where $C(x)$ is the Kolmogorov complexity of $x$. We show that there exists a randomized algorithm that constructs a list of $n$ elements that…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-01-21 Bruno Bauwens , Marius Zimand

Information distance is a parameter-free similarity measure based on compression, used in pattern recognition, data mining, phylogeny, clustering, and classification. The notion of information distance is extended from pairs to multiples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2009-05-21 Paul M. B. Vitanyi

Multilayer networks preserve full information about the different interactions among the constituents of a complex system, and have recently proven quite useful in modelling transportation networks, social circles, and the human brain. A…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-06-29 Andrea Santoro , Vincenzo Nicosia

The (prefix-free) Kolmogorov complexity of a finite binary string is the length of the shortest description of the string. This gives rise to some `standard' lowness notions for reals: A is K-trivial if its initial segments have the lowest…

Logic · Mathematics 2014-10-15 Ian Herbert

Since human randomness production has been studied and widely used to assess executive functions (especially inhibition), many measures have been suggested to assess the degree to which a sequence is random-like. However, each of them…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-12-10 Nicolas Gauvrit , Hector Zenil , Jean-Paul Delahaye , Fernando Soler-Toscano

Depth of an object concerns a tradeoff between computation time and excess of program length over the shortest program length required to obtain the object. It gives an unconditional lower bound on the computation time from a given program…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-09-16 Luis Antunes , Armando Matos , Andre Souto , Paul Vitanyi

We show that Kolmogorov complexity and such its estimators as universal codes (or data compression methods) can be applied for hypotheses testing in a framework of classical mathematical statistics. The methods for identity testing and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Boris Ryabko , Jaakko Astola , Alex Gammerman

Information entropy is used to summarize transcriptome data, but ignoring zero count data contained them. Ignoring zero count data causes loss of information and sometimes it was difficult to distinguish between multiple transcriptomes.…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2017-04-13 Panpaki Seekaki , Norichika Ogata

We have proposed novel measures based on the Kolmogorov complexity for use in complex system behavior studies and time series analysis. We have considered background of the Kolmogorov complexity and also we have discussed meaning of the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2013-10-07 Dragutin T. Mihailovic , Gordan Mimic , Emilija Nikolic-Djoric , Ilija Arsenic

Normalized information distance (NID) uses the theoretical notion of Kolmogorov complexity, which for practical purposes is approximated by the length of the compressed version of the file involved, using a real-world compression program.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-06-17 Sebastiaan A. Terwijn , Leen Torenvliet , Paul M. B. Vitanyi

Normalized information distance (NID) uses the theoretical notion of Kolmogorov complexity, which for practical purposes is approximated by the length of the compressed version of the file involved, using a real-world compression program.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-10-23 Sebastiaan A. Terwijn , Leen Torenvliet , Paul M. B. Vitanyi

In Monoidal Computer I, we introduced a categorical model of computation where the formal reasoning about computability was supported by the simple and popular diagrammatic language of string diagrams. In the present paper, we refine and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-02-25 Dusko Pavlovic

Sophistication and logical depth are two measures that express how complicated the structure in a string is. Sophistication is defined as the minimal complexity of a computable function that defines a two-part description for the string…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-30 Luís Antunes , Bruno Bauwens , Andre Souto , Andreia Teixeira

Any positive word comprised of random sequence of tokens form a finite alphabet can be reduced (without change of length) using an appropriate size Braid group relationships. Surprisingly the Braid relations dramatically reduce the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-08-20 Dara O Shayda

After reviewing unnormalized and normalized information distances based on incomputable notions of Kolmogorov complexity, we discuss how Kolmogorov complexity can be approximated by data compression algorithms. We argue that optimal…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Alexei Kaltchenko

We present a new similarity measure based on information theoretic measures which is superior than Normalized Compression Distance for clustering problems and inherits the useful properties of conditional Kolmogorov complexity. We show that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-10-22 Andrey Bogomolov , Bruno Lepri , Fabio Pianesi

According to Kolmogorov complexity, every finite binary string is compressible to a shortest code -- its information content -- from which it is effectively recoverable. We investigate the extent to which this holds for infinite binary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-23 George Barmpalias , Andrew Lewis-Pye