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We show how universal codes can be used for solving some of the most important statistical problems for time series. By definition, a universal code (or a universal lossless data compressor) can compress any sequence generated by a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-09-09 Boris Ryabko

Traditional image compression methods aim to reconstruct images for human perception, prioritizing visual fidelity over task relevance. In contrast, Coding for Machines focuses on preserving information essential for automated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-16 Stefano Della Fiore , Alessandro Gnutti , Marco Dalai , Pierangelo Migliorati , Riccardo Leonardi

We present a fully automatic method for music classification, based only on compression of strings that represent the music pieces. The method uses no background knowledge about music whatsoever: it is completely general and can, without…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Rudi Cilibrasi , Paul Vitanyi , Ronald de Wolf

Compression is at the heart of intelligence. A theoretically optimal way to compress any sequence of data is to find the shortest program that outputs that sequence and then halts. However, such 'Kolmogorov compression' is uncomputable, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Ori Yoran , Kunhao Zheng , Fabian Gloeckle , Jonas Gehring , Gabriel Synnaeve , Taco Cohen

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

We investigate how to measure and define the entropy of a simple chaotic system, three hard spheres on a ring. A novel approach is presented, which does not assume the ergodic hypothesis. It consists of transforming the particles collision…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-05-08 Matej Vedak , Graeme J Ackland

The rate of randomness (or dimension) of a string $\sigma$ is the ratio $C(\sigma)/|\sigma|$ where $C(\sigma)$ is the Kolmogorov complexity of $\sigma$. While it is known that a single computable transformation cannot increase the rate of…

Logic · Mathematics 2019-11-26 Laurent Bienvenu , Barbara F. Csima , Matthew Harrison-Trainor

People tend to store a lot of files inside theirs storage. When the storage nears it limit, they then try to reduce those files size to minimum by using data compression software. In this paper we propose a new algorithm for data…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-09-06 I. Made Agus Dwi Suarjaya

A prescription to calculate the minimum number of bits needed for binary strip detector readout is presented. This permits a systematic analysis of the readout efficiency relative to this theoretical minimum number of bits. Different level…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-17 Maurice Garcia-Sciveres , Xinkang Wang

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 address the problem of distributed computation of arbitrary functions of two correlated sources $X_1$ and $X_2$, residing in two distributed source nodes, respectively. We exploit the structure of a computation task by coding source…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Mohammad Reza Deylam Salehi , Derya Malak

The distinct elements problem is one of the fundamental problems in streaming algorithms --- given a stream of integers in the range $\{1,\ldots,n\}$, we wish to provide a $(1+\varepsilon)$ approximation to the number of distinct elements…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Jarosław Błasiok

This article describes a technique of using a trigonometric function and combinatorial calculations to code or transform any finite sequence of binary numbers (0s and 1s) of any length to a unique set of three Real numbers. In reverse,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-11-24 Alex Papalexis

The aim is formal principles of origin information and information process creating information observer self-creating information in interactive observations. The interactive phenomenon creates Yes-No actions of information Bits in its…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2019-10-08 Vladimir S. Lerner

In this paper, we investigate the problem of recovering source information from an incomplete set of network coded data. We first study the theoretical performance of such systems under maximum a posteriori (MAP) decoding and derive the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-16 Eirina Bourtsoulatze , Nikolaos Thomos , Pascal Frossard

We show an Omega(sqrt{n}/T) lower bound for the space required by any unidirectional constant-error randomized T-pass streaming algorithm that recognizes whether an expression over two types of parenthesis is well-parenthesized. This proves…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-07-11 Rahul Jain , Ashwin Nayak

The goal of lossy data compression is to reduce the storage cost of a data set $X$ while retaining as much information as possible about something ($Y$) that you care about. For example, what aspects of an image $X$ contain the most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Max Tegmark , Tailin Wu

We address the problem of nonparametric estimation of characteristics for stationary and ergodic time series. We consider finite-alphabet time series and real-valued ones and the following four problems: i) estimation of the (limiting)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-11-01 Boris Ryabko

We give simplify the proofs of the 2 results in Marius Zimand's paper "Kolmogorov complexity version of Slepian-Wolf coding, proceedings of STOC 2017, p22--32". The first is a universal polynomial time compression algorithm: on input…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-05 Bruno Bauwens

We study the intrinsic limitations of sequential convex optimization through the lens of feedback information theory. In the oracle model of optimization, an algorithm queries an {\em oracle} for noisy information about the unknown…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-09-12 Maxim Raginsky , Alexander Rakhlin