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Boolean formulae compactly encode huge, constrained search spaces. Thus, variability-intensive systems are often encoded with Boolean formulae. The search space of a variability-intensive system is usually too large to explore without…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Olivier Zeyen , Maxime Cordy , Martin Gubri , Gilles Perrouin , Mathieu Acher

A measure called Physical Complexity is established and calculated for a population of sequences, based on statistical physics, automata theory, and information theory. It is a measure of the quantity of information in an organism's genome.…

Biological Physics · Physics 2011-12-02 Gerard Briscoe , Philippe De Wilde

Conventional and current wisdom assumes that the brain represents probability as a continuous number to many decimal places. This assumption seems implausible given finite and scarce resources in the brain. Quantization is an information…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-01-07 James Tee , Desmond P. Taylor

The statistical properties of the phases of several modes nonlinearly coupled in a random system are investigated by means of a Hamiltonian model with disordered couplings. The regime in which the modes have a stationary distribution of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-09-14 Claudio Conti , Luca Leuzzi

The complexity of visual stimuli plays an important role in many cognitive phenomena, including attention, engagement, memorability, time perception and aesthetic evaluation. Despite its importance, complexity is poorly understood and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Tingke Shen , Surabhi S Nath , Aenne Brielmann , Peter Dayan

Information entropy is applied to the state of knowledge of reaction amplitudes in pseudoscalar meson photoproduction, and a scheme is developed that quantifies the information content of a measured set of polarization observables. It is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-09-02 D. G. Ireland

Complex systems are often modeled as Boolean networks in attempts to capture their logical structure and reveal its dynamical consequences. Approximating the dynamics of continuous variables by discrete values and Boolean logic gates may,…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2013-05-29 Johannes Norrell , Joshua E. S. Socolar

We revisit the long-standing question of the relation between image appreciation and its statistical properties. We generate two different sets of random images well distributed along three measures of entropic complexity. We run a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-01 Samy Lakhal , Alexandre Darmon , Jean-Philippe Bouchaud , Michael Benzaquen

How much does a single image reveal about the environment it was taken in? In this paper, we investigate how much of that information can be retrieved from a foreground object, combined with the background (i.e. the visible part of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Stamatios Georgoulis , Konstantinos Rematas , Tobias Ritschel , Mario Fritz , Tinne Tuytelaars , Luc Van Gool

We define the relevant information in a signal $x\in X$ as being the information that this signal provides about another signal $y\in \Y$. Examples include the information that face images provide about the names of the people portrayed, or…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 Naftali Tishby , Fernando C. Pereira , William Bialek

We analyze complex networks under random matrix theory framework. Particularly, we show that $\Delta_3$ statistic, which gives information about the long range correlations among eigenvalues, provides a qualitative measure of randomness in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Sarika Jalan , Jayendra N. Bandyopadhyay

The recent statistical theory of neural networks focuses on nonparametric denoising problems that treat randomness as additive noise. Variability in image classification datasets does, however, not originate from additive noise but from…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Juntong Chen , Sophie Langer , Johannes Schmidt-Hieber

Random field and random cluster theory are used to describe certain mathematical results concerning the probability distribution of image pixel intensities characterized as generic $2D$ integer arrays. The size of the smallest bounded…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-27 Robert A. Murphy

We study a simple model of the stochastic information filtering, in a randomly organized information system. For simplest versions of the model it appears to be possible to describe the filtering dynamics in terms of the master equations.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 I. S. Manida , Yu. M. Pis'mak

The spectra of random feature matrices provide essential information on the conditioning of the linear system used in random feature regression problems and are thus connected to the consistency and generalization of random feature models.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-12-13 Zhijun Chen , Hayden Schaeffer , Rachel Ward

The study of the dynamics of the size of a population via mathematical modelling is a problem of interest and widely studied. Traditionally, continuous deterministic methods based on differential equations have been used to deal with this…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-01-08 J. -C. Cortés , A. Navarro-Quiles , J. -V. Romero , M. -D. Roselló

Dominant areas of computer science and computation systems are intensively linked to the hypercube-related studies and interpretations. This article presents some transformations and analytics for some example algorithms and Boolean domain…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Levon Aslanyan , Irina Arsenyan , Vilik Karakhanyan , Hasmik Sahakyan

Uncertainty quantification in image retrieval is crucial for downstream decisions, yet it remains a challenging and largely unexplored problem. Current methods for estimating uncertainties are poorly calibrated, computationally expensive,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Frederik Warburg , Martin Jørgensen , Javier Civera , Søren Hauberg

Clustering is a crucial task in various domains of knowledge, including medicine, epidemiology, genomics, environmental science, economics, and visual sciences, among others. Methodologies for inferring the number of clusters have often…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-05-26 Clara Grazian

By using finite resolution measurements it is possible to simultaneously obtain noisy information on two non-commuting polarization components of a single photon. This method can be applied to a pair of entangled photons with polarization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Holger F. Hofmann