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Persistence diagrams (PDs) are the most common descriptors used to encode the topology of structured data appearing in challenging learning tasks; think e.g. of graphs, time series or point clouds sampled close to a manifold. Given random…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-05-12 Vincent Divol , Théo Lacombe

Background: Transitioning from an old medical coding system to a new one can be challenging, especially when the two coding systems are significantly different. The US experienced such a transition in 2015. Objective: This research aims to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Jerome Niyirora

Given a drawing of a graph, its \emph{visual complexity} is defined as the number of geometrical entities in the drawing, for example, the number of segments in a straight-line drawing or the number of arcs in a circular-arc drawing (in…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Myroslav Kryven , Alexander Ravsky , Alexander Wolff

This study addresses the problem of learning a summary causal graph on time series with potentially different sampling rates. To do so, we first propose a new causal temporal mutual information measure for time series. We then show how this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Charles K. Assaad , Emilie Devijver , Eric Gaussier

Permutation Entropy, introduced by Bandt and Pompe, is a widely used complexity measure for real-valued time series that is based on the relative order of values within consecutive segments of fixed length. After standardizing each segment…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Abhijeet Avhale , Joscha Diehl , Niraj Velankar , Emanuele Verri

Evidence theory is that the extension of probability can better deal with unknowns and inaccurate information. Uncertainty measurement plays a vital role in both evidence theory and probability theory. Approximate Entropy (ApEn) is proposed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Tianxiang Zhan , Yuanpeng He , Hanwen Li , Fuyuan Xiao

The von Neumann entropy of a graph is a spectral complexity measure that has recently found applications in complex networks analysis and pattern recognition. Two variants of the von Neumann entropy exist based on the graph Laplacian and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 Giorgia Minello , Luca Rossi , Andrea Torsello

We analyze complexity in spatial network ensembles through the lens of graph entropy. Mathematically, we model a spatial network as a soft random geometric graph, i.e., a graph with two sources of randomness, namely nodes located randomly…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-05-02 Justin P. Coon , Carl P. Dettmann , Orestis Georgiou

The entropy of a graph was first introduced by Rashevsky \cite{Rashevsky} and Trucco \cite{Trucco} to interpret as the structural information content of the graph and serve as a complexity measure. In this paper, we first state a number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-20 Xueliang Li , Meiqin Wei

In nonlinear dynamics, and to a lesser extent in other fields, a widely used measure of complexity is the Permutation Entropy. But there is still no known method to determine the accuracy of this measure. There has been little research on…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-11-22 Francisco Traversaro , Francisco Redelico

Entropy has been a common index to quantify the complexity of time series in a variety of fields. Here, we introduce increment entropy to measure the complexity of time series in which each increment is mapped into a word of two letters,…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2016-01-20 Xiaofeng Liu , Aimin Jiang , Ning Xu , Jianru Xue

Users are tapping into massive, heterogeneous entity graphs for many applications. It is challenging to select entity graphs for a particular need, given abundant datasets from many sources and the oftentimes scarce information for them. We…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-05-05 Ning Yan , Sona Hasani , Abolfazl Asudeh , Chengkai Li

Inspired by the visualization of dental plaque at the dentist's office, this article proposes a novel visualization of redundancies in relational data. Our approach is based on a well-principled information-theoretic framework that has so…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Christoph Köhnen , Stefan Klessinger , Jens Zumbrägel , Stefanie Scherzinger

Graph mining to extract interesting components has been studied in various guises, e.g., communities, dense subgraphs, cliques. However, most existing works are based on notions of frequency and connectivity and do not capture subjective…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-08-15 Hao Wu , Maoyuan Sun , Jilles Vreeken , Nikolaj Tatti , Chris North , Naren Ramakrishnan

Approximate entropy (ApEn) and sample entropy (SampEn) are widely used for temporal complexity analysis of real-world phenomena. However, their relationship with the Hurst exponent as a measure of self-similarity is not widely studied.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-12-17 Amir Omidvarnia , Mostefa Mesbah , Mangor Pedersen , Graeme Jackson

We characterize different cell states, related to cancer and ageing phenotypes, by a measure of entropy of network ensembles, integrating gene expression values and protein interaction networks. The entropy measure estimates the parameter…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2013-05-24 G. Menichetti , G. Bianconi , E. Giampieri , G. Castellani , D. Remondini

On account of a greater need for understanding the complexity of time series like physiological time series, financial time series, and many more that enter into picture for their inculpation with real-world problems, several complexity…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-02-26 Ritik Roshan Giri , Suchandan Kayal

Notions of graph similarity provide alternative perspective on the graph isomorphism problem and vice-versa. In this paper, we consider measures of similarity arising from mismatch norms as studied in Gervens and Grohe: the edit distance…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-05-07 He Sun , Danny Vagnozzi

Recent advancements in vision models have greatly improved their ability to handle complex chart understanding tasks, like chart captioning and question answering. However, it remains challenging to assess how these models process charts.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Soohyun Lee , Minsuk Chang , Seokhyeon Park , Jinwook Seo

There is no single universally accepted definition of "Complexity". There are several perspectives on complexity and what constitutes complex behaviour or complex systems, as opposed to regular, predictable behaviour and simple systems. In…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2018-01-17 Nithin Nagaraj , Karthi Balasubramanian