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This paper introduces a qualitative measure of ambiguity and analyses its relationship with other measures of uncertainty. Probability measures relative likelihoods, while ambiguity measures vagueness surrounding those judgments. Ambiguity…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-03-08 Michael S. K. M. Wong , Z. W. Wang

Complexity science offers a wide range of measures for quantifying unpredictability, structure, and information. Yet, a systematic conceptual organization of these measures is still missing. We present a unified framework that locates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Nima Dehghani

We explore a definition of complexity based on logic functions, which are widely used as compact descriptions of rules in diverse fields of contemporary science. Detailed numerical analysis shows that (i) logic complexity is effective in…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2016-03-11 Marco Gherardi , Pietro Rotondo

The human mind is known to be sensitive to complexity. For instance, the visual system reconstructs hidden parts of objects following a principle of maximum simplicity. We suggest here that higher cognitive processes, such as the selection…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-08-10 Jean-Louis Dessalles

How best to quantify the information of an object, whether natural or artifact, is a problem of wide interest. A related problem is the computability of an object. We present practical examples of a new way to address this problem. By…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-06-14 Fionn Murtagh

Large Language Models (LLMs) have benefited enormously from scaling, yet these gains are bounded by five fundamental limitations: (1) hallucination, (2) context compression, (3) reasoning degradation, (4) retrieval fragility, and (5)…

Recently, there has been a surge of interest in combining deep learning models with reasoning in order to handle more sophisticated learning tasks. In many cases, a reasoning task can be solved by an iterative algorithm. This algorithm is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Xinshi Chen , Yufei Zhang , Christoph Reisinger , Le Song

We compare several complexity measures for self-mappings of finite fields. In particular, we show that Carlitz rank and additive index cannot be small simultaneously up to trivial exceptions. That is, these two measures detect cryptographic…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Pierre-Yves Bienvenu , Arne Winterhof

A measure of complexity based on a probabilistic description of physical systems is proposed. This measure incorporates the main features of the intuitive notion of such a magnitude. It can be applied to many physical situations and to…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ricardo Lopez-Ruiz , Hector Mancini , Xavier Calbet

Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in formal theorem proving, but their token-level processing often fails to capture the inherent hierarchical nature of mathematical proofs. We introduce \textbf{Hierarchical Attention}, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Jianlong Chen , Chao Li , Yang Yuan , Andrew C Yao

Logic reasoning in natural language has been recognized as an important measure of human intelligence for Large Language Models (LLMs). Popular benchmarks may entangle multiple reasoning skills and thus provide unfaithful evaluations on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Tsz Ting Chung , Lemao Liu , Mo Yu , Dit-Yan Yeung

Written language is complex. A written text can be considered an attempt to convey a meaningful message which ends up being constrained by language rules, context dependence and highly redundant in its use of resources. Despite all these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-20 E. Estevez-Rams , A. Mesa Rodriguez , D. Estevez-Moya

The routine definitions of both entropy, and differential entropy show inconsistencies that make them not reciprocally coherent. We propose a few possible modifications of these quantities so that 1) they no longer show incongruities, 2)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-08 Nicola Cufaro Petroni

Reasoning is central to human intelligence, enabling structured problem-solving across diverse tasks. Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have greatly enhanced their reasoning abilities in arithmetic, commonsense, and symbolic…

Large reasoning models, often post-trained on long chain-of-thought (long CoT) data with reinforcement learning, achieve state-of-the-art performance on mathematical, coding, and domain-specific reasoning benchmarks. However, their logical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Hanmeng Liu , Yiran Ding , Zhizhang Fu , Chaoli Zhang , Xiaozhang Liu , Yue Zhang

Functional depth is used for ranking functional observations from most outlying to most typical. The ranks produced by functional depth have been proposed as the basis for functional classifiers, rank tests, and data visualization…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-11-02 James P. Long , Jianhua Z. Huang

Reasoning is a fundamentally algorithmic task. Yet current work on LLM-based reasoning relies on free-form generation whose theoretical guarantees (soundness, completeness, complexity, optimality) remain poorly understood. We argue that we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Supriya Lall , Christian Farrell , Hari Pathanjaly , Marko Pavic , Sarvesh Chezhian , Masataro Asai

In an attempt to better understand generalization in deep learning, we study several possible explanations. We show that implicit regularization induced by the optimization method is playing a key role in generalization and success of deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-11 Behnam Neyshabur

We introduce a robust belief-based measure of complexity. The idea is that task A is deemed more complex than task B if the probability of solving A correctly is smaller than the probability of solving B correctly regardless of the reward.…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-01-17 Egor Bronnikov , Elias Tsakas

This paper studies whether rationality can be computed. Rationality is defined as the use of complete information, which is processed with a perfect biological or physical brain, in an optimized fashion. To compute rationality one needs to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Tshilidzi Marwala