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In analogy of classical Kolmogorov complexity we develop a theory of the algorithmic information in bits contained in any one of continuously many pure quantum states: quantum Kolmogorov complexity. Classical Kolmogorov complexity coincides…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paul Vitanyi

We study the complexity of the model checking problem, for fixed model A, over certain fragments L of first-order logic. These are sometimes known as the expression complexities of L. We obtain various complexity classification theorems for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Barnaby Martin

In this study, the output of large language models (LLM) is considered an information source generating an unlimited sequence of symbols drawn from a finite alphabet. Given the probabilistic nature of modern LLMs, we assume a probabilistic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Marco Scharringhausen

The paper examines and critiques the expression of entropy as the logarithm of the number of quantum states of a physical system. Boltzmann method of expressing entropy as the logarithm of the number of states of a gas with a given total…

General Physics · Physics 2026-02-09 Maria Polski , Vladimir Skrebnev

Large Language Models (LLMs) offer new potential for automating documentation-to-code traceability, yet their capabilities remain underexplored. We present a comprehensive evaluation of LLMs (Claude 3.5 Sonnet, GPT-4o, and o3-mini) in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Ebube Alor , SayedHassan Khatoonabadi , Emad Shihab

We start the study of the enumeration complexity of different satisfiability problems in first-order team logics. Since many of our problems go beyond DelP, we use a framework for hard enumeration analogous to the polynomial hierarchy,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Anselm Haak , Arne Meier , Fabian Müller , Heribert Vollmer

Large Language Models (LLMs) are known to memorize portions of their training data, sometimes even reproduce content verbatim when prompted appropriately. Despite substantial interest, existing LLM memorization research has offered limited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yizhan Huang , Zhe Yang , Meifang Chen , Huang Nianchen , Jianping Zhang , Michael R. Lyu

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in language generation and general task performance. However, their application to spoken language understanding (SLU) remains challenging, particularly for token-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Shangjian Yin , Peijie Huang , Jiatian Chen , Haojing Huang , Yuhong Xu

We survey and introduce concepts and tools located at the intersection of information theory and network biology. We show that Shannon's information entropy, compressibility and algorithmic complexity quantify different local and global…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2015-12-14 Hector Zenil , Narsis A. Kiani , Jesper Tegnér

The formal reasoning capabilities of LLMs are crucial for advancing automated software engineering. However, existing benchmarks for LLMs lack systematic evaluation based on computation and complexity, leaving a critical gap in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Yihong Dong , Jianha Xiao , Xue Jiang , Xuyuan Guo , Zhiyuan Fan , Jiaru Qian , Kechi Zhang , Jia Li , Zhi Jin , Ge Li

The first-order theory of MALL (multiplicative, additive linear logic) over only equalities is an interesting but weak logic since it cannot capture unbounded (infinite) behavior. Instead of accounting for unbounded behavior via the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-12-02 David Baelde

The connection between the Maximum Entropy (MaxEnt) formalism and Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs) is natural, as both give rise to a Boltzmann-like distribution with constraints enforced by Lagrange multipliers, which corresponds to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-07 Vinit Singh , Rishabh Gupta , Manas Sajjan , Francoise Remacle , Raphael D. Levine , Sabre Kais

Ensemble of initial conditions for nonlinear maps can be described in terms of entropy. This ensemble entropy shows an asymptotic linear growth with rate K. The rate K matches the logarithm of the corresponding asymptotic sensitivity to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-01-04 Massmimo Coraddu , Marcello Lissia , Roberto Tonelli

Relations between entities can be represented by different instances, e.g., a sentence containing both entities or a fact in a Knowledge Graph (KG). However, these instances may not well capture the general relations between entities, may…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Jie Huang , Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang , Jinjun Xiong , Wen-mei Hwu

A specification given as a formula in linear temporal logic (LTL) defines a system by its set of traces. However, certain features such as information flow security constraints are rather modeled as so-called hyperproperties, which are sets…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Martin Lück

We propose a fitness measure quantifying multi-scale complexity for cellular automaton states, using compressibility as a proxy for complexity. The use of compressibility is grounded in the concept of Kolmogorov complexity, which defines…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Tadashi Adachi , Solvi Arnold , Takafumi Mochizuki , Kimitoshi Yamazaki

The aim of this note is to provide some reference facts for LZW---mostly from Thomas and Cover \cite{Cover:2006aa} and provide a reference for some metrics that can be derived from it. LZW is an algorithm to compute a Kolmogorov Complexity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Giulio Ruffini

The ability to translate diverse patterns of inputs into structured patterns of behavior has been thought to rest on both humans' and machines' ability to learn robust representations of relevant concepts. The rapid advancement of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Zach Studdiford , Timothy T. Rogers , Kushin Mukherjee , Siddharth Suresh

A definition of entropy via the Kolmogorov algorithmic complexity is discussed. As examples, we show how the meanfield theory for the Ising model, and the entropy of a perfect gas can be recovered. The connection with computations are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Somendra M. Bhattacharjee

The advancement of large language models (LLMs) for real-world applications hinges critically on enhancing their reasoning capabilities. In this work, we explore the reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs) through their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Romain Cosentino , Sarath Shekkizhar