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This is an expanded version of my talk given at the International Conference ``Algebra and Number Theory'' dedicated to the 80th anniversary of V. E. Voskresenskii, which was held at the Samara State University in May 2007. The goal is to…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2008-01-02 Boris Kunyavskii

Different aspects of the predictability problem in dynamical systems are reviewed. The deep relation among Lyapunov exponents, Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy, Shannon entropy and algorithmic complexity is discussed. In particular, we emphasize…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Boffetta , M. Cencini , M. Falcioni , A. Vulpiani

There is no single definition of complexity (Edmonds 1999; Gershenson 2008; Mitchell 2009; De Domenico, et al., 2019), as it acquires different meanings in different contexts. A general notion is the amount of information required to…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-02-26 Carlos Gershenson

The question of the exact region in the complex plane of the possible single eigenvalues of all $n$-by-$n$ stochastic matrices was raised by Kolmogorov in 1937 and settled by Karpelevi\v{c} in 1951 after a partial result by Dmitriev and…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2018-08-15 Charles R. Johnson , Pietro Paparella

Loveland complexity is a variant of Kolmogorov complexity, where it is asked to output separately the bits of the desired string, instead of the string itself. Similarly to the resource-bounded Kolmogorov sets we define Loveland sets. We…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-02-17 Thomas Hugel

We propose a numerical test of fundamental physics based on the complexity measure of a general set of functions, which is directly related to the Kolmogorov (or algorithmic) complexity studied in mathematics and computer science. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Vitaly Vanchurin

This document collects the lecture notes from my course "Communication Complexity (for Algorithm Designers),'' taught at Stanford in the winter quarter of 2015. The two primary goals of the course are: 1. Learn several canonical problems…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-09-22 Tim Roughgarden

The framework of Solomonoff prediction assigns prior probability to hypotheses inversely proportional to their Kolmogorov complexity. There are two well-known problems. First, the Solomonoff prior is relative to a choice of Universal Turing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Sven Neth

Many theorems about Kolmogorov complexity rely on existence of combinatorial objects with specific properties. Usually the probabilistic method gives such objects with better parameters than explicit constructions do. But the probabilistic…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-03-12 Daniil Musatov

This is part II of our book on KAM theory. We start by defining functorial analysis and then switch to the particular case of Kolmogorov spaces. We develop functional calculus based on the notion of local operators. This allows to define…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-09-12 Mauricio Garay , Duco van Straten

It is shown that the standard Kolmogorov model for probability spaces cannot in general allow the elimination but of only a small amount of probabilistic redundancy. This issue, a purely theoretical weakness, not necessarily related to…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Elemer E Rosinger

The paper presents the main characteristics and a preliminary implementation of a novel computational framework named CompLog. Inspired by probabilistic programming systems like ProbLog, CompLog builds upon the inferential mechanisms…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Giovanni Sileno , Jean-Louis Dessalles

The Kolmogorov complexity function K can be relativized using any oracle A, and most properties of K remain true for relativized versions. In section 1 we provide an explanation for this observation by giving a game-theoretic interpretation…

Logic · Mathematics 2010-03-25 Andrej A. Muchnik , Ilya Mezhirov , Alexander Shen , Nikolay Vereshchagin

Presents a history of the evolution of the author's ideas on program-size complexity and its applications to metamathematics over the course of more than four decades. Includes suggestions for further work.

History and Overview · Mathematics 2007-05-23 G. J. Chaitin

The concept of overfitting in model selection is explained and demonstrated with an example. After providing some background information on information theory and Kolmogorov complexity, we provide a short explanation of Minimum Description…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2010-05-17 Volker Nannen

The problem of defining and studying complexity of a time series has interested people for years. In the context of dynamical systems, Grassberger has suggested that a slow approach of the entropy to its extensive asymptotic limit is a sign…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-11-07 William Bialek , Ilya Nemenman , Naftali Tishby

The domain-independent universal Normalized Information Distance based on Kolmogorov complexity has been (in approximate form) successfully applied to a variety of difficult clustering problems. In this paper we investigate theoretical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Marcus Hutter

Unexpectedness is a central concept in Simplicity Theory, a theory of cognition relating various inferential processes to the computation of Kolmogorov complexities, rather than probabilities. Its predictive power has been confirmed by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Giovanni Sileno , Jean-Louis Dessalles

The present book is the first publication in English considered the modern problems of control theory and analysis connected with a concept of system zeros. The previous book by Ye.M. Smagina (1990) had been written in Russian and it is…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ye. M. Smagina

The even online Kolmogorov complexity of a string $x = x_1 x_2 \cdots x_{n}$ is the minimal length of a program that for all $i\le n/2$, on input $x_1x_3 \cdots x_{2i-1}$ outputs $x_{2i}$. The odd complexity is defined similarly. The sum of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Bruno Bauwens , Maria Marchenko