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Robust classification algorithms have been developed in recent years with great success. We take advantage of this development and recast the classical two-sample test problem in the framework of classification. Based on the estimates of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-09-18 Haiyan Cai , Bryan Goggin , Qingtang Jiang

Alkali metal ion batteries, and in particular Li-ion batteries, have become a key technology for current and future energy storage, already nowadays powering many devices of our daily lives. Due to the inherent complexity of batteries and…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-14 Holger Euchner , Axel Groß

The group testing problem concerns discovering a small number of defective items within a large population by performing tests on pools of items. A test is positive if the pool contains at least one defective, and negative if it contains no…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Matthew Aldridge , Oliver Johnson , Jonathan Scarlett

Physics concepts have often been borrowed and independently developed by other fields of science. In this perspective a significant example is that of entropy in Information Theory. The aim of this paper is to provide a short and…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrea Baronchelli , Emanuele Caglioti , Vittorio Loreto

Genomes may be analyzed from an information viewpoint as very long strings, containing functional elements of variable length, which have been assembled by evolution. In this work an innovative information theory based algorithm is…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2020-09-23 Vincenzo Bonnici , Giuditta Franco , Vincenzo Manca

Software Testing is a process to identify the quality and reliability of software, which can be achieved through the help of proper test data. However, doing this manually is a difficult task due to the presence of number of predicate nodes…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-01-22 Yeresime Suresh , Santanu Ku. Rath

Testing algorithms across a wide range of problem instances is crucial to ensure the validity of any claim about one algorithm's superiority over another. However, when it comes to inference algorithms for probabilistic logic programs,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Paulius Dilkas , Vaishak Belle

Encryption study basically deals with three levels of algorithms. The first algorithm deals with encryption mechanism, second deals with decryption Mechanism and the third discusses about the generation of keys and sub keys used in the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-07-05 Addepalli V. N Krishna , A Vinay Babu

We study a hypothesis testing problem in which data is compressed distributively and sent to a detector that seeks to decide between two possible distributions for the data. The aim is to characterize all achievable encoding rates and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-01 Md. Saifur Rahman , Aaron B. Wagner

Currently, knowledge discovery in databases is an essential step to identify valid, novel and useful patterns for decision making. There are many real-world scenarios, such as bankruptcy prediction, option pricing or medical diagnosis,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-20 José-Ramón Cano , Pedro Antonio Gutiérrez , Bartosz Krawczyk , Michał Woźniak , Salvador García

The development and identification of effective optimization algorithms for non-convex real-world problems is a challenge in global optimization. Because theoretical performance analysis is difficult, and problems based on models of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-16 Ramses Sala , Niccolò Baldanzini , Marco Pierini

In 'An asymptotic result on compressed sensing matrices', a new construction for compressed sensing matrices using combinatorial design theory was introduced. In this paper, we use deterministic and probabilistic methods to analyse the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-21 Darryn Bryant , Charles Colbourn , Daniel Horsley , Padraig Ó Catháin

We suggest a new approach to hypothesis testing for ergodic and stationary processes. In contrast to standard methods, the suggested approach gives a possibility to make tests, based on any lossless data compression method even if the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Boris Ryabko , Jaakko Astola

Automated testing tools typically create test cases that are different from what human testers create. This often makes the tools less effective, the created tests harder to understand, and thus results in tools providing less support to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Eduard Enoiu , Robert Feldt

We describe a generalization of the group testing problem termed symmetric group testing. Unlike in classical binary group testing, the roles played by the input symbols zero and one are "symmetric" while the outputs are drawn from a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-08-16 Amin Emad , Jun Shen , Olgica Milenkovic

Random number generators (RNGs) are notoriously challenging to build and test, especially for cryptographic applications. While statistical tests cannot definitively guarantee an RNG's output quality, they are a powerful verification tool…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Cameron Foreman , Richie Yeung , Florian J. Curchod

Retrieval-augmented generation integrates the capabilities of large language models with relevant information retrieved from an extensive corpus, yet encounters challenges when confronted with real-world noisy data. One recent solution is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Kun Zhu , Xiaocheng Feng , Xiyuan Du , Yuxuan Gu , Weijiang Yu , Haotian Wang , Qianglong Chen , Zheng Chu , Jingchang Chen , Bing Qin

For a broad class of input-output maps, arguments based on the coding theorem from algorithmic information theory (AIT) predict that simple (low Kolmogorov complexity) outputs are exponentially more likely to occur upon uniform random…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2019-10-03 Kamaludin Dingle , Guillermo Valle Pérez , Ard A. Louis

We present an information-theoretic framework for understanding overfitting and underfitting in machine learning and prove the formal undecidability of determining whether an arbitrary classification algorithm will overfit a dataset.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Daniel Bashir , George D. Montanez , Sonia Sehra , Pedro Sandoval Segura , Julius Lauw

Nowadays data compressors are applied to many problems of text analysis, but many such applications are developed outside of the framework of mathematical statistics. In this paper we overcome this obstacle and show how several methods of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-17 Boris Ryabko , Andrey Guskov , Irina Selivanova