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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

This paper concerns $\mu$-limit sets of cellular automata: sets of configurations made of words whose probability to appear does not vanish with time, starting from an initial $\mu$-random configuration. More precisely, we investigate the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-06-23 Laurent Boyer , Martin Delacourt , Victor Poupet , Mathieu Sablik , Guillaume Theyssier

We summarize our recent findings, where we proposed a framework for learning a Kolmogorov model, for a collection of binary random variables. More specifically, we derive conditions that link outcomes of specific random variables, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-07 Hadi Ghauch , Mikael Skoglund , Hossein Shokri-Ghadikolaei , Carlo Fischione , Ali H. Sayed

The Kolmogorov complexity of a string is the length of its shortest description. We define a second quantised Kolmogorov complexity where the length of a description is defined to be the average length of its superposition. We discuss this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-09-17 Caroline Rogers , Vlatko Vedral , Rajagopal Nagarajan

We prove the formula C(a,b) = K(a|C(a,b)) + C(b|a,C(a,b)) + O(1) that expresses the plain complexity of a pair in terms of prefix and plain conditional complexities of its components.

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-02-16 Bruno Bauwens , Alexander Shen

Kolmogorov (1965) defined the complexity of a string $x$ as the minimal length of a program generating $x$. Obviously this definition depends on the choice of the programming language. Kolmogorov noted that there exist \emph{optimal}…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Bruno Bauwens , Alexander Kozachinskiy , Alexander Shen

Mutual information I in infinite sequences (and in their finite prefixes) is essential in theoretical analysis of many situations. Yet its right definition has been elusive for a long time. I address it by generalizing Kolmogorov Complexity…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Leonid A. Levin

We study the palindromic complexity of infinite words $u_\beta$, the fixed points of the substitution over a binary alphabet, $\phi(0)=0^a1$, $\phi(1)=0^b1$, with $a-1\geq b\geq 1$, which are canonically associated with quadratic non-simple…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-08-16 L'ubomíra Balková , Zuzana Masáková

The word "complexity" is most often used as a meta--linguistic expression referring to certain intuitive characteristics of a natural system and/or its scientific description. These characteristics may include: sheer amount of data that…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2013-01-03 Yuri I. Manin

We examine deterministic and nondeterministic state complexities of regular operations on prefix-free languages. We strengthen several results by providing witness languages over smaller alphabets, usually as small as possible. We next…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2010-08-11 Galina Jirásková , Monika Krausová

Divergences are fundamental to the information criteria that underpin most signal processing algorithms. The alpha-beta family of divergences, designed for non-negative data, offers a versatile framework that parameterizes and continuously…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Sergio Cruces

In [3] a short proof is given that some strings have maximal plain Kolmogorov complexity but not maximal prefix-free complexity. The proof uses Levin's symmetry of information, Levin's formula relating plain and prefix complexity and Gacs'…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-05-08 Bruno Bauwens

Many iterative algorithms in optimization, computational geometry, computer algebra, and other areas of computer science require repeated computation of some algebraic expression whose input changes slightly from one iteration to the next.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Emile Anand , Jan van den Brand , Mehrdad Ghadiri , Daniel Zhang

The purpose of this paper is to answer two questions left open in [B. Durand, A. Shen, and N. Vereshchagin, Descriptive Complexity of Computable Sequences, Theoretical Computer Science 171 (2001), pp. 47--58]. Namely, we consider the…

Logic · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Nikolay Vereshchagin

Bipolar Argumentation Frameworks (BAFs) admit several interpretations of the support relation and diverging definitions of semantics. Recently, several classes of BAFs have been captured as instances of bipolar Assumption-Based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Amin Karamlou , Kristijonas Čyras , Francesca Toni

Any positive word comprised of random sequence of tokens form a finite alphabet can be reduced (without change of length) using an appropriate size Braid group relationships. Surprisingly the Braid relations dramatically reduce the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-08-20 Dara O Shayda

A brief review of problems, arising in the study of the beta-deformation, also known as "refinement", which appears as a central difficult element in a number of related modern subjects: beta \neq 1 is responsible for deviation from free…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-09 A. Morozov

Is it possible to find a shortest description for a binary string? The well-known answer is "no, Kolmogorov complexity is not computable." Faced with this barrier, one might instead seek a short list of candidates which includes a laconic…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-02-14 Jason Teutsch

This paper proves a Kolmogorov-complexity-flavored sufficient condition for a set to be attractive and discusses some consequences of this condition.

Logic · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Tiago Royer

We reconsider some classical natural semantics of integers (namely iterators of functions, cardinals of sets, index of equivalence relations), in the perspective of Kolmogorov complexity. To each such semantics one can attach a simple…

Logic · Mathematics 2008-01-03 Marie Ferbus-Zanda , Serge Grigorieff