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We develop tame topology over dp-minimal structures equipped with definable uniformities satisfying certain assumptions. Our assumptions are enough to ensure that definable sets are tame: there is a good notion of dimension on definable…

Logic · Mathematics 2019-09-18 Pierre Simon , Erik Walsberg

Infinite games where several players seek to coordinate under imperfect information are deemed to be undecidable, unless the information is hierarchically ordered among the players. We identify a class of games for which joint winning…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-29 Dietmar Berwanger , Anup Basil Mathew

An important parameter in a secret sharing scheme is the number of minimal qualified sets. Given this number, the universal access structure is the richest possible structure, namely the one in which there are one or more participants in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Laszlo Csirmaz

A Concept Tree is a structure for storing knowledge where the trees are stored in a database called a Concept Base. It sits between the highly distributed neural architectures and the distributed information systems, with the intention of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Kieran Greer

Information has intrinsic geometric and topological structure, arising from relative relationships beyond absolute values or types. For instance, the fact that two people share a meal describes a relationship independent of the meal's…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-12-13 Michael Erdmann

A growing interest in complex networks theory results in an ongoing demand for new analytical tools. We propose a novel measure based on information theory that provides a new perspective for a better understanding of networked systems:…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-05-30 Aline Viol , Vesna Vuksanović , Philipp Hövel

We build information geometry for a partially ordered set of variables and define the orthogonal decomposition of information theoretic quantities. The natural connection between information geometry and order theory leads to efficient…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Mahito Sugiyama , Hiroyuki Nakahara , Koji Tsuda

Both scientists and children make important structural discoveries, yet their computational underpinnings are not well understood. Structure discovery has previously been formalized as probabilistic inference about the right structural form…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Brenden M. Lake , Neil D. Lawrence , Joshua B. Tenenbaum

The study of irreducible higher-order interactions has become a core topic of study in complex systems. Two of the most well-developed frameworks, topological data analysis and multivariate information theory, aim to provide formal tools…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Thomas F. Varley , Pedro A. M. Mediano , Alice Patania , Josh Bongard

This work explores models of opinion dynamics with opinion-dependent connectivity. Our starting point is that individuals have limited capabilities to engage in interactions with their peers. Motivated by this observation, we propose a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-01 Francesca Ceragioli , Paolo Frasca , Wilbert Samuel Rossi

During a spontaneous change, a macroscopic physical system will evolve towards a macro-state with more realizations. This observation is at the basis of the Statistical Mechanical version of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, and it provides…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-22 Mengjie Zu , Arunkumar Bupathy , Daan Frenkel , Srikanth Sastry

Building software-driven systems that are easily understood becomes a challenge, with their ever-increasing complexity and autonomy. Accordingly, recent research efforts strive to aid in designing explainable systems. Nevertheless, a common…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-02-11 Dimitri Bohlender , Maximilian A. Köhl

Entropy always increases monotonically in a closed system but complexity increases at first and then decreases as equilibrium is approached. Commonsense information-related definitions for entropy and complexity demonstrate that complexity…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-03-26 Theodore Modis

In physics we often use very simple models to describe systems with many degrees of freedom, but it is not clear why or how this success can be transferred to the more complex biological context. We consider models for the joint…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-12-06 Luisa Ramirez , William Bialek , Stephanie E. Palmer , David J. Schwab

This paper applies Algorithmic Information Theory to simple examples of replication processes to illustrate how replicating structures can generate and maintain order in a non equilibrium system. Variation in replicating structures enhances…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2008-11-12 Sean D Devine

Informational entropy is often identified as physical entropy. This is surprising because the two quantities are differently defined and furthermore the former is a subjective quantity while the latter is an objective one. We describe the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-01 Won-Young Hwang

There has been a recent surge of interest in the role of information in strategic interactions. Much of this work seeks to understand how the realized equilibrium of a game is influenced by uncertainty in the environment and the information…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-22 Shaddin Dughmi

To understand the structure of a large-scale biological, social, or technological network, it can be helpful to decompose the network into smaller subunits or modules. In this article, we develop an information-theoretic foundation for the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin Rosvall , Carl T. Bergstrom

The correlations that can be observed between a set of variables depend on the causal structure underpinning them. Causal structures can be modeled using directed acyclic graphs, where nodes represent variables and edges denote functional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-08 Rafael Chaves , Christian Majenz , David Gross

We define Almost Sure Productivity (ASP), a probabilistic generalization of the productivity condition for coinductively defined structures. Intuitively, a probabilistic coinductive stream or tree is ASP if it produces infinitely many…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Alejandro Aguirre , Gilles Barthe , Justin Hsu , Alexandra Silva