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Although information content is invariant up to an additive constant, the range of possible additive constants applicable to programming languages is so large that in practice it plays a major role in the actual evaluation of K(s), the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-06-03 Jean-Paul Delahaye , Hector Zenil

The (prefix-free) Kolmogorov complexity of a finite binary string is the length of the shortest description of the string. This gives rise to some `standard' lowness notions for reals: A is K-trivial if its initial segments have the lowest…

Logic · Mathematics 2014-10-15 Ian Herbert

Depth of an object concerns a tradeoff between computation time and excess of program length over the shortest program length required to obtain the object. It gives an unconditional lower bound on the computation time from a given program…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-09-16 Luis Antunes , Armando Matos , Andre Souto , Paul Vitanyi

We prove a very general lower bound technique for quantum and randomized query complexity, that is easy to prove as well as to apply. To achieve this, we introduce the use of Kolmogorov complexity to query complexity. Our technique…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sophie Laplante , Frederic Magniez

We suggest necessary conditions of soficness of multidimensional shifts formulated in termsof resource-bounded Kolmogorov complexity. Using this technique we provide examples ofeffective and non-sofic shifts on $\mathbb{Z}^2$ with very low…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Julien Destombes , Andrei Romashchenko

By Kolmogorov Complexity,two number-theoretic problems are solved in different way than before,one problem is Maxim Kontsevich and Don Bernard Zagier's Problem 3 \emph{Exhibit at least one number which does not belong to} $ \mathcal{P}$…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-10-24 Yang Bai , Xiuli Wang

Solovay proved that there exists a computable upper bound f of the prefix-free Kolmogorov complexity function K such that f (x) = K(x) for infinitely many x. In this paper, we consider the class of computable functions f such that K(x) <= f…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-02-10 Laurent Bienvenu , Rod Downey

We establish diverse relationships between the algorithmic (Kolmogorov) complexity of the prefixes of any binary expansion and $\beta$-expansions. These relationships allow to develop intuitions on the complexity behavior of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Valentin Abadie , Helmut Boelcskei

We introduce a method for analyzing the complexity of natural language processing tasks, and for predicting the difficulty new NLP tasks. Our complexity measures are derived from the Kolmogorov complexity of a class of automata --- {\it…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Wlodek Zadrozny

Consider a d*n matrix A, with d<n. The problem of solving for x in y=Ax is underdetermined, and has infinitely many solutions (if there are any). Given y, the minimum Kolmogorov complexity solution (MKCS) of the input x is defined to be an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 David Donoho , Hossein Kakavand , James Mammen

A $c$-short program for a string $x$ is a description of $x$ of length at most $C(x) + c$, where $C(x)$ is the Kolmogorov complexity of $x$. We show that there exists a randomized algorithm that constructs a list of $n$ elements that…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-01-21 Bruno Bauwens , Marius Zimand

We study the minimal complexity of tilings of a plane with a given tile set. We note that every tile set admits either no tiling or some tiling with O(n) Kolmogorov complexity of its n-by-n squares. We construct tile sets for which this…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Bruno Durand , Leonid A. Levin , Alexander Shen

The coding theorem for Kolmogorov complexity states that any string sampled from a computable distribution has a description length close to its information content. A coding theorem for resource-bounded Kolmogorov complexity is the key to…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Shuichi Hirahara , Zhenjian Lu , Mikito Nanashima

Kolmogorov-Chaitin complexity has long been believed to be impossible to approximate when it comes to short sequences (e.g. of length 5-50). However, with the newly developed \emph{coding theorem method} the complexity of strings of length…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-02-23 Nicolas Gauvrit , Henrik Singmann , Fernando Soler-Toscano , Hector Zenil

After reviewing unnormalized and normalized information distances based on incomputable notions of Kolmogorov complexity, we discuss how Kolmogorov complexity can be approximated by data compression algorithms. We argue that optimal…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Alexei Kaltchenko

We study the computably enumerable sets in terms of the: (a) Kolmogorov complexity of their initial segments; (b) Kolmogorov complexity of finite programs when they are used as oracles. We present an extended discussion of the existing…

Logic · Mathematics 2013-11-28 George Barmpalias , Angsheng Li

Kolmogorov Complexity constitutes an integral part of computability theory, information theory, and computational complexity theory -- in the discrete setting of bits and Turing machines. Over real numbers, on the other hand, the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-03-28 Martin Ziegler , Wouter M. Koolen

If no optimal propositional proof system exists, we (and independently Pudl\'ak) prove that ruling out length $t$ proofs of any unprovable sentence is hard. This mapping from unprovable to hard-to-prove sentences powerfully translates facts…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Hunter Monroe

We present several application of simple topological arguments in problems of Kolmogorov complexity. Basically we use the standard fact from topology that the disk is simply connected. It proves to be enough to construct strings with some…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-01-27 Alexander Shen , Andrei Romashchenko

We initiate the theory of communication complexity of individual inputs held by the agents, rather than worst-case or average-case. We consider total, partial, and partially correct protocols, one-way versus two-way, with and without help…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Harry Buhrman , Hartmut Klauck , Nikolai Vereshchagin , Paul Vitanyi