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The essential variables in a finite function $f$ are defined as variables which occur in $f$ and weigh with the values of that function. The number of essential variables is an important measure of complexity for discrete functions. When…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-01-05 Sl. Shtrakov , I. Damyanov

The complex software systems developed nowadays require assessing their quality and proneness to errors. Reducing code complexity is a never-ending problem, especially in today's fast pace of software systems development. Therefore, the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Laura Diana Cernau , Laura Diosan , Camelia Serban

Predictive inference requires balancing statistical accuracy against informational complexity, yet the choice of complexity measure is usually imposed rather than derived. We treat econometric objects as predictive rules, mappings from…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Nicholas G. Polson , Daniel Zantedeschi

Deploying artificial intelligence (AI) models on edge devices involves a delicate balance between meeting stringent complexity constraints, such as limited memory and energy resources, and ensuring reliable performance in sensitive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Jiayi Huang , Sangwoo Park , Nicola Paoletti , Osvaldo Simeone

Complex systems are characterised by a tight, nontrivial interplay of their constituents, which gives rise to a multi-scale spectrum of emergent properties. In this scenario, it is practically and conceptually difficult to identify those…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-10-19 Roi Holtzman , Marco Giulini , Raffaello Potestio

Investigations of complexity of sequences lead to important applications such as effective data compression, testing of randomness, discriminating between information sources and many others. In this paper we establish formulas describing…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Janusz Szczepanski

Specifying a computational problem requires fixing encodings for input and output: encoding graphs as adjacency matrices, characters as integers, integers as bit strings, and vice versa. For such discrete data, the actual encoding is…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-08-25 Donghyun Lim , Martin Ziegler

We study the complexity of sampling, rounding, and integrating arbitrary logconcave functions. Our new approach provides the first complexity improvements in nearly two decades for general logconcave functions for all three problems, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Yunbum Kook , Santosh S. Vempala

We define the notion of localizable property for a dynamical system. Then we survey three properties of complexity and relate how they are known to be typical among differentiable dynamical systems. These notions are the fast growth of the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Pierre Berger

Spreadsheets are widely used in industry, even for critical business processes. This implies the need for proper risk assessment in spreadsheets to evaluate the reliability and validity of the spreadsheet's outcome. As related research has…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-04-06 Thomas Reschenhofer , Bernhard Waltl , Klym Shumaiev , Florian Matthes

The Effective Sample Size (ESS) is an important measure of efficiency of Monte Carlo methods such as Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) and Importance Sampling (IS) techniques. In the IS context, an approximation $\widehat{ESS}$ of the…

Computation · Statistics 2016-09-27 L. Martino , V. Elvira , F. Louzada

Context dependence is central to the description of complexity. Keying on the pairwise definition of "set complexity" we use an information theory approach to formulate general measures of systems complexity. We examine the properties of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-21 David J. Galas , Nikita A. Sakhanenko , Alexander Skupin , Tomasz Ignac

In this paper we examine the concept of complexity as it applies to generative art and design. Complexity has many different, discipline specific definitions, such as complexity in physical systems (entropy), algorithmic measures of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Jon McCormack , Camilo Cruz Gambardella , Andy Lomas

Many models of interest in the natural and social sciences have no closed-form likelihood function, which means that they cannot be treated using the usual techniques of statistical inference. In the case where such models can be…

Computation · Statistics 2012-07-19 Simon Barthelmé , Nicolas Chopin

Computational complexity is examined using the principle of increasing entropy. To consider computation as a physical process from an initial instance to the final acceptance is motivated because many natural processes have been recognized…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-03-20 Arto Annila

A framework is presented for fitting inverse problem models via variational Bayes approximations. This methodology guarantees flexibility to statistical model specification for a broad range of applications, good accuracy and reduced model…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-09-05 Luca Maestrini , Robert G. Aykroyd , Matt P. Wand

Using the theorem of residues Chiarella and Reichel derived a series that can be represented in terms of the complex error function (CEF). Here we show a simple derivation of this CEF series by Fourier expansion of the exponential function…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2012-08-13 S. M. Abrarov , B. M. Quine , R. K. Jagpal

Image classification is an essential part of computer vision which assigns a given input image to a specific category based on the similarity evaluation within given criteria. While promising classifiers can be obtained through deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Emma Andrews , Prabhat Mishra

Perplexity -- a function measuring a model's overall level of "surprise" when encountering a particular output -- has gained significant traction in recent years, both as a loss function and as a simple-to-compute metric of model quality.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Petar Veličković , Federico Barbero , Christos Perivolaropoulos , Simon Osindero , Razvan Pascanu

Recent advancements in vision models have greatly improved their ability to handle complex chart understanding tasks, like chart captioning and question answering. However, it remains challenging to assess how these models process charts.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Soohyun Lee , Minsuk Chang , Seokhyeon Park , Jinwook Seo