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Although information theoretic characterizations of human communication have become increasingly popular in linguistics, to date they have largely involved grafting probabilistic constructs onto older ideas about grammar. Similarities…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Michael Ramscar

We show how Zipf's Law can be used to scale up language modeling (LM) to take advantage of more training data and more GPUs. LM plays a key role in many important natural language applications such as speech recognition and machine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Mostofa Patwary , Milind Chabbi , Heewoo Jun , Jiaji Huang , Gregory Diamos , Kenneth Church

The United States Code (Code) is an important source of Federal law that is produced by the interactions of many heterogeneous actors in a complex, dynamic space. The Code can be represented as the union of a hierarchical network and a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-03-24 Michael J. Bommarito , Daniel Martin Katz

The task of finding a criterion allowing to distinguish a text from an arbitrary set of words is rather relevant in itself, for instance, in the aspect of development of means for internet-content indexing or separating signals and noise in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-10-02 D. V. Lande , A. A. Snarskii

Zipf's law of abbreviation, namely the tendency of more frequent words to be shorter, has been viewed as a manifestation of compression, i.e. the minimization of the length of forms -- a universal principle of natural communication.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Sonia Petrini , Antoni Casas-i-Muñoz , Jordi Cluet-i-Martinell , Mengxue Wang , Christian Bentz , Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho

Recent works have highlighted optimization difficulties faced by gradient descent in training the first and last layers of transformer-based language models, which are overcome by optimizers such as Adam. These works suggest that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Frederik Kunstner , Francis Bach

The information contained in the genome is insufficient for the control of organism development. Thus, the whereabouts of actual operational directives and workings of the genome remain obscure. In this work, it is suggested that the genome…

Biological Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Y. Berkovich

We must recognize that natural language is a way of information encoding, and it encodes not only the information but also the procedures for how information is processed. To understand natural language, the same as we conceive and design…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Limin Zhang

Statistical properties of the taxonomic classification of human languages are studied. It is shown that, at the highest levels of the taxonomic hierarchy, the frequency of taxon members as a function of the number of languages belonging to…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 Damian H. Zanette

In this paper we quantify the consistency of word usage in written texts represented by complex networks, where words were taken as nodes, by measuring the degree of preservation of the node neighborhood.} Words were considered highly…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-02-19 Diego R. Amancio , Osvaldo N. Oliveira , Luciano da F. Costa

This work proposes a markovian memoryless model for the DNA that simplifies enormously the complexity of it. We encode nucleotide sequences into symbolic sequences, called words, from which we establish meaningful length of words and group…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-10-09 Shambhavi Srivastava , Murilo S. Baptista

A pervasive belief with regard to the differences between human language and animal vocal sequences (song) is that they belong to different classes of computational complexity, with animal song belonging to regular languages, whereas human…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-11-03 Takashi Morita , Hiroki Koda

We model the generation of words with independent unequal probabilities of occurrence of letters. We prove that the probability $p(r)$ of occurrence of words of rank $r$ has a power asymptotics. As distinct from the paper published earlier…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-05-27 V. V. Bochkarev , E. Yu. Lerner

Deep learning has been successfully applied to various tasks, but its underlying mechanism remains unclear. Neural networks associate similar inputs in the visible layer to the same state of hidden variables in deep layers. The fraction of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Juyong Song , Matteo Marsili , Junghyo Jo

Gentzen designed his natural deduction proof system to ``come as close as possible to actual reasoning.'' Indeed, natural deduction proofs closely resemble the static structure of logical reasoning in mathematical arguments. However,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Dale Miller

A self-organizing approach is proposed for gene finding based on the model of codon usage for coding regions and positional preference for noncoding regions. The symmetry between the direct and reverse coding regions is adopted for reducing…

Biological Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Fang Wu , Wei-Mou Zheng

This work concerns formal descriptions of DNA code properties, and builds on previous work on transducer descriptions of classic code properties and on trajectory descriptions of DNA code properties. This line of research allows us to give…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-03 Lila Kari , Stavros Konstantinidis , Steffen Kopecki

An asymptote is derived from Turing's local reestimation formula for population frequencies, and a local reestimation formula is derived from Zipf's law for the asymptotic behavior of population frequencies. The two are shown to be…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Christer Samuelsson

Hilberg (1990) supposed that finite-order excess entropy of a random human text is proportional to the square root of the text length. Assuming that Hilberg's hypothesis is true, we derive Guiraud's law, which states that the number of word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Łukasz Dȩbowski

This work introduces a novel approach to constructing DNA codes from linear codes over a non-chain extension of $\mathbb{Z}_4$. We study $(\text{\textbaro},\mathfrak{d}, \gamma)$-constacyclic codes over the ring…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Priyanka Sharma , Ashutosh Singh , Om Prakash