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In this article, we construct semiparametrically efficient estimators of linear functionals of a probability measure in the presence of side information using an easy empirical likelihood approach. We use estimated constraint functions and…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-03-01 Shan Wang , Hanxiang Peng

We give exact formulae for a wide family of complexity measures that capture the organization of hidden nonlinear processes. The spectral decomposition of operator-valued functions leads to closed-form expressions involving the full…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-09-17 James P. Crutchfield , Christopher J. Ellison , Paul M. Riechers

In this paper, we present some results on information, complexity and entropy as defined below and we discuss their relations with the Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy which is the most important invariant of a dynamical system. These results have…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-08-17 Vieri Benci , Claudio Bonanno , Stefano Galatolo , Giulia Menconi , Federico Ponchio

A measure of how sensitive the entanglement entropy is in a quantum system, has been proposed and its information geometric origin is discussed. It has been demonstrated for two exactly solvable spin systems, that thermodynamic criticality…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-02 Pritam Sarkar

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

For a certain parametrized family of maps on the circle, with critical points and logarithmic singularities where derivatives blow up to infinity, a positive measure set of parameters was constructed in [19], corresponding to maps which…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2012-02-07 Hiroki Takahasi

A general notion of information-related complexity applicable to both natural and man-made systems is proposed. The overall approach is to explicitly consider a rational agent performing a certain task with a quantifiable degree of success.…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2013-01-18 Eugene Perevalov , David Grace

Spatial-temporal linear model and the corresponding likelihood-based statistical inference are important tools for the analysis of spatial-temporal lattice data. In this paper, we study the asymptotic properties of maximum likelihood…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-07-27 Xiang Zhang , Yanbing Zheng

This paper has two purposes. One is to demonstrate contextuality analysis of systems of epistemic random variables. The other is to evaluate the performance of a new, hierarchical version of the measure of (non)contextuality introduced in…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-09-04 Víctor H. Cervantes , Ehtibar N. Dzhafarov

Instead of static entropy we assert that the Kolmogorov complexity of a static structure such as a solid is the proper measure of disorder (or chaoticity). A static structure in a surrounding perfectly-random universe acts as an interfering…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-05-13 Joel Ratsaby

This study introduces a metric designed to measure urban structures through the economic complexity lens, building on the foundational theories of urban spatial structure, the Central Place Theory (CPT) (Christaller, 1933). Despite the…

General Economics · Economics 2024-07-30 Jonghyun Kim , Donghyeon Yu , Hyoji Choi , Dongwoo Seo , Bogang Jun

Quantifying the evolution and complexity of materials is of importance in many areas of science and engineering, where a central open challenge is developing experimental complexity measurements to distinguish random structures from evolved…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-26 Keith Y Patarroyo , Abhishek Sharma , Ian Seet , Ignas Packmore , Sara I. Walker , Leroy Cronin

We present a new similarity measure based on information theoretic measures which is superior than Normalized Compression Distance for clustering problems and inherits the useful properties of conditional Kolmogorov complexity. We show that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-10-22 Andrey Bogomolov , Bruno Lepri , Fabio Pianesi

Measuring graph clustering quality remains an open problem. To address it, we introduce quality measures based on comparisons of intra- and inter-cluster densities, an accompanying statistical test of the significance of their differences…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Pierre Miasnikof , Alexander Y. Shestopaloff , Anthony J. Bonner , Yuri Lawryshyn , Panos M. Pardalos

Metric learning seeks a transformation of the feature space that enhances prediction quality for the given task at hand. In this work we provide PAC-style sample complexity rates for supervised metric learning. We give matching lower- and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-05-12 Nakul Verma , Kristin Branson

Some established and also novel techniques in the field of applications of algorithmic (Kolmogorov) complexity currently co-exist for the first time and are here reviewed, ranging from dominant ones such as statistical lossless compression…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Hector Zenil

Nowadays the question `what is complexity?' is a challenge to be answered. This question is triggering a great quantity of works in the frontier of physics, biology, mathematics and computer science. Even more when this century has been…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2010-09-03 Ricardo Lopez-Ruiz , Juan R. Sanchez

The problem of estimating the spectrum of a density matrix is considered. Other problems, such as bipartite pure state entanglement, can be reduced to spectrum estimation. A local operations and classical communication (LOCC) measurement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Manuel A. Ballester

Information geometric techniques and inductive inference methods hold great promise for solving computational problems of interest in classical and quantum physics, especially with regard to complexity characterization of dynamical systems…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 S. A. Ali , C. Cafaro , A. Giffin , D. -H. Kim

We present a mathematical construction of new quantum information measures that generalize the notion of logarithmic negativity. Our approach is based on formal group theory. We shall prove that this family of generalized negativity…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 José A. Carrasco , Giuseppe Marmo , Piergiulio Tempesta