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The extremum value theorem for function spaces plays the central role in optimal control. It is known that computation of optimal control actions and policies is often prone to numerical errors which may be related to computability issues.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-25 Pavel Osinenko , Stefan Streif

Life depends as much on the flow of information as on the flow of energy. Here we review the many efforts to make this intuition precise. Starting with the building blocks of information theory, we explore examples where it has been…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2014-12-31 Gašper Tkačik , William Bialek

Exact law of mortality dynamics in changing populations and environment is derived. The law is universal for all species, from single cell yeast to humans. It includes no characteristics of animal- environment interactions (metabolism etc)…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-10 Mark Ya. Azbel'

Following extensive numerical experiments, it has been suggested that the evolution of competing computer programs in artificial life simulations shows signs of being a self-organized critical process. The primary evidence for this claim…

adap-org · Physics 2009-10-30 M. E. J. Newman , Simon M. Fraser , Kim Sneppen , William A. Tozier

A nonequilibrium system is characterized by a set of thermodynamic forces and fluxes which give rise to entropy production (EP). We show that these forces and fluxes have an information-geometric structure, which allows us to decompose EP…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-12-16 Artemy Kolchinsky , Andreas Dechant , Kohei Yoshimura , Sosuke Ito

Postulated by Pauli to explain the electronic structure of atoms and molecules, the exclusion principle establishes an upper bound of 1 for the fermionic natural occupation numbers $\{n_i\}$. A recent analysis of the pure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-17 Carlos L. Benavides-Riveros , Michael Springborg

Power law or generalized polynomial regressions with unknown real-valued exponents and coefficients, and weakly dependent errors, are considered for observations over time, space or space--time. Consistency and asymptotic normality of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-05-14 Peter M. Robinson

Recently it has been demonstrated that causal entropic forces can lead to the emergence of complex phenomena associated with human cognitive niche such as tool use and social cooperation. Here I show that even more fundamental traits…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-20 Fouad Khan

In quantum experiments the acquisition and representation of basic experimental information is governed by the multinomial probability distribution. There exist unique random variables, whose standard deviation becomes asymptotically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Johann Summhammer

Power laws have been found to describe a wide variety of natural (physical, biological, astronomic, meteorological, geological) and man-made (social, financial, computational) phenomena over a wide range of magnitudes, although their…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Sam Ma

Intelligent behavior in life-like systems often arises from the ability to gather, process, and act on information. While active matter provides a framework for studying life-like dynamics, it typically omits internal information-processing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-02 Kristian Stølevik Olsen , Mitsusuke Tarama , Hartmut Löwen

Traditionally evolution is seen as a process where from a pool of possible variations of a population (e.g. biological species or industrial goods) a few variations get selected which survive and proliferate, whereas the others vanish.…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2008-09-25 Rudolf Hanel , Stefan Thurner

Scale-free networks play a fundamental role in the study of complex networks and various applied fields due to their ability to model a wide range of real-world systems. A key characteristic of these networks is their degree distribution,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-01-14 Nixon Jerez-Lillo , Francisco A. Rodrigues , Paulo H. Ferreira , Pedro L. Ramos

We derive the Planck law from a classical variational principle over probability densities, without invoking quantum states, quantized oscillator energies, or ensemble averages. We construct a generalized free energy functional involving…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-01-22 Carlos A. Gomez-Uribe

Most of the existing classification methods are aimed at minimization of empirical risk (through some simple point-based error measured with loss function) with added regularization. We propose to approach this problem in a more information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-01-22 Wojciech Marian Czarnecki , Jacek Tabor

The power law is ubiquitous in natural and social phenomena, and is considered as a universal relationship between the frequency and its rank for diverse social systems. However, a general model is still lacking to interpret why these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-27 Shuiyuan Yu , Junying Liang , Haitao Liu

Elucidating the fitness measures optimized during the evolution of complex biological systems is a major challenge in evolutionary theory. We present experimental evidence and an analytical framework demonstrating how biochemical networks…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2008-06-17 Raj Chakrabarti , Herschel Rabitz , George McLendon

Self-organization in complex systems is a process in which randomness is reduced and emergent structures appear that allow the system to function in a more competitive way with other states of the system or with other systems. It occurs…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-06-02 Matthew J Brouillet , Georgi Yordanov Georgiev

Engineering methodologies predominantly revolve around established principles of decomposition and recomposition. These principles involve partitioning inputs and outputs at the component level, ensuring that the properties of individual…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Niloofar Shadab , Tyler Cody , Alejandro Salado , Taylan G. Topcu , Mohammad Shadab , Peter Beling

In this paper we study the macroscopic conduction properties of large but finite binary networks with conducting bonds. By taking a combination of a spectral and an averaging based approach we derive asymptotic formulae for the conduction…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-04 D. P. Almond , C. J. Budd , M. A. Freitag , G. W. Hunt , N. J. McCullen , N. D. Smith