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MFCS
2009
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Time-Bounded Kolmogorov Complexity and Solovay Functions
Abstract. A Solovay function is a computable upper bound g for prefixfree Kolmogorov complexity K that is nontrivial in the sense that g agrees with K, up to some additive constan...
Rupert Hölzl, Thorsten Kräling, Wolfgang...
ICALP
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Sophistication Revisited
Kolmogorov complexity measures the ammount of information in a string as the size of the shortest program that computes the string. The Kolmogorov structure function divides the s...
Luis Antunes 0002, Lance Fortnow
COCO
2003
Springer
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13 years 9 months ago
The complexity of stochastic sequences
We review and slightly strengthen known results on the Kolmogorov complexity of prefixes of effectively random sequences. First, there are recursively random random sequences su...
Wolfgang Merkle
COCO
2003
Springer
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13 years 9 months ago
Derandomization and Distinguishing Complexity
We continue an investigation of resource-bounded Kolmogorov complexity and derandomization techniques begun in [2, 3]. We introduce nondeterministic time-bounded Kolmogorov comple...
Eric Allender, Michal Koucký, Detlef Ronneb...
MFCS
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Scaled Dimension and the Kolmogorov Complexity of Turing-Hard Sets
We study constructive and resource-bounded scaled dimension as an information content measure and obtain several results that parallel previous work on unscaled dimension. Scaled ...
John M. Hitchcock, María López-Vald&...
ICALP
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Reconciling Data Compression and Kolmogorov Complexity
While data compression and Kolmogorov complexity are both about effective coding of words, the two settings differ in the following respect. A compression algorithm or compressor...
Laurent Bienvenu, Wolfgang Merkle
COCO
2007
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
Low-Depth Witnesses are Easy to Find
Antunes, Fortnow, van Melkebeek and Vinodchandran captured the notion of non-random information by computational depth, the difference between the polynomialtime-bounded Kolmogoro...
Luis Antunes 0002, Lance Fortnow, Alexandre Pinto,...
ICANN
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Modelling Image Complexity by Independent Component Analysis, with Application to Content-Based Image Retrieval
Abstract. Estimating the degree of similarity between images is a challenging task as the similarity always depends on the context. Because of this context dependency, it seems qui...
Jukka Perkiö, Aapo Hyvärinen
FSTTCS
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Kolmogorov Complexity in Randomness Extraction
We clarify the role of Kolmogorov complexity in the area of randomness extraction. We show that a computable function is an almost randomness extractor if and only if it is a Kolm...
John M. Hitchcock, Aduri Pavan, N. V. Vinodchandra...
STOC
2002
ACM
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14 years 4 months ago
Approximating the smallest grammar: Kolmogorov complexity in natural models
Moses Charikar, Eric Lehman, Ding Liu, Rina Panigr...