Calculating Kolmogorov complexity from the output frequency distributions of small Turing machines.

Drawing on various notions from theoretical computer science, we present a novel numerical approach, motivated by the notion of algorithmic probability, to the problem of approximating the Kolmogorov-Chaitin complexity of short strings. The method is an alternative to the traditional lossless compre...

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Main Authors: Fernando Soler-Toscano, Hector Zenil, Jean-Paul Delahaye, Nicolas Gauvrit
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4014489?pdf=render