Towards a stable definition of Kolmogorov-Chaitin complexity
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چکیده
Although information content is invariant up to an additive constant, the range of possible additive constants applicable to programming languages is so large that in practice it plays a major role in the actual evaluation of K(s), the Kolmogorov-Chaitin complexity of a string s. Some attempts have been made to arrive at a framework stable enough for a concrete definition of K, independent of any constant under a programming language, by appealing to the naturalness of the language in question. The aim of this paper is to present an approach to overcome the problem by looking at a set of models of computation converging in output probability distribution such that that naturalness can be inferred, thereby providing a framework for a stable definition of K under the set of convergent models of computation.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- CoRR
دوره abs/0804.3459 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2008