Input–output maps are strongly biased towards simple outputs

Algorithmic information theory measures the complexity of strings. Here the authors provide a practical bound on the probability that a randomly generated computer program produces a given output of a given complexity and apply this upper bound to RNA folding and financial trading algorithms.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kamaludin Dingle, Chico Q. Camargo, Ard A. Louis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-02-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03101-6