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TR00-015 | 16th February 2000
Andrej Muchnik, Alexej Semenov

Multi-conditional Descriptions and Codes in Kolmogorov Complexity


TR13-158 | 18th November 2013
Gábor Braun, Rahul Jain, Troy Lee, Sebastian Pokutta

Information-theoretic approximations of the nonnegative rank

Revisions: 3

Common information was introduced by Wyner as a measure of dependence of two
random variables. This measure has been recently resurrected as a lower bound on the logarithm of the nonnegative rank of a nonnegative matrix. Lower bounds on nonnegative rank have important applications to several areas such
as communication ... more >>>


TR18-043 | 22nd February 2018
Andrei Romashchenko, Marius Zimand

An operational characterization of mutual information in algorithmic information theory

Revisions: 2

We show that the mutual information, in the sense of Kolmogorov complexity, of any pair of strings
$x$ and $y$ is equal, up to logarithmic precision, to the length of the longest shared secret key that
two parties, one having $x$ and the complexity profile of the pair and the ... more >>>


TR25-186 | 19th November 2025
Aran Nayebi

Intrinsic Barriers and Practical Pathways for Human-AI Alignment: An Agreement-Based Complexity Analysis

We formalize AI alignment as a multi-objective optimization problem called $\langle M,N,\varepsilon,\delta\rangle$-agreement, in which a set of $N$ agents (including humans) must reach approximate ($\varepsilon$) agreement across $M$ candidate objectives, with probability at least $1-\delta$.
Analyzing communication complexity, we prove an information-theoretic lower bound showing that once either $M$ or ... more >>>




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