From the origin of life to pandemics: Emergent phenomena in complex systems

O Artime, M De Domenico - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
When a large number of similar entities interact among each other and with their
environment at a low scale, unexpected outcomes at higher spatio-temporal scales might …

On the salient limitations of the methods of assembly theory and their classification of molecular biosignatures

A Uthamacumaran, FS Abrahão, NA Kiani… - npj Systems Biology and …, 2024 - nature.com
We demonstrate that the assembly pathway method underlying assembly theory (AT) is an
encoding scheme widely used by popular statistical compression algorithms. We show that …

The future of fundamental science led by generative closed-loop artificial intelligence

H Zenil, J Tegnér, FS Abrahão, A Lavin… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Recent advances in machine learning and AI, including Generative AI and LLMs, are
disrupting technological innovation, product development, and society as a whole. AI's …

Flickering emergences: The question of locality in information-theoretic approaches to emergence

TF Varley - Entropy, 2022 - mdpi.com
“Emergence”, the phenomenon where a complex system displays properties, behaviours, or
dynamics not trivially reducible to its constituent elements, is one of the defining properties of …

Assembly theory is an approximation to algorithmic complexity based on LZ compression that does not explain selection or evolution

FS Abrahão, S Hernández-Orozco, NA Kiani… - PLOS Complex …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
We formally prove the equivalence between Assembly Theory (AT) and Shannon Entropy
via a method based upon the principles of statistical compression that belongs to the LZ …

YAQQ: Yet Another Quantum Quantizer--Design Space Exploration of Quantum Gate Sets using Novelty Search

A Sarkar, A Kundu, M Steinberg, S Mishra… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
In the standard circuit model of quantum computation, the number and quality of the
quantum gates composing the circuit influence the runtime and fidelity of the computation …

Assembly Theory Reduced to Shannon Entropy and Rendered Redundant by Naive Statistical Algorithms

L Ozelim, A Uthamacumaran, FS Abrahão… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We respond to arguments against our criticism that claim to show a divergence of Assembly
Theory from popular compression. We have proven that any implementation of the concept …

Emergence in artificial life

C Gershenson - Artificial Life, 2023 - direct.mit.edu
Even when concepts similar to emergence have been used since antiquity, we lack an
agreed definition. However, emergence has been identified as one of the main features of …

Minimal algorithmic information loss methods for dimension reduction, feature selection and network sparsification

H Zenil, NA Kiani, A Adams, FS Abrahão… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
We present a novel, domain-agnostic, model-independent, unsupervised, and universally
applicable approach for data summarization. Specifically, we focus on addressing the …

An optimal, universal and agnostic decoding method for message reconstruction, bio and technosignature detection

H Zenil, A Adams, FS Abrahão - arxiv preprint arxiv:2303.16045, 2023 - arxiv.org
We present a signal reconstruction method for zero-knowledge one-way communication
channels in which a receiver aims to interpret a message sent by an unknown source about …