3 papers
nlin.AO2002
Synchronizing to Periodicity: The Transient Information and Synchronization Time of Periodic Sequences
David P. Feldman, James P. Crutchfield
We analyze how difficult it is to synchronize to a periodic sequence whose structure is known, when an observer is initially unaware of the sequence's phase. We examine the transie…
nlin.AO2001
Synchronizing to the Environment: Information Theoretic Constraints on Agent Learning
James P. Crutchfield, David P. Feldman
We show that the way in which the Shannon entropy of sequences produced by an information source converges to the source's entropy rate can be used to monitor how an intelligent ag…
cond-mat.stat-mech2001
Regularities Unseen, Randomness Observed: Levels of Entropy Convergence
James P. Crutchfield, David P. Feldman
We study how the Shannon entropy of sequences produced by an information source converges to the source's entropy rate. We synthesize several phenomenological approaches to applyin…