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20162025
most citedNoether charge, black hole volume, and complexity

258 citations · 564 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.IT2025

Which Similarity-Sensitive Entropy (Sentropy)?

Phuc Nguyen, Josiah Couch, Rahul Bansal +5

Shannon entropy is not the only entropy that is relevant to machine-learning datasets, nor possibly even the most important one. Traditional entropies such as Shannon entropy captu…

cs.LG2025

X-Factor: Quality Is a Dataset-Intrinsic Property

Josiah Couch, Miao Li, Rima Arnaout +1

In the universal quest to optimize machine-learning classifiers, three factors -- model architecture, dataset size, and class balance -- have been shown to influence test-time perf…

cs.CV2024

Beyond Size and Class Balance: Alpha as a New Dataset Quality Metric for Deep Learning

Josiah Couch, Rima Arnaout, Ramy Arnaout

In deep learning, achieving high performance on image classification tasks requires diverse training sets. However, the current best practice$\unicode{x2013}$maximizing dataset siz…

q-bio.QM2023★ 1 cited

Scaling Monte-Carlo-Based Inference on Antibody and TCR Repertoires

Josiah Couch, Rohit Arora, Jasper Braun +5

Previously, it has been shown that maximum-entropy models of immune-repertoire sequence can be used to determine a person's vaccination status. However, this approach has the drawb…

quant-ph2023★ 3 cited

One-half reflected entropy is not a lower bound for entanglement of purification

Josiah Couch, Phuc Nguyen, Sarah Racz +2

In recent work, Akers et al. proved that the entanglement of purification is bounded below by half of the -Rényi reflected entropy for all ,…

hep-th2021★ 17 cited

Circuit Complexity in Topological Quantum Field Theory

Josiah Couch, Yale Fan, Sanjit Shashi

Quantum circuit complexity has played a central role in recent advances in holography and many-body physics. Within quantum field theory, it has typically been studied in a Lorentz…

hep-th2019★ 103 cited

Complexity of Mixed States in QFT and Holography

Elena Caceres, Shira Chapman, Josiah D. Couch +3

We study the complexity of Gaussian mixed states in a free scalar field theory using the 'purification complexity'. The latter is defined as the lowest value of the circuit complex…

cond-mat.stat-mech2019★ 31 cited

The Speed of Quantum Information Spreading in Chaotic Systems

Josiah Couch, Stefan Eccles, Phuc Nguyen +2

We present a general theory of quantum information propagation in chaotic quantum many-body systems. The generic expectation in such systems is that quantum information does not pr…

hep-th2018★ 29 cited

Holographic Purification Complexity

Elena Cáceres, Josiah Couch, Stefan Eccles +1

We study holographic subregion complexity, and its possible connection to purification complexity suggested recently by Agón et al. In particular, we study the conjecture that subr…

hep-th2018★ 58 cited

Holographic Complexity and Volume

Josiah Couch, Stefan Eccles, Ted Jacobson +1

The previously proposed "Complexity=Volume" or CV-duality is probed and developed in several directions. We show that the apparent lack of universality for large and small black ho…

hep-th2017★ 64 cited

Holographic complexity and non-commutative gauge theory

Josiah Couch, Stefan Eccles, Willy Fischler +1

We study the holographic complexity of noncommutative field theories. The four-dimensional noncommutative super Yang-Mills theory with Moyal algebra along two of th…

hep-th2016★ 258 cited

Noether charge, black hole volume, and complexity

Josiah Couch, Willy Fischler, Phuc H. Nguyen

In this paper, we study the physical significance of the thermodynamic volumes of AdS black holes using the Noether charge formalism of Iyer and Wald. After applying this formalism…