6 papers
The many faces of multivariate information
Thomas F. Varley
Extracting higher-order structures from multivariate data has become an area of intensive study in complex systems science, as these multipartite interactions can reveal insights i…
From description to design: Automated engineering of complex systems with desirable emergent properties
Thomas F. Varley, Josh Bongard
The study of complex systems has produced a huge library of different descriptive statistics that scientists can use to describe the various emergent patterns that characterize com…
Inferring Mechanisms from Bits: Promises and Pitfalls of Higher-Order Information in Cognitive Science
D. Rebbin, K. J. A. Down, T. F. Varley +2
Higher-order information theory has become a rapidly growing toolkit in computational neuroscience, motivated by the idea that multivariate dependencies can reveal aspects of neura…
The topology of synergy: linking topological and information-theoretic approaches to higher-order interactions in complex systems
Thomas F. Varley, Pedro A. M. Mediano, Alice Patania +1
The study of irreducible higher-order interactions has become a core topic of study in complex systems. Two of the most well-developed frameworks, topological data analysis and mul…
Information Theory for Complex Systems Scientists
Thomas F. Varley
In the 21st century, many of the crucial scientific and technical issues facing humanity can be understood as problems associated with understanding, modelling, and ultimately cont…
Considering dynamical synergy and integrated information; the unusual case of minimum mutual information
Thomas F. Varley
This brief note considers the problem of estimating temporal synergy and integrated information in dyadic dynamical processes. One of the standard estimators of dynamic synergy is…