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most citedComplexity and Information: Measuring Emergence, Self-organization, and Homeostasis at Multiple Scales

145 citations · 237 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

The Art of Misclassification: Too Many Classes, Not Enough Points

Mario Franco, Gerardo Febres, Nelson Fernández +1

Classification is a ubiquitous and fundamental problem in artificial intelligence and machine learning, with extensive efforts dedicated to developing more powerful classifiers and…

cs.LG2023★ 5 cited

SEEDS: Exponential SDE Solvers for Fast High-Quality Sampling from Diffusion Models

Martin Gonzalez, Nelson Fernandez, Thuy Tran +3

A potent class of generative models known as Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs) has become prominent. A forward diffusion process adds gradually noise to data, while a model lea…

cs.SI2022

Is Soccer a lie or simply a complex system?

Nelson Fernandez, Ricardo Bernal

Understanding soccer as a complex system we base on nature and the collective behavior of many organisms that "do calculations," seeking to generate solutions in a bioinspired way.…

cs.LG2018★ 10 cited

Two-stream convolutional networks for end-to-end learning of self-driving cars

Nelson Fernandez

We propose a methodology to extend the concept of Two-Stream Convolutional Networks to perform end-to-end learning for self-driving cars with temporal cues. The system has the abil…

cs.MA2016

Multi-Agent Modeling of Dynamical Systems: A Self-organized, Emergent, Homeostatic and Autopoietic Approach

Nelson Fernandez

This thesis presents the theoretical, conceptual and methodological aspects that support the modeling of dynamical systems (DS) by using several agents. The modeling approach permi…

nlin.AO2015★ 12 cited

Measuring the Complexity of Continuous Distributions

Guillermo Santamaría-Bonfil, Nelson Fernández, Carlos Gershenson

We extend previously proposed measures of complexity, emergence, and self-organization to continuous distributions using differential entropy. This allows us to calculate the compl…

nlin.AO2014★ 63 cited

Measuring the Complexity of Self-organizing Traffic Lights

Dario Zubillaga, Geovany Cruz, Luis Daniel Aguilar +5

We apply measures of complexity, emergence and self-organization to an abstract city traffic model for comparing a traditional traffic coordination method with a self-organizing me…

q-bio.PE2013

Measuring Complexity in an Aquatic Ecosystem

Nelson Fernandez, Carlos Gershenson

We apply formal measures of emergence, self-organization, homeostasis, autopoiesis and complexity to an aquatic ecosystem; in particular to the physiochemical component of an Arcti…

nlin.AO2013★ 1 cited

Information Measures of Complexity, Emergence, Self-organization, Homeostasis, and Autopoiesis

Nelson Fernandez, Carlos Maldonado, Carlos Gershenson

This chapter reviews measures of emergence, self-organization, complexity, homeostasis, and autopoiesis based on information theory. These measures are derived from proposed axioms…

cs.IT2012★ 145 cited

Complexity and Information: Measuring Emergence, Self-organization, and Homeostasis at Multiple Scales

Carlos Gershenson, Nelson Fernandez

Concepts used in the scientific study of complex systems have become so widespread that their use and abuse has led to ambiguity and confusion in their meaning. In this paper we us…