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Thomas F. Varley@thosvarley.bsky.social · 8mo ago

New preprint on unifying the zoo of multivariate higher-order information measures into a common form. May be of interest to anyone interested in higher-order interactions, complex systems, emergence, or complexity. 1/N arxiv.org/abs/2601.08030

The many faces of multivariate information

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 into fundamental feat...

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Thomas F. Varley@thosvarley.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🚨New paper! 🚨 "The topology of synergy: Linking topological and information-theoretic approaches to higher-order interactions in complex systems" 1/N journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

The topology of synergy: Linking topological and information-theoretic approaches to higher-order interactions in complex systems

Author summary The problem of understanding when a set of interacting components of a complex systems produce behavior that is “greater than the sum of their parts" is foundational in many areas of mo...

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Josh Bongard@doctorjosh.bsky.social · last yr.

We published a new xenobot-related paper today: journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol... In a nutshell: building xenobots from frog "explants" is good because explants, apparently, come with adaptive potential "built in". This paper took 6 years and 10 co-authors (see post #2) to reach the light.

Revealing non-trivial information structures in aneural biological tissues via functional connectivity

Author summary A central challenge in understanding several diverse processes in biology, including morphogenesis, wound healing, and development, is learning from empirical data how information is in...

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Thomas F. Varley@thosvarley.bsky.social · last yr.

New pre-print just dropped, with @doctorjosh.bsky.social, @alicepatania.bsky.social, and Pedro Mediano. In it we ask: when an algebraic topologist and an information theorist talk about "higher-order" structure, are they talking about the same thing? A 🧵1/n arxiv.org/abs/2504.10140

The topology of synergy: linking topological and information-theoretic approaches to higher-order interactions in complex systems

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 multivariate informatio...

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