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Reference manual

The Pleros manual covers the scientific foundations of the library, its implementation and applications to symbolic signals and nonlinear dynamics.

Download the manual (PDF)

The PDF includes the earlier class-based API. Use the API and installation pages on this site for executable examples, or consult the migration reference when adapting a manual example.

Reading guide

Topic Documentation
Installation Install
Factorization and factor boundaries LZ76 factorization, worked example
Entropy density and normalization Entropy density, alphabets and units
Effective measure complexity E E, calculation
Information distance Information distance
Sequence encoding, construction and transformations Python inputs, Rust API
Functions, parameters and result structures Python API, Rust API
Suffix arrays, LCP and longest previous factors Inside the implementation
Parallel execution Execution, performance
Standalone tools and batch processing CLI overview, input formats
Interpreting results and finite-size effects Reading the numbers, length and convergence
Neural signals and connectivity Neural time-series
Coupled oscillators and parameter scans Dynamical systems
Citation and scientific background Authors and citation, references