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In the first place, a novel, yet straightforward in-place integer value-sorting algorithm is presented. It sorts in linear time using constant amount of additional memory for storing counters and indices beside the input array. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-07-11 A. Emre Cetin

This paper introduces a new comparison base stable sorting algorithm, named RS sort. RS Sort involves only the comparison of pair of elements in an array which ultimately sorts the array and does not involve the comparison of each element…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-07-23 Harsh Ranjan , Sumit Agarwal , Niraj Kumar Singh

In this paper we study several variations of the \emph{pancake flipping problem}, which is also well known as the problem of \emph{sorting by prefix reversals}. We consider the variations in the sorting process by adding with prefix…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-05-04 Masud Hasan , Atif Rahman , M. Sohel Rahman , Mahfuza Sharmin , Rukhsana Yeasmin

We study the problem of circular seriation, where we are given a matrix of pairwise dissimilarities between $n$ objects, and the goal is to find a {\em circular order} of the objects in a manner that is consistent with their dissimilarity.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Santiago Armstrong , Cristóbal Guzmán , Carlos A. Sing-Long

We present a deterministic oblivious LIFO (Stack), FIFO, double-ended and double-ended priority queue as well as an oblivious mergesort and quicksort algorithm. Our techniques and ideas include concatenating queues end-to-end, size…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-12-13 Johannes Schneider

Modern comparison sorts like quicksort suffer from performance inconsistencies due to suboptimal pivot selection, leading to $(O(N^2))$ worst-case complexity, while in-place merge sort variants face challenges with data movement overhead.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Jia Xu Wei

We propose a simulated annealing algorithm specifically tailored to optimise total retrieval times in a multi-level warehouse under complex pre-batched picking constraints. Experiments on real data from a picker-to-parts order picking…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-04-05 Alexander Eckrot , Carina Geldhauser , Jan Jurczyk

We investigate the complexity of sorting in the model of sequential quantum circuits. While it is known that in general a quantum algorithm based on comparisons alone cannot outperform classical sorting algorithms by more than a constant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hartmut Klauck

The computational equivalence between approximate counting and sampling is well established for polynomial-time algorithms. The most efficient general reduction from counting to sampling is achieved via simulated annealing, where the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-03 David G. Harris , Vladimir Kolmogorov , Hongyang Liu , Yitong Yin , Yiyao Zhang

Sorting is the task of ordering $n$ elements using pairwise comparisons. It is well known that $m=\Theta(n\log n)$ comparisons are both necessary and sufficient when the outcomes of the comparisons are observed with no noise. In this paper,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Ziao Wang , Nadim Ghaddar , Banghua Zhu , Lele Wang

Simulated annealing - moving from a tractable distribution to a distribution of interest via a sequence of intermediate distributions - has traditionally been used as an inexact method of handling isolated modes in Markov chain samplers.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Radford M. Neal

When iteratively solving linear systems By=b with Hermitian positive semi-definite $B$, and in particular when solving least-squares problems for $Ax=b$ by reformulating them as $AA^\ast y=b$, it is often observed that SOR-type methods…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-21 Peter Oswald , Weiqi Zhou

We investigate how sorting algorithms efficiently overcome the exponential size of the permutation space. Our main contribution is a new continuous-time formulation of sorting as a gradient flow on the permutohedron, yielding an independent…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Jonathan Landers

We revisit the well-known problem of sorting under partial information: sort a finite set given the outcomes of comparisons between some pairs of elements. The input is a partially ordered set P, and solving the problem amounts to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-01-22 Jean Cardinal , Samuel Fiorini , Gwenaël Joret , Raphaël Jungers , J. Ian Munro

In this paper, a sorting technique is presented that takes as input a data set whose primary key domain is known to the sorting algorithm, and works with an time efficiency of O(n+k), where k is the primary key domain. It is shown that the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Udayan Khuarana

As the number of samples and dimensionality of optimization problems related to statistics an machine learning explode, block coordinate descent algorithms have gained popularity since they reduce the original problem to several smaller…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-24 Rémi Flamary , Alain Rakotomamonjy , Gilles Gasso

Sundararajan and Chakraborty (2007) introduced a new sorting algorithm by modifying the fast and popular Quick sort and removing the interchanges. In a subsequent empirical study, Sourabh, Sundararajan and Chakraborty (2007) demonstrated…

Computation · Statistics 2012-02-28 Prashant Kumar , Anchala Kumari , Soubhik Chakraborty

This paper studies the average complexity on the number of comparisons for sorting algorithms. Its information-theoretic lower bound is $n \lg n - 1.4427n + O(\log n)$. For many efficient algorithms, the first $n\lg n$ term is easy to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-03 Kazuo Iwama , Junichi Teruyama

We study the voting problem with two alternatives where voters' preferences depend on a not-directly-observable state variable. While equilibria in the one-round voting mechanisms lead to a good decision, they are usually hard to compute…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Qishen Han , Grant Schoenebeck , Biaoshuai Tao , Lirong Xia

Sorting is one of the fundamental problems in computer science. Playing a role in many processes, it has a lower complexity bound imposed by $\mathcal{O}(n\log{n})$ when executing on a sequential machine. This limit can be brought down to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Daniel Bascones , Borja Morcillo