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We give a more space-efficient implementation of adaptive mergesort: Virtual-Memory Powersort. Using internal buffering techniques, we significantly reduce the memory consumption of the algorithm; specifically, for sorting $n$ objects the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Finn Moltmann , Tamio-Vesa Nakajima , Sebastian Wild

Mergesort is one of the few efficient sorting algorithms and, despite being the oldest one, often still the method of choice today. In contrast to some alternative algorithms, it always runs efficiently using O(n log n) element comparisons…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Christian Siebert

This article introduces an adaptive sorting algorithm that can relocate elements accurately by substituting their values into a function which we name it the guessing function. We focus on building this function which is the mapping…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Sheng Bao , De-Shun Zheng

The objective behind the Twin Sort technique is to sort the list of unordered data elements efficiently and to allow efficient and simple arrangement of data elements within the data structure with optimization of comparisons and iterations…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Veeresh D , Thimmaraju S. N , Ravish G. K

We study the space requirements of a sorting algorithm where only items that at the end will be adjacent are kept together. This is equivalent to the following combinatorial problem: Consider a string of fixed length n that starts as a…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Svante Janson

We propose a conceptually simple oblivious sort and oblivious random permutation algorithms called bucket oblivious sort and bucket oblivious random permutation. Bucket oblivious sort uses $6n\log n$ time (measured by the number of memory…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Gilad Asharov , T-H. Hubert Chan , Kartik Nayak , Rafael Pass , Ling Ren , Elaine Shi

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

Sorting is one of the most used and well investigated algorithmic problem [1]. Traditional postulation supposes the sorting data archived, and the elementary operation as comparisons of two numbers. In a view of appearance of new processors…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-07-22 Hakob Aslanyan

We consider the problem of sorting $n$ items, given the outcomes of $m$ pre-existing comparisons. We present a simple and natural deterministic algorithm that runs in $O(m + \log T)$ time and does $O(\log T)$ comparisons, where $T$ is the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Bernhard Haeupler , Richard Hladík , John Iacono , Vaclav Rozhon , Robert Tarjan , Jakub Tětek

In this paper we examine sorting on the assumption that we do not know in advance which way to sort a sequence of numbers and we set at work simple local comparison and swap operators whose repeating application ends up in sorted sequences.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-03-11 Dimitris Kalles , Alexis Kaporis

We present a sorting algorithm for the case of recurrent random comparison errors. The algorithm essentially achieves simultaneously good properties of previous algorithms for sorting $n$ distinct elements in this model. In particular, it…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-09-22 Barbara Geissmann , Stefano Leucci , Chih-Hung Liu , Paolo Penna

An archetypal problem discussed in computer science is the problem of searching for a given number in a given set of numbers. Other than sequential search, the classic solution is to sort the list of numbers and then apply binary search.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Philon Nguyen

The sorting operation is one of the most commonly used building blocks in computer programming. In machine learning, it is often used for robust statistics. However, seen as a function, it is piecewise linear and as a result includes many…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-01 Mathieu Blondel , Olivier Teboul , Quentin Berthet , Josip Djolonga

A deterministic algorithm for factoring $n$ using $n^{1/3+o(1)}$ bit operations is presented. The algorithm tests the divisibility of $n$ by all the integers in a short interval at once, rather than integer by integer as in trial division.…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-08-01 Ghaith A. Hiary

Integer sorting is a fundamental problem in computer science. This paper studies parallel integer sort both in theory and in practice. In theory, we show tighter bounds for a class of existing practical integer sort algorithms, which…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Xiaojun Dong , Laxman Dhulipala , Yan Gu , Yihan Sun

Sorting is needed in many application domains. The data is read from memory and sent to a general purpose processor or application specific hardware for sorting. The sorted data is then written back to the memory. Reading/writing data…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Mohsen Riahi Alam , M. Hassan Najafi , Nima TaheriNejad

Sorting is a fundamental operation in various applications and a traditional research topic in computer science. Improving the performance of sorting operations can have a significant impact on many application domains. For high-performance…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Amir Hossein Jalilvand , Faeze S. Banitaba , Seyedeh Newsha Estiri , Sercan Aygun , M. Hassan Najafi

We consider the following general model of a sorting procedure: we fix a hereditary permutation class $\mathcal{C}$, which corresponds to the operations that the procedure is allowed to perform in a single step. The input of sorting is a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Vít Jelínek , Michal Opler , Jakub Pekárek

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

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