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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

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

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

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

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

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

Sorting is an essential operation which is widely used and is fundamental to some very basic day to day utilities like searches, databases, social networks and much more. Optimizing this basic operation in terms of complexity as well as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Peeyush Kumar , Ayushe Gangal , Sunita Kumari , Sunita Tiwari

We address the problem of learning a ranking by using adaptively chosen pairwise comparisons. Our goal is to recover the ranking accurately but to sample the comparisons sparingly. If all comparison outcomes are consistent with the ranking,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-06-16 Lucas Maystre , Matthias Grossglauser

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

We introduce and analyse a new, extremely simple, randomised sorting algorithm: - choose a pair of indices $\{i, j\}$ according to some distribution $q$; - sort the elements in positions $i$ and $j$ of the array in ascending order. Choosing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Sam Olesker-Taylor

The last decade has seen a revolution in the theory and application of machine learning and pattern recognition. Through these advancements, variable ranking has emerged as an active and growing research area and it is now beginning to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Giorgio Roffo

Sorting, a classical combinatorial process, forms the bedrock of numerous algorithms with varied applications. A related problem involves efficiently finding the corresponding ranks of all the elements - catering to rank queries, data…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-24 Sourav Dutta

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

Smart Sort algorithm is a "smart" fusion of heap construction procedures (of Heap sort algorithm) into the conventional "Partition" function (of Quick sort algorithm) resulting in a robust version of Quick sort algorithm. We have also…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-04-24 Niraj Kumar Singh , Soubhik Chakraborty

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

We study very simple sorting algorithms based on a probabilistic comparator model. In our model, errors in comparing two elements are due to (1) the energy or effort put in the comparison and (2) the difference between the compared…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Barbara Geissmann , Paolo Penna

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

The technique of in-situ associative permuting is introduced which is an association of in-situ permuting and in-situ inverting. It is suitable for associatively permutable permutations of {1,2,...,n} where the elements that will be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-01-11 A. Emre Cetin

Learning from the multidimensional data has been an interesting concept in the field of machine learning. However, such learning can be difficult, complex, expensive because of expensive data processing, manipulations as the number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Mahbubur Rahman

In the work we discuss the benefit of using bitwise operations in programming. Some interesting examples in this respect have been shown. What is described in detail is an algorithm for sorting an integer array with the substantial use of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2013-12-03 Krasimir Yordzhev