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With the rapid development of quantum computers, quantum algorithms have been studied extensively. However, quantum algorithms tackling statistical problems are still lacking. In this paper, we propose a novel non-oracular quantum adaptive…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-07-20 Wenxuan Zhong , Yuan Ke , Ye Wang , Yongkai Chen , Jinyang Chen , Ping Ma

The problem of sorting with priced information was introduced by [Charikar, Fagin, Guruswami, Kleinberg, Raghavan, Sahai (CFGKRS), STOC 2000]. In this setting, different comparisons have different (potentially infinite) costs. The goal is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Mayank Goswami , Riko Jacob

Bipartite ranking is an important supervised learning problem; however, unlike regression or classification, it has a quadratic dependence on the number of samples. To circumvent the prohibitive sample cost, many recent work focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-03 San Gultekin , John Paisley

Evolutionary algorithms rely very heavily on randomized behavior. Execution speed, therefore, depends strongly on how we implement randomness, such as our choice of pseudorandom number generator, or the algorithms used to map pseudorandom…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Vincent A. Cicirello

Sorting is an essential operation in computer science with direct consequences on the performance of large scale data systems, real-time systems, and embedded computation. However, no sorting algorithm is optimal under all distributions of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Shrinivass Arunachalam Balasubramanian

This paper describes in detail the bitonic sort algorithm,and implements the bitonic sort algorithm based on cuda architecture.At the same time,we conduct two effective optimization of implementation details according to the characteristics…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-10-31 Qi Mu , Liqing Cui , Yufei Song

We introduce a novel framework for analyzing sorting algorithms in pairwise ranking prompting (PRP), re-centering the cost model around LLM inferences rather than traditional pairwise comparisons. While classical metrics based on comparison…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Juan Wisznia , Cecilia Bolaños , Juan Tollo , Giovanni Marraffini , Agustín Gianolini , Noe Hsueh , Luciano Del Corro

We engineer algorithms for sorting huge data sets on massively parallel machines. The algorithms are based on the multiway merging paradigm. We first outline an algorithm whose I/O requirement is close to a lower bound. Thus, in contrast to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-10-15 Mirko Rahn , Peter Sanders , Johannes Singler

Random reshuffling, which randomly permutes the dataset each epoch, is widely adopted in model training because it yields faster convergence than with-replacement sampling. Recent studies indicate greedily chosen data orderings can further…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Yucheng Lu , Wentao Guo , Christopher De Sa

In our previous work there was some indication that Partition Sort could be having a more robust average case O(nlogn) complexity than the popular Quick Sort. In our first study in this paper, we reconfirm this through computer experiments…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-03-28 Niraj Kumar Singh , Mita Pal , Soubhik Chakraborty

The two-sample problem, which consists in testing whether independent samples on $\mathbb{R}^d$ are drawn from the same (unknown) distribution, finds applications in many areas. Its study in high-dimension is the subject of much attention,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-02-09 Stephan Clémençon , Myrto Limnios , Nicolas Vayatis

Dropout has been witnessed with great success in training deep neural networks by independently zeroing out the outputs of neurons at random. It has also received a surge of interest for shallow learning, e.g., logistic regression. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Zhe Li , Boqing Gong , Tianbao Yang

Sorting algorithms are the deciding factor for the performance of common operations such as removal of duplicates or database sort-merge joins. This work focuses on 32-bit integer keys, optionally paired with a 32-bit value. We present a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-09-07 Jan Wassenberg , Peter Sanders

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 introduce XiSort, a deterministic and reproducible sorting algorithm for floating-point sequences based on IEEE-754 total ordering and entropy minimization. XiSort guarantees bit-for-bit stability across runs and platforms by resolving…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Faruk Alpay

Many fundamental problems in computational geometry admit no algorithm running in $o(n \log n)$ time for $n$ planar input points, via classical reductions from sorting. Prominent examples include the computation of convex hulls, quadtrees,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Ivor van der Hoog , Eva Rotenberg , Jack Spalding-Jamieson , Lasse Wulf

The frequent elements problem, a key component in demanding stream-data analytics, involves selecting elements whose occurrence exceeds a user-specified threshold. Fast, memory-efficient $\epsilon$-approximate synopsis algorithms select all…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Victor Jarlow , Charalampos Stylianopoulos , Marina Papatriantafilou

This paper shows an application of the theory of sorting networks to facilitate the synthesis of optimized general purpose sorting libraries. Standard sorting libraries are often based on combinations of the classic Quicksort algorithm with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-09 Michael Codish , Luís Cruz-Filipe , Markus Nebel , Peter Schneider-Kamp

Bitmap indexes are widely used for read-intensive analytical workloads because they are clustered and offer efficient reads with a small memory footprint. However, they are notoriously inefficient to update. As analytical applications are…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Junchang Wang , Manos Athanassoulis

We introduce AdaSub, a stochastic optimization algorithm that computes a search direction based on second-order information in a low-dimensional subspace that is defined adaptively based on available current and past information. Compared…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-08 João Victor Galvão da Mata , Martin S. Andersen