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Recent work by Google DeepMind introduced assembly-optimized sorting networks that achieve faster performance for small fixed-size arrays (3-8). In this research, we investigate the integration of these networks as base cases in classical…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Anas Gamal Aly , Anders E. Jensen , Hala ElAarag

This work presents a comparison for the performance of sequential sorting algorithms under four different modes of execution, the sequential processing mode, a conventional multi-threading implementation, multi-threading with OpenMP Library…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Mohammad Fasha

I prove that the average number of comparisons for median-of-$k$ Quicksort (with fat-pivot a.k.a. three-way partitioning) is asymptotically only a constant $\alpha_k$ times worse than the lower bound for sorting random multisets with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Sebastian Wild

In computer science, sorting algorithms are crucial for data processing and machine learning. Large datasets and high efficiency requirements provide challenges for comparison-based algorithms like Quicksort and Merge sort, which achieve…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Amin Amini

We propose new sequential sorting operations by adapting techniques and methods used for designing parallel sorting algorithms. Although the norm is to parallelize a sequential algorithm to improve performance, we adapt a contrarian…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-09-01 Alexandros V Gerbessiotis

Semisort is a fundamental algorithmic primitive widely used in the design and analysis of efficient parallel algorithms. It takes input as an array of records and a function extracting a \emph{key} per record, and reorders them so that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Xiaojun Dong , Yunshu Wu , Zhongqi Wang , Laxman Dhulipala , Yan Gu , Yihan Sun

We investigate distributed memory parallel sorting algorithms that scale to the largest available machines and are robust with respect to input size and distribution of the input elements. The main outcome is that four sorting algorithms…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Michael Axtmann , Peter Sanders

Sorting is a foundational primitive in modern data processing, influencing the execution speed of high-performance data pipelines. However, the algorithmic landscape is currently bifurcated by a pervasive "Stability Tax": practitioners must…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Hriday Jain , Ketan Sabale , Aditya Shastri , Hiren Kumar Thakkar , Ashutosh Londhe

A generalization of the heapsort algorithm is proposed. At the expense of about 50% more comparison and move operations for typical cases, the dualheap sort algorithm offers several advantages over heapsort: improved cache performance,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-06-21 Greg Sepesi

In our study we implemented and compared seven sequential and parallel sorting algorithms: bitonic sort, multistep bitonic sort, adaptive bitonic sort, merge sort, quicksort, radix sort and sample sort. Sequential algorithms were…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-11-13 Darko Bozidar , Tomaz Dobravec

In this paper, we propose a useful replacement for quicksort-style utility functions. The replacement is called Symmetry Partition Sort, which has essentially the same principle as Proportion Extend Sort. The maximal difference between them…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-06-04 Jing-Chao Chen

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

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

In this paper, we present the design of a sample sort algorithm for manycore GPUs. Despite being one of the most efficient comparison-based sorting algorithms for distributed memory architectures its performance on GPUs was previously…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-10-01 Nikolaj Leischner , Vitaly Osipov , Peter Sanders

Query re-optimization is an adaptive query processing technique that re-invokes the optimizer at certain points in query execution. The goal is to dynamically correct the cardinality estimation errors using the statistics collected at…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Junyi Zhao , Huanchen Zhang , Yihan Gao

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

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

We present in this paper two different classes of general $K$-splitting algorithms for solving finite-dimensional convex optimization problems. Under the assumption that the function being minimized has a Lipschitz continuous gradient, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Donald Goldfarb , Shiqian Ma

Most previous studies of the sorting algorithm QuickSort have used the number of key comparisons as a measure of the cost of executing the algorithm. Here we suppose that the n independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) keys are each…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-03-14 James Allen Fill

Various decision support systems are available that implement Data Mining and Data Warehousing techniques for diving into the sea of data for getting useful patterns of knowledge (pearls). Classification, regression, clustering, and many…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Mohammad Khalid Imam Rahmani