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We consider a parallel computational model that consists of $P$ processors, each with a fast local ephemeral memory of limited size, and sharing a large persistent memory. The model allows for each processor to fault with bounded…

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The paper presents a systematic study and implementation of a reconfigurable combinatorial multi-operand adder for use in Deep Learning systems. The size of carry changes with the number of operands and hence a reliable algorithm to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Shilpa Mayannavar , Uday Wali

Sorting a set of items is a task that can be useful by itself or as a building block for more complex operations. The more sophisticated and fast sorting algorithms become asymptotically, the less efficient they are for small sets of items…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Jasper Marianczuk

Deep reinforcement learning has led to dramatic breakthroughs in the field of artificial intelligence for the past few years. As the amount of rollout experience data and the size of neural networks for deep reinforcement learning have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Zhihong Liu , Xin Xu , Peng Qiao , Dongsheng Li

In-place associative integer sorting technique was proposed for integer lists which requires only constant amount of additional memory replacing bucket sort, distribution counting sort and address calculation sort family of algorithms. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-09-18 A. Emre Cetin

The approximate minimum degree algorithm is widely used before numerical factorization to reduce fill-in for sparse matrices. While considerable attention has been given to the numerical factorization process, less focus has been placed on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Yen-Hsiang Chang , Aydın Buluç , James Demmel

We consider communication-efficient weighted and unweighted (uniform) random sampling from distributed data streams presented as a sequence of mini-batches of items. This is a natural model for distributed streaming computation, and our…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Lorenz Hübschle-Schneider , Peter Sanders

Generalized sparse matrix-matrix multiplication is a key primitive for many high performance graph algorithms as well as some linear solvers such as multigrid. We present the first parallel algorithms that achieve increasing speedups for an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-09 Aydın Buluç , John R. Gilbert

Since the work of Kaligosi and Sanders (2006), it is well-known that Quicksort -- which is commonly considered as one of the fastest in-place sorting algorithms -- suffers in an essential way from branch mispredictions. We present a novel…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-27 Stefan Edelkamp , Armin Weiß

To train machine learning models that are robust to distribution shifts in the data, distributionally robust optimization (DRO) has been proven very effective. However, the existing approaches to learning a distributionally robust model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Farzin Haddadpour , Mohammad Mahdi Kamani , Mehrdad Mahdavi , Amin Karbasi

Sorting is a fundamental and well studied problem that has been studied extensively. Sorting plays an important role in the area of databases, as many queries can be served much faster if the relations are first sorted. One of the most…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Yamit Barshatz-Schneor , Roy Friedman

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…

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This paper presents some of our findings on the scalability of parallel 3D mesh generation on distributed memory machines. The primary objective of this study was to evaluate a distributed memory approach for implementing a 3D parallel…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Polykarpos Thomadakis , Nikos Chrisochoides

In this paper, we analyse the dual pivot Quicksort, a variant of the standard Quicksort algorithm, in which two pivots are used for the partitioning of the array. We are solving recurrences of the expected number of key comparisons and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-31 Vasileios Iliopoulos , David B. Penman

We study the classic subgraph enumeration problem under distributed settings. Existing solutions either suffer from severe memory crisis or rely on large indexes, which makes them impractical for very large graphs. Most of them follow a…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Xuguang Ren , Junhu Wang , Wook-Shin Han , Jeffrey Xu Yu

Similarity search is one of the most fundamental computations that are regularly performed on ever-increasing protein datasets. Scalability is of paramount importance for uncovering novel phenomena that occur at very large scales. We…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Oguz Selvitopi , Saliya Ekanayake , Giulia Guidi , Muaaz G. Awan , Georgios A. Pavlopoulos , Ariful Azad , Nikos Kyrpides , Leonid Oliker , Katherine Yelick , Aydın Buluç

Quantum sampling, a fundamental subroutine in numerous quantum algorithms, involves encoding a given probability distribution in the amplitudes of a pure state. Given the hefty cost of large-scale quantum storage, we initiate the study of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Longyun Chen , Jingcheng Liu , Penghui Yao

This article describes a geometric partitioning software that can be used for quick computation of data partitions on many-core HPC machines. It is most suited for dynamic applications with load distributions that vary with time.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Aparna Sasidharan

Dualization is a key discrete enumeration problem. It is not known whether or not this problem is polynomial-time solvable. Asymptotically optimal dualization algorithms are the fastest among the known dualization algorithms, which is…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-06-01 Elena V. Djukova , Andrey G. Nikiforov , Petr A. Prokofyev

Distributed optimization and learning algorithms are designed to operate over large scale networks enabling processing of vast amounts of data effectively and efficiently. One of the main challenges for ensuring a smooth learning process in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Apostolos I. Rikos , Nicola Bastianello , Themistoklis Charalambous , Karl H. Johansson