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Sorting a set of items is a task that can be useful by itself or as a building block for more complex operations. That is why a lot of effort has been put into finding sorting algorithms that sort large sets as fast as possible. But the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Timo Bingmann , Jasper Marianczuk , Peter Sanders

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

Clustering is an unsupervised machine learning methodology where unlabeled elements/objects are grouped together aiming to the construction of well-established clusters that their elements are classified according to their similarity. The…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-20 Dimitrios Saligkaras , Vasileios E. Papageorgiou

Motivated by the development of computer theory, the sorting algorithm is emerging in an endless stream. Inspired by decrease and conquer method, we propose a brand new sorting algorithmUltimately Heapsort. The algorithm consists of two…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Feiyang Chen , Nan Chen , Hanyang Mao , Hanlin Hu

We present a deterministic comparison-based algorithm that sorts sequences avoiding a fixed permutation $\pi$ in linear time, even if $\pi$ is a priori unkown. Moreover, the dependence of the multiplicative constant on the pattern $\pi$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Michal Opler

A simple and fast analysis method to sort large data sets into groups with shared distinguishing characteristics is described, and applied to single molecular break junction conductance versus electrode displacement data. The method, based…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-10 J. M. Hamill , X. T. Zhao , G. Mészáros , M. R. Bryce , M. Arenz

First-order stochastic methods are the state-of-the-art in large-scale machine learning optimization owing to efficient per-iteration complexity. Second-order methods, while able to provide faster convergence, have been much less explored…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-01 Naman Agarwal , Brian Bullins , Elad Hazan

Clustering is one of the most common unsupervised learning tasks in machine learning and data mining. Clustering algorithms have been used in a plethora of applications across several scientific fields. However, there has been limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-02-09 Quang N. Tran , Ba-Ngu Vo , Dinh Phung , Ba-Tuong Vo

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

Twinned regression methods are designed to solve the dual problem to the original regression problem, predicting differences between regression targets rather then the targets themselves. A solution to the original regression problem can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Sebastian J. Wetzel

LearnedSort is a novel sorting algorithm that, unlike traditional methods, uses fast ML models to boost the sorting speed. The models learn to estimate the input's distribution and arrange the keys in sorted order by predicting their…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Ani Kristo , Kapil Vaidya , Tim Kraska

Merging two sorted arrays is a prominent building block for sorting and other functions. Its efficient parallelization requires balancing the load among compute cores, minimizing the extra work brought about by parallelization, and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-06-23 Oded Green , Saher Odeh , Yitzhak Birk

In this paper we present TSSort, a probabilistic, noise resistant, quickly converging comparison sort algorithm based on Microsoft TrueSkill. The algorithm combines TrueSkill's updating rules with a newly developed next item pair selection…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-17 Jörn Hees , Benjamin Adrian , Ralf Biedert , Thomas Roth-Berghofer , Andreas Dengel

When dealing with massive data sorting, we usually use Hadoop which is a framework that allows for the distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers using simple programming models. A common approach in implement of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-06-02 Zhuo Wang , Longlong Tian , Dianjie Guo , Xiaoming Jiang

We describe a seriation algorithm for ranking a set of items given pairwise comparisons between these items. Intuitively, the algorithm assigns similar rankings to items that compare similarly with all others. It does so by constructing a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-11 Fajwel Fogel , Alexandre d'Aspremont , Milan Vojnovic

Biclustering is a class of techniques that simultaneously clusters the rows and columns of a matrix to sort heterogeneous data into homogeneous blocks. Although many algorithms have been proposed to find biclusters, existing methods suffer…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-11 Michelle N. Ngo , Dustin S. Pluta , Alexander N. Ngo , Babak Shahbaba

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

We study sorting algorithms based on randomized round-robin comparisons. Specifically, we study Spin-the-bottle sort, where comparisons are unrestricted, and Annealing sort, where comparisons are restricted to a distance bounded by a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Michael T. Goodrich

Owing to human labor shortages, the automation of labor-intensive manual waste-sorting is needed. The goal of automating waste-sorting is to replace the human role of robust detection and agile manipulation of waste items with robots. To…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Takuya Kiyokawa , Hiroki Katayama , Yuya Tatsuta , Jun Takamatsu , Tsukasa Ogasawara

A novel integer value-sorting technique is proposed replacing bucket sort, distribution counting sort and address calculation sort family of algorithms. It requires only constant amount of additional memory. The technique is inspired from…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-11-02 A. Emre Cetin