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In this paper, we present Ray-shooting Quickhull, which is a simple, randomized, outputsensitive version of the Quickhull algorithm for constructing the convex hull of a set of n points in the plane. We show that the randomized Ray-shooting…

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Recently, a new Quicksort variant due to Yaroslavskiy was chosen as standard sorting method for Oracle's Java 7 runtime library. The decision for the change was based on empirical studies showing that on average, the new algorithm is faster…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-10-29 Sebastian Wild , Markus E. Nebel

We revisit the method of Kirschenhofer, Prodinger and Tichy to calculate the moments of comparisons used by the quick sort algorithm. We reemphasize that this approach helps in calculating these quantities with less computation. We also…

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Many popular first order algorithms for convex optimization, such as forward-backward splitting, Douglas-Rachford splitting, and the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM), can be formulated as averaged iteration of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-06-28 Pontus Giselsson , Mattias Fält , Stephen Boyd

This paper addresses the average cost minimization problem for discrete-time systems with multiplicative and additive noises via reinforcement learning. By using Q-function, we propose an online learning scheme to estimate the kernel matrix…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-14 Jing Lai , Junlin Xiong

Dual-pivot quicksort refers to variants of classical quicksort where in the partitioning step two pivots are used to split the input into three segments. This can be done in different ways, giving rise to different algorithms. Recently, a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-10-14 Martin Aumüller , Martin Dietzfelbinger

Many modern iterative solvers for large-scale tomographic reconstruction incur two major computational costs per iteration: expensive forward/adjoint projections to update the data fidelity term and costly proximal computations for the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Evangelos Papoutsellis , Zeljko Kereta , Kostas Papafitsoros

In this paper, we explore the challenge of assortment planning in the context of quick-commerce, a rapidly-growing business model that aims to deliver time-sensitive products. In order to achieve quick delivery to satisfy the immediate…

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In light of recent work on scheduling with predicted job sizes, we consider the effect of the cost of predictions in queueing systems, removing the assumption in prior research that predictions are external to the system's resources and/or…

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The use of Hirschberg algorithm reduces the spatial cost of recovering the Longest Common Subsequence to linear space. The same technique can be applied to similar problems like Sequence Alignment. However, the price to pay is a duplication…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-28 David Llorens , Juan Miguel Vilar

Quicksort on the fly returns the input of $n$ reals in increasing natural order during the sorting process. Correctly normalized the running time up to returning the l-th smallest out of n seen as a process in l converges weakly to a…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-02-18 Mahmoud Ragab , Uwe Roesler

Ensembles, where multiple neural networks are trained individually and their predictions are averaged, have been shown to be widely successful for improving both the accuracy and predictive uncertainty of single neural networks. However, an…

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We study ranked enumeration of join-query results according to very general orders defined by selective dioids. Our main contribution is a framework for ranked enumeration over a class of dynamic programming problems that generalizes…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Nikolaos Tziavelis , Deepak Ajwani , Wolfgang Gatterbauer , Mirek Riedewald , Xiaofeng Yang

In this paper we study the problem of sorting under non-uniform comparison costs, where costs are either 1 or $\infty$. If comparing a pair has an associated cost of $\infty$ then we say that such a pair cannot be compared (forbidden…

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Low rank tensor learning, such as tensor completion and multilinear multitask learning, has received much attention in recent years. In this paper, we propose higher order matching pursuit for low rank tensor learning problems with a convex…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-03-10 Yuning Yang , Siamak Mehrkanoon , Johan A. K. Suykens

We introduce several modifications of the partitioning schemes used in Hoare's quicksort and quickselect algorithms, including ternary schemes which identify keys less or greater than the pivot. We give estimates for the numbers of swaps…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Krzysztof C. Kiwiel

Because of unmatched improvements in CPU performance, memory transfers have become a bottleneck of program execution. As discovered in recent years, this also affects sorting in internal memory. Since partitioning around several pivots…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Conrado Martínez , Markus Nebel , Sebastian Wild

The weak limit of the normalized number of comparisons needed by the Quicksort algorithm to sort n randomly permuted items is known to be determined implicitly by a distributional fixed-point equation. We give an algorithm for perfect…

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Fuel cost contributes to a significant portion of operating cost in cargo transportation. Though classic routing models usually treat fuel cost as input data, fuel consumption heavily depends on the travel speed, which has led to the study…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-30 Ricardo Fukasawa , Qie He , Fernando Santos , Yongjia Song

The in-situ permutation algorithm due to MacLeod replaces $(x_{1},\cdots,x_{n})$ by $(x_{p(1)},\cdots,x_{p(n)})$ where $\pi=(p(1),\cdots,p(n))$ is a permutation of $\{1,2,\cdots,n\}$ using at most $O(1)$ space. Kirshenhofer, Prodinger and…

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