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Previous parallel sorting algorithms do not scale to the largest available machines, since they either have prohibitive communication volume or prohibitive critical path length. We describe algorithms that are a viable compromise and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-02-26 Michael Axtmann , Timo Bingmann , Peter Sanders , Christian Schulz

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

Sorting and searching are large parts of database query processing, e.g., in the forms of index creation, index maintenance, and index lookup; and comparing pairs of keys is a substantial part of the effort in sorting and searching. We have…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Thanh Do , Goetz Graefe

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

Lexicographical sorting is a fundamental problem with applications to contingency tables, databases, Bayesian networks, and more. A standard method to lexicographically sort general data is to iteratively use a stable sort -- a sort which…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-10-08 David Haws

We present sorting algorithms that represent the fastest known techniques for a wide range of input sizes, input distributions, data types, and machines. A part of the speed advantage is due to the feature to work in-place. Previously, the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Michael Axtmann , Sascha Witt , Daniel Ferizovic , Peter Sanders

Many Pareto-based multi-objective evolutionary algorithms require to rank the solutions of the population in each iteration according to the dominance principle, what can become a costly operation particularly in the case of dealing with…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Javier Moreno , Daniel Rodriguez , Antonio Nebro , Jose A. Lozano

We present the first explicit comparison-based algorithm that sorts the sumset $X + Y = \{x_i + y_j,\ \forall 0 \le i, j < n\}$, where $X$ and $Y$ are sorted arrays of real numbers, in optimal $O(n^2)$ time and comparisons. While Fredman…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-24 S. Mundhra

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

For a linear equality constrained convex optimization problem involving two objective functions with a ``nonsmooth" + ``nonsmooth" composite structure, we study two algorithms derived from a mixed-order dynamical system which incorporates…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Geng-Hua Li , Hai-Yi Zhao , Xiangkai Sun

We present an average case analysis of a variant of dual-pivot quicksort. We show that the used algorithmic partitioning strategy is optimal, i.e., it minimizes the expected number of key comparisons. For the analysis, we calculate the…

While modern general-purpose computing systems have ample amounts of memory, it is still the case that embedded computer systems, such as in a refrigerator, are memory limited; hence, such embedded systems motivate the need for strictly…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Ofek Gila , Michael T. Goodrich , Vinesh Sridhar

We consider the problem of sorting $n$ elements in the case of \emph{persistent} comparison errors. In this model (Braverman and Mossel, SODA'08), each comparison between two elements can be wrong with some fixed (small) probability $p$,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-23 Barbara Geissmann , Stefano Leucci , Chih-Hung Liu , Paolo Penna

We consider a multi-pivot QuickSort algorithm using $K\in\mathbb{N}$ pivot elements to partition a nonsorted list into $K+1$ sublists in order to proceed recursively on these sublists. For the partitioning stage, various strategies are in…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Cecilia Holmgren , Jasper Ischebeck , Daniel Krenn , Florian Lesny , Ralph Neininger

Resource constrained project scheduling is an important combinatorial optimisation problem with many practical applications. With complex requirements such as precedence constraints, limited resources, and finance-based objectives, finding…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Dhananjay R. Thiruvady , Su Nguyen , Christian Blum , Andreas T. Ernst

An industrial grade Quicksort function along with its new algorithm is presented. Compared to 4 other well known implementations of Quicksort, the new algorithm reduces both the number of comparisons and swaps in most cases while staying…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-12 Ammar Muqaddas

This paper introduces a family of learning-augmented algorithms for online knapsack problems that achieve near Pareto-optimal consistency-robustness trade-offs through a simple combination of trusted learning-augmented and worst-case…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Mohammadreza Daneshvaramoli , Helia Karisani , Adam Lechowicz , Bo Sun , Cameron Musco , Mohammad Hajiesmaili

The approximate sorting for big data is considered in this paper. The goal of approximate sorting for big data is to generate an approximate sorted result, but using less CPU and I/O cost. For big data, we consider the approximate sorting…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Tianpeng Gao , Jianzhong Li

Sorting is a primitive operation that is a building block for countless algorithms. As such, it is important to design sorting algorithms that approach peak performance on a range of hardware architectures. Graphics Processing Units (GPUs)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-31 Henri Casanova , John Iacono , Ben Karsin , Nodari Sitchinava , Volker Weichert

Robust optimization provides a principled and unified framework to model many problems in modern operations research and computer science applications, such as risk measures minimization and adversarially robust machine learning. To use a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-04 Hao Hao , Peter Zhang