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We study the space requirements of a sorting algorithm where only items that at the end will be adjacent are kept together. This is equivalent to the following combinatorial problem: Consider a string of fixed length n that starts as a…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Svante Janson

Proportional apportionment is the problem of assigning seats to parties according to their relative share of votes. Divisor methods are the de-facto standard solution, used in many countries. In recent literature, there are two algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Raphael Reitzig , Sebastian Wild

This paper provides a theoretical and numerical comparison of classical first-order splitting methods for solving smooth convex optimization problems and cocoercive equations. From a theoretical point of view, we compare convergence rates…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-15 Luis Briceño-Arias , Nelly Pustelnik

This work studies rearrangement problems involving the sorting of robots or objects in stack-like containers, which can be accessed only from one side. Two scenarios are considered: one where every robot or object needs to reach a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-07-03 Shuai D. Han , Nicholas M. Stiffler , Kostas E. Bekris , Jingjin Yu

We address the problem of learning a ranking by using adaptively chosen pairwise comparisons. Our goal is to recover the ranking accurately but to sample the comparisons sparingly. If all comparison outcomes are consistent with the ranking,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-06-16 Lucas Maystre , Matthias Grossglauser

We reconsider a recently published algorithm (Dalkilic et al.) for merging lists by way of the perfect shuffle. The original publication gave only experimental results which, although consistent with linear execution time on the samples…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-08-04 John Ellis , Ulrike Stege

This paper introduces a new comparison base stable sorting algorithm, named RS sort. RS Sort involves only the comparison of pair of elements in an array which ultimately sorts the array and does not involve the comparison of each element…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-07-23 Harsh Ranjan , Sumit Agarwal , Niraj Kumar Singh

We consider a simple approach to solving assortment optimization under the random utility maximization model. The approach uses Monte-Carlo simulation to construct a ranking-based choice model that serves as a proxy for the true choice…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Hassaan Khalid , Bradley Sturt

In this paper, we demonstrate that in many NP-complete variants of the stable matching problem, such as the Stable Hypergraph Matching problem, the Stable Multicommodity Flow problem, and the College Admission problem with common quotas, a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Gergely Csáji

Sorting algorithms are the most extensively researched topics in computer science and serve for numerous practical applications. Although various sorts have been proposed for efficiency, different architectures offer distinct flavors to the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Jincheng Zhou , Jin Zhang , Xiang Zhang , Tiaojie Xiao , Di Ma , Chunye Gong

We empirically study sorting in the evolving data model. In this model, a sorting algorithm maintains an approximation to the sorted order of a list of data items while simultaneously, with each comparison made by the algorithm, an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Juan Jose Besa , William E. Devanny , David Eppstein , Michael Goodrich , Timothy Johnson

We study the active learning problem of top-$k$ ranking from multi-wise comparisons under the popular multinomial logit model. Our goal is to identify the top-$k$ items with high probability by adaptively querying sets for comparisons and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Xi Chen , Yuanzhi Li , Jieming Mao

We study the problem of optimizing assortment decisions in the presence of product-specific costs when customers choose according to a multinomial logit model. This problem is NP-hard and approximate solutions methods have been proposed in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-05 Markus Leitner , Andrea Lodi , Roberto Roberti , Claudio Sole

We present a planner for large-scale (un)labeled object sorting tasks, which uses two types of manipulation actions: overhead grasping and planar pushing. The grasping action offers completeness guarantee under mild assumptions, and planar…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Zherong Pan , Kris Hauser

Several new accelerated methods in minimax optimization and fixed-point iterations have recently been discovered, and, interestingly, they rely on a mechanism distinct from Nesterov's momentum-based acceleration. In this work, we show that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-19 TaeHo Yoon , Ernest K. Ryu

There has been surprisingly little work on algorithms for sorting strings on distributed-memory parallel machines. We develop efficient algorithms for this problem based on the multi-way merging principle. These algorithms inspect only…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-24 Timo Bingmann , Peter Sanders , Matthias Schimek

Motivated by the applications of rental services in e-commerce, we consider revenue maximization in online assortment of reusable resources for a stream of arriving consumers with different types. We design competitive online algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Yiding Feng , Rad Niazadeh , Amin Saberi

We introduce a new sorting algorithm that is the combination of ML-enhanced sorting with the In-place Super Scalar Sample Sort (IPS4o). The main contribution of our work is to achieve parallel ML-enhanced sorting, as previous algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Ivan Carvalho

We introduce a sorting machine consisting of $k+1$ stacks in series: the first $k$ stacks can only contain elements in decreasing order from top to bottom, while the last one has the opposite restriction. This device generalizes \cite{SM},…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Giulio Cerbai , Lapo Cioni , Luca Ferrari

Given a sequence of $n$ numbers and $k$ parallel First-in-First-Out (FIFO) queues, how close can one bring the sequence to sorted order? It is known that $k$ queues suffice to sort the sequence if the Longest Decreasing Subsequence (LDS) of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Andreas Karrenbauer , Kurt Mehlhorn , Pranabendu Misra , Paolo Luigi Rinaldi , Anna Twelsiek , Alireza Haqi , Siavash Rahimi Shateranloo