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We present a new adaptive sorting algorithm which is optimal for most disorder metrics and, more important, has a simple and quick implementation. On input $X$, our algorithm has a theoretical $\Omega (|X|)$ lower bound and a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-07-24 Marcello La Rocca , Domenico Cantone

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

We describe an exact algorithm for finding the best 2-OPT move which, experimentally, was observed to be much faster than the standard quadratic approach. To analyze its average-case complexity, we introduce a family of heuristic procedures…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Giuseppe Lancia , Paolo Vidoni

In the problem of online unweighted interval selection, the objective is to maximize the number of non-conflicting intervals accepted by the algorithm. In the conventional online model of irrevocable decisions, there is an Omega(n) lower…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Allan Borodin , Christodoulos Karavasilis

A sequential quadratic programming method is designed for solving general smooth nonlinear stochastic optimization problems subject to expectation equality constraints. We consider the setting where the objective and constraint function…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Haoming Shen , Yang Zeng , Baoyu Zhou

We revisit the well-known problem of sorting under partial information: sort a finite set given the outcomes of comparisons between some pairs of elements. The input is a partially ordered set P, and solving the problem amounts to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-01-22 Jean Cardinal , Samuel Fiorini , Gwenaël Joret , Raphaël Jungers , J. Ian Munro

We consider two combinatorial problems. The first we call "search with wildcards": given an unknown n-bit string x, and the ability to check whether any subset of the bits of x is equal to a provided query string, the goal is to output x.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-16 Andris Ambainis , Ashley Montanaro

Algorithms which sort lists of real numbers into ascending order have been studied for decades. They are typically based on a series of pairwise comparisons and run entirely on chip. However people routinely sort lists which depend on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-12-28 Samuel L Smith

We introduce the quadratic balanced optimization problem (QBOP) which can be used to model equitable distribution of resources with pairwise interaction. QBOP is strongly NP-hard even if the family of feasible solutions has a very simple…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-08-15 Abraham P. Punnen , Sara Taghipour , Daniel Karapetyan , Bishnu Bhattacharyya

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 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

In this paper we are proposing a new sorting algorithm, List Sort algorithm, is based on the dynamic memory allocation. In this research study we have also shown the comparison of various efficient sorting techniques with List sort. Due the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-10-30 Adarsh Kumar Verma , Prashant Kumar

In the first place, a novel, yet straightforward in-place integer value-sorting algorithm is presented. It sorts in linear time using constant amount of additional memory for storing counters and indices beside the input array. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-07-11 A. Emre Cetin

Variational quantum algorithms constitute one of the most widespread methods for using current noisy quantum computers. However, it is unknown if these heuristic algorithms provide any quantum-computational speedup, although we cannot…

We present a sorting algorithm for the case of recurrent random comparison errors. The algorithm essentially achieves simultaneously good properties of previous algorithms for sorting $n$ distinct elements in this model. In particular, it…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-09-22 Barbara Geissmann , Stefano Leucci , Chih-Hung Liu , Paolo Penna

We propose two distributed iterative algorithms that can be used to solve, in finite time, the distributed optimization problem over quadratic local cost functions in large-scale networks. The first algorithm exhibits synchronous operation…

This paper will analyze several quadratic-time solvable problems, and will classify them into two classes: problems that are solvable in truly subquadratic time (that is, in time $O(n^{2-\epsilon})$ for some $\epsilon>0$) and problems that…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-07-21 Michele Borassi , Pierluigi Crescenzi , Michel Habib

Quantum dynamics is of fundamental interest and has implications in quantum information processing. The four-point out-of-time-ordered correlator (OTOC) is traditionally used to quantify quantum information scrambling under many-body…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-06 Roy J. Garcia , You Zhou , Arthur Jaffe

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

The \Problem{knapsack} problem is a fundamental problem in combinatorial optimization. It has been studied extensively from theoretical as well as practical perspectives as it is one of the most well-known NP-hard problems. The goal is to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-03 MohammadHossein Bateni , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Saeed Seddighin , Cliff Stein