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Smart Sort algorithm is a "smart" fusion of heap construction procedures (of Heap sort algorithm) into the conventional "Partition" function (of Quick sort algorithm) resulting in a robust version of Quick sort algorithm. We have also…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-04-24 Niraj Kumar Singh , Soubhik Chakraborty

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

The aim of the paper is to introduce general techniques in order to optimize the parallel execution time of sorting on a distributed architectures with processors of various speeds. Such an application requires a partitioning step. For…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Christophe Cérin , Jean-Christophe Dubacq , Jean-Louis Roch , the SafeScale Collaboration

Sorting is a foundational primitive in modern data processing, influencing the execution speed of high-performance data pipelines. However, the algorithmic landscape is currently bifurcated by a pervasive "Stability Tax": practitioners must…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Hriday Jain , Ketan Sabale , Aditya Shastri , Hiren Kumar Thakkar , Ashutosh Londhe

We present a deterministic parallel multilevel algorithm for balanced hypergraph partitioning that matches the state of the art for non-deterministic algorithms. Deterministic parallel algorithms produce the same result in each invocation,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Robert Krause , Lars Gottesbüren , Nikolai Maas

This paper introduces a novel and efficient partitioning technique for quicksort, specifically designed for real-world data with duplicate elements (50-year-old problem). The method is referred to as "equal quicksort" or "eqsort". Based on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Parviz Afereidoon

In this paper, we propose a useful replacement for quicksort-style utility functions. The replacement is called Symmetry Partition Sort, which has essentially the same principle as Proportion Extend Sort. The maximal difference between them…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-06-04 Jing-Chao Chen

We give a deterministic algorithm that, given a composite number $N$ and a target order $D \ge N^{1/6}$, runs in time $D^{1/2+o(1)}$ and finds either an element $a \in \mathbb{Z}_N^*$ of multiplicative order at least $D$, or a nontrivial…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Ziv Oznovich , Ben Lee Volk

A wide variety of machine learning algorithms such as support vector machine (SVM), minimax probability machine (MPM), and Fisher discriminant analysis (FDA), exist for binary classification. The purpose of this paper is to provide a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-06-22 Akiko Takeda , Hiroyuki Mitsugi , Takafumi Kanamori

Sorting an array is a fundamental routine in machine learning, one that is used to compute rank-based statistics, cumulative distribution functions (CDFs), quantiles, or to select closest neighbors and labels. The sorting function is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Marco Cuturi , Olivier Teboul , Jean-Philippe Vert

In high performance computing, researchers try to optimize the CPU Scheduling algorithms, for faster and efficient working of computers. But a process needs both CPU bound and I/O bound for completion of its execution. With modernization of…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Amar Ranjan Dash , Sandipta Kumar Sahu , B Kewal

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

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

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

For the last thirty years, several Dynamic Memory Managers (DMMs) have been proposed. Such DMMs include first fit, best fit, segregated fit and buddy systems. Since the performance, memory usage and energy consumption of each DMM differs,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-16 José L. Risco-Martín , David Atienza , J. Manuel Colmenar , Oscar Garnica

Sorting is one of the fundamental problems in computer science. Playing a role in many processes, it has a lower complexity bound imposed by $\mathcal{O}(n\log{n})$ when executing on a sequential machine. This limit can be brought down to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Daniel Bascones , Borja Morcillo

In this paper, a centralized two-block separable optimization is considered for which a fully parallel primal-dual discrete-time algorithm with fixed step size is derived based on monotone operator splitting method. In this algorithm, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-30 S. Sh. Alaviani , A. G. Kelkar

TimSort is a well-established sorting algorithm whose running time depends on how sorted the input already is. Recently, Eppstein, Goodrich, Illickan, and To designed algorithms inspired by TimSort for Pareto front, planar convex hull, and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Ivor van der Hoog , Eva Rotenberg , Daniel Rutschmann

In this paper we study the partitioning approach for multiprocessor real-time scheduling. This approach seems to be the easiest since, once the partitioning of the task set has been done, the problem reduces to well understood uniprocessor…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2011-02-03 Irina Lupu , Pierre Courbin , Laurent George , Joël Goossens

Sorting is one of the most basic primitives in many algorithms and data analysis tasks. Comparison-based sorting algorithms, like quick-sort and merge-sort, are known to be optimal when the outcome of each comparison is error-free. However,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Ragesh Jaiswal , Amit Kumar , Jatin Yadav