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This paper presents a deterministic parallelization to explore a Constraint Programming search space. This work is an answer to an industrial project named PAJERO, which is in need of a parallel constraint solver which always responds with…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-06-12 Tarek Menouer , Bertrand Le Cun

This paper addresses the anytime sorting problem, aiming to develop algorithms providing tentative estimates of the sorted list at each execution step. Comparisons are treated as steps, and the Spearman's footrule metric evaluates…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Emma Caizergues , François Durand , Fabien Mathieu

Matrix completion is widely used in machine learning, engineering control, image processing, and recommendation systems. Currently, a popular algorithm for matrix completion is Singular Value Threshold (SVT). In this algorithm, the singular…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Meng Qiao , Zheng Shan , Fudong Liu , Wenjie Sun

Sorting and permutation learning are key concepts in optimization and machine learning, especially when organizing high-dimensional data into meaningful spatial layouts. The Gumbel-Sinkhorn method, while effective, requires N*N parameters…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Kai Uwe Barthel , Florian Barthel , Peter Eisert

We examine sorting algorithms for $n$ elements whose basic operation is comparing $t$ elements simultaneously (a $t$-comparator). We focus on algorithms that use only a single round or two rounds -- comparisons performed in the second round…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Ran Gelles , Zvi Lotker , Frederik Mallmann-Trenn

Symmetric submodular maximization is an important class of combinatorial optimization problems, including MAX-CUT on graphs and hyper-graphs. The state-of-the-art algorithm for the problem over general constraints has an approximation ratio…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Zongqi Wan , Jialin Zhang , Xiaoming Sun , Zhijie Zhang

$ $In many optimization problems, a feasible solution induces a multi-dimensional cost vector. For example, in load-balancing a schedule induces a load vector across the machines. In $k$-clustering, opening $k$ facilities induces an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Deeparnab Chakrabarty , Chaitanya Swamy

This paper describes in detail the bitonic sort algorithm,and implements the bitonic sort algorithm based on cuda architecture.At the same time,we conduct two effective optimization of implementation details according to the characteristics…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-10-31 Qi Mu , Liqing Cui , Yufei Song

This paper presents an evolutionary algorithm with a new goal-sequence domination scheme for better decision support in multi-objective optimization. The approach allows the inclusion of advanced hard/soft priority and constraint…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-06-02 E. F. Khor , T. H. Lee , R. Sathikannan , K. C. Tan

We investigate deterministic and randomized streaming algorithms for word problems in finitely generated groups and semigroups. For this we introduce the notion of a distinguisher: a randomized streaming algorithm that processes two input…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Markus Lohrey , Lukas Lück , Alexander Thumm , Julio Xochitemol

Ranking is one of the most fundamental problems in machine learning with applications in many branches of computer science such as: information retrieval systems, recommendation systems, machine translation and computational biology.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-04-07 Krzysztof Choromanski

Adaptive indexing is a concept that considers index creation in databases as a by-product of query processing; as opposed to traditional full index creation where the indexing effort is performed up front before answering any queries.…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-04-09 Victor Alvarez , Felix Martin Schuhknecht , Jens Dittrich , Stefan Richter

Modern comparison sorts like quicksort suffer from performance inconsistencies due to suboptimal pivot selection, leading to $(O(N^2))$ worst-case complexity, while in-place merge sort variants face challenges with data movement overhead.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Jia Xu Wei

One of the most basic techniques in algorithm design consists of breaking a problem into subproblems and then proceeding recursively. In the case of graph algorithms, one way to implement this approach is through separator sets. Given a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Benjamin Jauregui , Pedro Montealegre , Ivan Rapaport

Deterministic lateral displacement (DLD) devices separate micrometer-scale particles in solution based on their size using a laminar microfluidic flow in an array of obstacles. We investigate array geometries with rational row-shift…

For effective decision support in scenarios with conflicting objectives, sets of potentially optimal solutions can be presented to the decision maker. We explore both what policies these sets should contain and how such sets can be computed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Willem Röpke , Conor F. Hayes , Patrick Mannion , Enda Howley , Ann Nowé , Diederik M. Roijers

We study the following metric distortion problem: there are two finite sets of points, $V$ and $C$, that lie in the same metric space, and our goal is to choose a point in $C$ whose total distance from the points in $V$ is as small as…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Vasilis Gkatzelis , Daniel Halpern , Nisarg Shah

Multisplit is a broadly useful parallel primitive that permutes its input data into contiguous buckets or bins, where the function that categorizes an element into a bucket is provided by the programmer. Due to the lack of an efficient…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-08 Saman Ashkiani , Andrew Davidson , Ulrich Meyer , John D. Owens

In this paper, we present novel randomized algorithms for solving saddle point problems whose dual feasible region is given by the direct product of many convex sets. Our algorithms can achieve an ${\cal O}(1/N)$ and ${\cal O}(1/N^2)$ rate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-16 Cong Dang , Guanghui Lan

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