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Preference orderings are orderings of a set of items according to the preferences (of judges). Such orderings arise in a variety of domains, including group decision making, consumer marketing, voting and machine learning. Measuring the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-10-17 Zhiwei Lin , Hui Wang , Cees H. Elzinga

Sorting networks are oblivious sorting algorithms with many practical applications and rich theoretical properties. Propositional encodings of sorting networks are a key tool for proving concrete bounds on the minimum number of comparators…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-17 José A. R. Fonollosa

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

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

Sorting is an essential operation in computer science with direct consequences on the performance of large scale data systems, real-time systems, and embedded computation. However, no sorting algorithm is optimal under all distributions of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Shrinivass Arunachalam Balasubramanian

In the age of big data, sorting is an indispensable operation for DBMSes and similar systems. Having data sorted can help produce query plans with significantly lower run times. It also can provide other benefits like having non-blocking…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Michael Polyntsov , Valentin Grigorev , Kirill Smirnov , George Chernishev

In-place associative integer sorting technique was proposed for integer lists which requires only constant amount of additional memory replacing bucket sort, distribution counting sort and address calculation sort family of algorithms. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-09-18 A. Emre Cetin

The analyses of many algorithms and data structures (such as digital search trees) for searching and sorting are based on the representation of the keys involved as bit strings and so count the number of bit comparisons. On the other hand,…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-02-14 James Allen Fill , Svante Janson

Large-scale supervised classification algorithms, especially those based on deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs), require vast amounts of training data to achieve state-of-the-art performance. Decreasing this data requirement would…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-15 Maya Kabkab , Azadeh Alavi , Rama Chellappa

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

Now a days, data mining and knowledge discovery methods are applied to a variety of enterprise and engineering disciplines to uncover interesting patterns from databases. The study of Sequential patterns is an important data mining problem…

Databases · Computer Science 2009-06-24 Jigyasa Bisaria , Namita Shrivastava , K. R. Pardasani

This paper studies properties of the back end of a sorting network and illustrates the utility of these in the search for networks of optimal size or depth. All previous works focus on properties of the front end of networks and on how to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-30 Michael Codish , Luís Cruz-Filipe , Peter Schneider-Kamp

Modern pattern recognition tasks use complex algorithms that take advantage of large datasets to make more accurate predictions than traditional algorithms such as decision trees or k-nearest-neighbor better suited to describe simple…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-14 AGaurav Arwade , Sigurdur Olafsson

One of the basic tasks for Bayesian networks (BNs) is that of learning a network structure from data. The BN-learning problem is NP-hard, so the standard solution is heuristic search. Many approaches have been proposed for this task, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-09 Marc Teyssier , Daphne Koller

The problem of selecting small groups of itemsets that represent the data well has recently gained a lot of attention. We approach the problem by searching for the itemsets that compress the data efficiently. As a compression technique we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-08 Nikolaj Tatti , Jilles Vreeken

The objective behind the Twin Sort technique is to sort the list of unordered data elements efficiently and to allow efficient and simple arrangement of data elements within the data structure with optimization of comparisons and iterations…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Veeresh D , Thimmaraju S. N , Ravish G. K

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

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

In order to speed-up classification models when facing a large number of categories, one usual approach consists in organizing the categories in a particular structure, this structure being then used as a way to speed-up the prediction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-11-26 Aurélia Léon , Ludovic Denoyer

The emerging field of Diverse Intelligence seeks to identify, formalize, and understand commonalities in behavioral competencies across a wide range of implementations. Especially interesting are simple systems that provide unexpected…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Taining Zhang , Adam Goldstein , Michael Levin