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We consider the problem of learning an unknown partition of an $n$ element universe using rank queries. Such queries take as input a subset of the universe and return the number of parts of the partition it intersects. We give a simple…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Deeparnab Chakrabarty , Hang Liao

This paper develops new combinatorial approaches to analyze and compute special set partitions, called complementary set partitions, which are fundamental in the study of generalized cumulants. Moving away from traditional graph-based and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Elvira Di Nardo , Giuseppe Guarino

The paper presents complexity results and performance guaranties for a family of approximation algorithms for an optimisation problem arising in software testing and manufacturing. The problem is formulated as a partitioning of a set where…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Yakov Zinder , Bertrand M. T. Lin , Joanna Berlińska

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

This article describes a geometric partitioning software that can be used for quick computation of data partitions on many-core HPC machines. It is most suited for dynamic applications with load distributions that vary with time.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Aparna Sasidharan

Motivated by a historical combinatorial problem that resembles the well-known Josephus problem, we investigate circular partition algorithms and formulate problems in deterministic finite automata with practical algorithms. The historical…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Omid Khormali , Ghaya Mtimet , Nuh Aydin

To minimize data movement, state-of-the-art parallel sorting algorithms use techniques based on sampling and histogramming to partition keys prior to redistribution. Sampling enables partitioning to be done using a representative subset of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Vipul Harsh , Laxmikant Kale , Edgar Solomonik

Enumerating matchings is a classical problem in the field of enumeration algorithms. There are polynomial-delay enumeration algorithms for several settings, such as enumerating perfect matchings, maximal matchings, and (weighted) matchings…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Yasuaki Kobayashi , Kazuhiro Kurita , Kunihiro Wasa

We prove a lemma that is useful to get upper bounds for the number of partitions without a given subsum. From this we can deduce an improved upper bound for the number of sets represented by the (unrestricted or into unequal parts)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-11-07 Jean-Christophe Aval

Due to the significant increase in the size of spatial data, it is essential to use distributed parallel processing systems to efficiently analyze spatial data. In this paper, we first study learned spatial data partitioning, which…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Keizo Hori , Yuya Sasaki , Daichi Amagata , Yuki Murosaki , Makoto Onizuka

In a series of recent works, we have generalised the consistency results in the stochastic block model literature to the case of uniform and non-uniform hypergraphs. The present paper continues the same line of study, where we focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-18 Debarghya Ghoshdastidar , Ambedkar Dukkipati

The problem of ranking can be described as follows. We have a set of combinatorial objects $S$, such as, say, the k-subsets of n things, and we can imagine that they have been arranged in some list, say lexicographically, and we want to…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Boris Ryabko

Distributed computing excels at processing large scale data, but the communication cost for synchronizing the shared parameters may slow down the overall performance. Fortunately, the interactions between parameter and data in many problems…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Mu Li , Dave G. Andersen , Alexander J. Smola

Many algorithms have been developed for enumerating various combinatorial objects in time exponentially less than the number of objects. Two common classes of algorithms are dynamic programming and the transfer matrix method. This paper…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-16 Andrew R. Conway

A popular approach in combinatorial optimization is to model problems as integer linear programs. Ideally, the relaxed linear program would have only integer solutions, which happens for instance when the constraint matrix is totally…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-09-29 Christoph Durr , Mathilde Hurand

Subgraph enumeration problems ask to output all subgraphs of an input graph that belongs to the specified graph class or satisfy the given constraint. These problems have been widely studied in theoretical computer science. As far, many…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Kunihiro Wasa , Takeaki Uno

Many signal processing problems can be solved by maximizing the fitness of a segmented model over all possible partitions of the data interval. This letter describes a simple but powerful algorithm that searches the exponentially large…

The aim of the paper is to examine the computational complexity and algorithmics of enumeration, the task to output all solutions of a given problem, from the point of view of parameterized complexity. First we define formally different…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-06-11 Nadia Creignou , Arne Meier , Julian-Steffen Müller , Johannes Schmidt , Heribert Vollmer

A method of embedding partially ordered sets into linear spaces is presented. The problem of finding all orthocomplementations in a finite lattice is reduced to a linear programming problem.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 George Parfionov , Roman Zapatrin

We present an amelioration of current known algorithms for optimal spectral partitioning problems. The idea is to use the advantage of a representation using density functions while decreasing the computational time. This is done by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-25 Beniamin Bogosel