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In this paper, we introduce and prove QR Sort, a novel non-comparative integer sorting algorithm. This algorithm uses principles derived from the Quotient-Remainder Theorem and Counting Sort subroutines to sort input sequences stably. QR…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Randolph T. Bushman , Tanya M. Tebcherani , Alhassan S. Yasin

Priority queues are used in a wide range of applications, including prioritized online scheduling, discrete event simulation, and greedy algorithms. In parallel settings, classical priority queues often become a severe bottleneck, resulting…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Marvin Williams , Peter Sanders

A collection of $k$ mobile agents is arbitrarily deployed in the edges of a directed torus network where agents perpetually move to the successor edge. Each node has a switch that allows one agent of the two incoming edges to pass to its…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Oscar Morales-Ponce , Burkhard Englert , Mehrdad Aliasgari

A long-standing open question in the algorithms and complexity literature is whether there exist sorting circuits of size $o(n \log n)$. A recent work by Asharov, Lin, and Shi (SODA'21) showed that if the elements to be sorted have short…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Wei-Kai Lin , Elaine Shi

In this paper, we study the one-shot and lifelong versions of the Target Assignment and Path Finding problem in automated sortation centers, where each agent needs to constantly assign itself a sorting station, move to its assigned station…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Ngai Meng Kou , Cheng Peng , Hang Ma , T. K. Satish Kumar , Sven Koenig

We investigate the complexity of sorting in the model of sequential quantum circuits. While it is known that in general a quantum algorithm based on comparisons alone cannot outperform classical sorting algorithms by more than a constant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hartmut Klauck

In many data analysis pipelines, a basic and time-consuming process is to produce join results and feed them into downstream tasks. Numerous enumeration algorithms have been developed for this purpose. To be a statistically meaningful…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Pengyu Chen , Zizheng Guo , Jianwei Yang , Dongjing Miao

Sequence Alignment is the process of aligning biological sequences in order to identify similarities between multiple sequences. In this paper, a Quantum Algorithm for finding the optimal alignment between DNA sequences has been…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Md. Rabiul Islam Khan , Shadman Shahriar , Shaikh Farhan Rafid

The problem of finding aperiodic low auto-correlation binary sequences (LABS) presents a significant computational challenge, particularly as the sequence length increases. Such sequences have important applications in communication…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Blaž Pšeničnik , Rene Mlinarič , Janez Brest , Borko Bošković

Sorting database tables before compressing them improves the compression rate. Can we do better than the lexicographical order? For minimizing the number of runs in a run-length encoding compression scheme, the best approaches to…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-02-04 Daniel Lemire , Owen Kaser , Eduardo Gutarra

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

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning approach that enables multiple local clients and a central server to collaboratively train a model while keeping the data on their own devices. First-order methods, particularly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Xue Feng , M. Paul Laiu , Thomas Strohmer

In this paper we present a deterministic parallel algorithm solving the multiple selection problem in congested clique model. In this problem for given set of elements S and a set of ranks $K = \{k_1 , k_2 , ..., k_r \}$ we are asking for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-21 Krzysztof Nowicki

When allocating indivisible items to agents, it is known that the only strategyproof mechanisms that satisfy a set of rather mild conditions are constrained serial dictatorships: given a fixed order over agents, at each step the designated…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Sylvain Bouveret , Hugo Gilbert , Jérôme Lang , Guillaume Méroué

In-place associative integer sorting technique was developed, improved and specialized for distinct integers. The technique is suitable for integer sorting. Hence, given a list S of n integers S[0...n-1], the technique sorts the integers in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-10-08 A. Emre Cetin

We present new parallel sorting networks for $17$ to $20$ inputs. For $17, 19,$ and $20$ inputs these new networks are faster (i.e., they require less computation steps) than the previously known best networks. Therefore, we improve upon…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-10-13 Thorsten Ehlers , Mike Müller

In this paper, we consider two formulations for Linear Matrix Inequalities (LMIs) under Slater type constraint qualification assumption, namely, SDP smooth and non-smooth formulations. We also propose two first-order linearly convergent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-09-10 Cong D. Dang , Guanghui Lan

In a totally ordered set the notion of sorting a finite sequence is defined through a suitable permutation of the sequence's indices. In this paper we prove a simple formula that explicitly describes how the elements of a sequence are…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-06-03 Jens Gerlach

This paper considers single-machine scheduling problems in which a given solution, i.e. an ordered set of jobs, has to be improved as much as possible by re-sequencing the jobs. The need for rescheduling may arise in different contexts,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Gaia Nicosia , Andrea Pacifici , Ulrich Pferschy , Julia Resch , Giovanni Righini

Priority queues are fundamental abstract data structures, often used to manage limited resources in parallel programming. Several proposed parallel priority queue implementations are based on skiplists, harnessing the potential for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-08-06 Irina Calciu , Hammurabi Mendes , Maurice Herlihy