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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…
This paper presents a novel meta algorithm, Partition-Merge (PM), which takes existing centralized algorithms for graph computation and makes them distributed and faster. In a nutshell, PM divides the graph into small subgraphs using our…
Objective: Spike sorting is a fundamental step in analysing extracellular recordings, enabling the isolation of single-neuron activity. However, it remains a challenging problem because extracellular traces mix overlapping spikes from…
We improve on GenASM, a recent algorithm for genomic sequence alignment, by significantly reducing its memory footprint and bandwidth requirement. Our algorithmic improvements reduce the memory footprint by 24$\times$ and the number of…
With the development of cheap image sensors, the amount of available image data have increased enormously, and the possibility of using crowdsourced collection methods has emerged. This calls for development of ways to handle all these…
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,…
Many parallel algorithms which solve basic problems in computer science use auxiliary space linear in the input to facilitate conflict-free computation. There has been significant work on improving these parallel algorithms to be in-place,…
We present Onesweep, a least-significant digit (LSD) radix sorting algorithm for large GPU sorting problems residing in global memory. Our parallel algorithm employs a method of single-pass prefix sum that only requires ~2n global…
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…
Sorting is at the core of many database operations, such as index creation, sort-merge joins, and user-requested output sorting. As GPUs are emerging as a promising platform to accelerate various operations, sorting on GPUs becomes a viable…
This note makes an observation that significantly simplifies a number of previous parallel, two-way merge algorithms based on binary search and sequential merge in parallel. First, it is shown that the additional merge step of distinguished…
Graph matching aims to find correspondences between two graphs. This paper integrates several well-known graph matching algorithms into a framework: the constrained gradient method. The primary difference among these algorithms lies in…
One approach for reducing run time and improving efficiency of machine learning is to reduce the convergence rate of the optimization algorithm used. Shuffling is an algorithm technique that is widely used in machine learning, but it only…
We give a more space-efficient implementation of adaptive mergesort: Virtual-Memory Powersort. Using internal buffering techniques, we significantly reduce the memory consumption of the algorithm; specifically, for sorting $n$ objects the…
In this paper we develop optimal algorithms in the binary-forking model for a variety of fundamental problems, including sorting, semisorting, list ranking, tree contraction, range minima, and ordered set union, intersection and difference.…
Motivation: We introduce SneakySnake, a highly parallel and highly accurate pre-alignment filter that remarkably reduces the need for computationally costly sequence alignment. The key idea of SneakySnake is to reduce the approximate string…
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…
Read-only memory model is a classical model of computation to study time-space tradeoffs of algorithms. One of the classical results on the ROM model is that any sorting algorithm that uses O(s) words of extra space requires $\Omega…
We consider the fundamental problem of internally sorting a sequence of $n$ elements. In its best theoretical setting QuickMergesort, a combination Quicksort with Mergesort with a Median-of-$\sqrt{n}$ pivot selection, requires at most $n…
We study the impact of merging routines in merge-based sorting algorithms. More precisely, we focus on the galloping routine that TimSort uses to merge monotonic sub-arrays, hereafter called runs, and on the impact on the number of element…