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The element distinctness problem takes as input a list $I$ of $n$ values from a totally ordered universe and the goal is to decide whether $I$ contains any duplicates. It is a well-studied problem with a classical worst-case $\Omega(n \log…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Ivor van der Hoog , Eva Rotenberg , Daniel Rutschmann

We propose new sequential sorting operations by adapting techniques and methods used for designing parallel sorting algorithms. Although the norm is to parallelize a sequential algorithm to improve performance, we adapt a contrarian…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-09-01 Alexandros V Gerbessiotis

We consider the problem of finding \textit{semi-matching} in bipartite graphs which is also extensively studied under various names in the scheduling literature. We give faster algorithms for both weighted and unweighted case. For the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-06-15 Jittat Fakcharoenphol , Bundit Laekhanukit , Danupon Nanongkai

In \emph{Online Sorting}, an array of $n$ initially empty cells is given. At each time step $t$, an element $x_t \in [0,1]$ arrives and must be placed irrevocably into an empty cell without any knowledge of future arrivals. We aim to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Andreas Kalavas , Charalampos Platanos , Thanos Tolias

In \emph{Online Sorting}, an array of $n$ initially empty cells is given. At each time step $t$, an element $x_t \in [0,1]$ arrives and must be placed irrevocably into an empty cell without any knowledge of future arrivals. We aim to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Andreas Kalavas , Charalampos Platanos , Thanos Tolias

We study the online sorting problem, where $n$ real numbers arrive in an online fashion, and the algorithm must immediately place each number into an array of size $(1+\varepsilon) n$ before seeing the next number. After all $n$ numbers are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Jubayer Nirjhor , Nicole Wein

Given an undirected graph representing similarities between a set of items and an additive measure evaluating the items, we treat the position of a special subset of items in an ordinal ranking through a collection of combinatorial…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Samuel Boardman

Given $n$ elements, an integer $k$ and a parameter $\varepsilon$, we study to select an element with rank in $(k-n\varepsilon,k+n\varepsilon]$ using unreliable comparisons where the outcome of each comparison is incorrect independently with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Shengyu Huang , Chih-Hung Liu , Daniel Rutschman

This paper introduces a problem in which the state of a system needs to be determined through costly tests of its components by a limited number of testing units and before a given deadline. We also consider a closely related search problem…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Alessandro Agnetis , Ben Hermans , Roel Leus , Salim Rostami

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.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-09-24 A. Emre Cetin

We find large lower bounds for a certain family of algorithms, and prove that such bounds are limited only by natural computability arguments.

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-06-05 Miguel A. Lerma

We study the following rearrangement problem: Given $n$ words, rearrange and concatenate them so that the obtained string is lexicographically smallest (or largest, respectively). We show that this problem reduces to sorting the given words…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Ruixi Luo , Taikun Zhu , Kai Jin

In this paper, we consider the problem of choosing a minimum cost set of resources for executing a specified set of jobs. Each input job is an interval, determined by its start-time and end-time. Each resource is also an interval determined…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-10-11 Venkatesan Chakaravarthy , Arindam Pal , Sambuddha Roy , Yogish Sabharwal

We consider online algorithms for the $k$-server problem on trees. Chrobak and Larmore proposed a $k$-competitive algorithm for this problem that has the optimal competitive ratio. However, a naive implementation of their algorithm has…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Ruslan Kapralov , Kamil Khadiev , Joshua Mokut , Yixin Shen , Maxim Yagafarov

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

Sorting is a fundamental operation in various applications and a traditional research topic in computer science. Improving the performance of sorting operations can have a significant impact on many application domains. For high-performance…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Amir Hossein Jalilvand , Faeze S. Banitaba , Seyedeh Newsha Estiri , Sercan Aygun , M. Hassan Najafi

We propose an $O(N\cdot M)$ sorting algorithm by Machine Learning method, which shows a huge potential sorting big data. This sorting algorithm can be applied to parallel sorting and is suitable for GPU or TPU acceleration. Furthermore, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-16 Hanqing Zhao , Yuehan Luo

We consider the classical problem of sorting an input array containing $n$ elements, where each element is described with a $k$-bit comparison-key and a $w$-bit payload. A long-standing open problem is whether there exist $(k + w) \cdot o(n…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Gilad Asharov , Wei-Kai Lin , Elaine Shi

We consider the problem of finding the minimum element in a list of length $N$ using a noisy comparator. The noise is modelled as follows: given two elements to compare, if the values of the elements differ by at least $\alpha$ by some…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-31 Yihui Quek , Clement Canonne , Patrick Rebentrost

This article introduces an adaptive sorting algorithm that can relocate elements accurately by substituting their values into a function which we name it the guessing function. We focus on building this function which is the mapping…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Sheng Bao , De-Shun Zheng