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Sorting and hashing are two completely different concepts in computer science, and appear mutually exclusive to one another. Hashing is a search method using the data as a key to map to the location within memory, and is used for rapid…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 William F. Gilreath

An archetypal problem discussed in computer science is the problem of searching for a given number in a given set of numbers. Other than sequential search, the classic solution is to sort the list of numbers and then apply binary search.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Philon Nguyen

The \emph{generalized sorting problem} is a restricted version of standard comparison sorting where we wish to sort $n$ elements but only a subset of pairs are allowed to be compared. Formally, there is some known graph $G = (V, E)$ on the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-16 William Kuszmaul , Shyam Narayanan

Over the past 30 years numerous algorithms have been designed for symmetry breaking problems in the LOCAL model, such as maximal matching, MIS, vertex coloring, and edge-coloring. For most problems the best randomized algorithm is at least…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-04-07 Yi-Jun Chang , Tsvi Kopelowitz , Seth Pettie

This paper proposes new derivations of three well-known sorting algorithms, in their functional formulation. The approach we use is based on three main ingredients: first, the algorithms are derived from a simpler algorithm, i.e. the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-02-27 José Bacelar Almeida , Jorge Sousa Pinto

Motivated by settings such as medical treatments or aircraft maintenance, we consider a scheduling problem with jobs that consist of two operations, a test and a processing part. The time required to execute the test is known in advance…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Konstantinos Dogeas , Thomas Erlebach , Ya-Chun Liang

We consider the basic problem of learning an unknown partition of $n$ elements into at most $k$ sets using simple queries that reveal information about a small subset of elements. Our starting point is the well-studied pairwise same-set…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Hadley Black , Arya Mazumdar , Barna Saha

We revisit the selection problem, namely that of computing the $i$th order statistic of $n$ given elements, in particular the classic deterministic algorithm by grouping and partition due to Blum, Floyd, Pratt, Rivest, and Tarjan (1973).…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Ke Chen , Adrian Dumitrescu

We present the first optimal randomized algorithm for constructing the order-$k$ Voronoi diagram of $n$ points in two dimensions. The expected running time is $O(n\log n + nk)$, which improves the previous, two-decades-old result of Ramos…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Timothy M. Chan , Pingan Cheng , Da Wei Zheng

We present the first in-place algorithm for sorting an array of size n that performs, in the worst case, at most O(n log n) element comparisons and O(n) element transports. This solves a long-standing open problem, stated explicitly, e.g.,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Gianni Franceschini , Viliam Geffert

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

Traditionally, the problem of apportioning the seats of a legislative body has been viewed as a one-shot process with no dynamic considerations. While this approach is reasonable for some settings, dynamic aspects play an important role in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Javier Cembrano , Jose Correa , Svenja M. Griesbach , Victor Verdugo

In the online matching on the line problem, the task is to match a set of requests $R$ online to a given set of servers $S$. The distance metric between any two points in $R\,\cup\, S$ is a line metric and the objective for the online…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-12-20 Antonios Antoniadis , Carsten Fischer , Andreas Tönnis

We introduce a new approach to develop stochastic optimization algorithms for a class of stochastic composite and possibly nonconvex optimization problems. The main idea is to combine two stochastic estimators to create a new hybrid one. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Quoc Tran-Dinh , Nhan H. Pham , Dzung T. Phan , Lam M. Nguyen

We consider a multi-pivot QuickSort algorithm using $K\in\mathbb{N}$ pivot elements to partition a nonsorted list into $K+1$ sublists in order to proceed recursively on these sublists. For the partitioning stage, various strategies are in…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Cecilia Holmgren , Jasper Ischebeck , Daniel Krenn , Florian Lesny , Ralph Neininger

We consider two models of computation: centralized local algorithms and local distributed algorithms. Algorithms in one model are adapted to the other model to obtain improved algorithms. Distributed vertex coloring is employed to design…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-11-12 Guy Even , Moti Medina , Dana Ron

We formalize a new paradigm for optimality of algorithms, that generalizes worst-case optimality based only on input-size to problem-dependent parameters including implicit ones. We re-visit some existing sorting algorithms from this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Sandeep Sen

Sorting an array is a fundamental routine in machine learning, one that is used to compute rank-based statistics, cumulative distribution functions (CDFs), quantiles, or to select closest neighbors and labels. The sorting function is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Marco Cuturi , Olivier Teboul , Jean-Philippe Vert

Sorting is one of the most used and well investigated algorithmic problem [1]. Traditional postulation supposes the sorting data archived, and the elementary operation as comparisons of two numbers. In a view of appearance of new processors…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-07-22 Hakob Aslanyan

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