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With the advent of automatic vectorization tools (e.g., JAX's $\texttt{vmap}$), writing multi-chain MCMC algorithms is often now as simple as invoking those tools on single-chain code. Whilst convenient, for various MCMC algorithms this…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Hugh Dance , Pierre Glaser , Peter Orbanz , Ryan Adams

Sorting is fundamental and ubiquitous in modern computing systems. Hardware sorting systems are built based on comparison operations with Von Neumann architecture, but their performance are limited by the bandwidth between memory and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Lianfeng Yu , Yaoyu Tao , Teng Zhang , Zeyu Wang , Xile Wang , Zelun Pan , Bowen Wang , Zhaokun Jing , Jiaxin Liu , Yuqi Li , Yihang Zhu , Bonan Yan , Yuchao Yang

We consider the problem of sampling $n$ numbers from the range $\{1,\ldots,N\}$ without replacement on modern architectures. The main result is a simple divide-and-conquer scheme that makes sequential algorithms more cache efficient and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Peter Sanders , Sebastian Lamm , Lorenz Hübschle-Schneider , Emanuel Schrade , Carsten Dachsbacher

k-nearest neighbor graph is a fundamental data structure in many disciplines such as information retrieval, data-mining, pattern recognition, and machine learning, etc. In the literature, considerable research has been focusing on how to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Wan-Lei Zhao , Hui Wang , Peng-Cheng Lin , Chong-Wah Ngo

Sorting is one of the most fundamental problems in the field of computer science. With the rapid development of manycore processors, it shows great importance to design efficient parallel sort algorithm on manycore architecture. This paper…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Tianyi Yu , Wei Li

The two most prominent solutions for the sorting problem are Quicksort and Mergesort. While Quicksort is very fast on average, Mergesort additionally gives worst-case guarantees, but needs extra space for a linear number of elements.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Stefan Edelkamp , Armin Weiß

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…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-09-25 Vincent Blondel , Kyomin Jung , Pushmeet Kohli , Devavrat Shah

We discuss how string sorting algorithms can be parallelized on modern multi-core shared memory machines. As a synthesis of the best sequential string sorting algorithms and successful parallel sorting algorithms for atomic objects, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-05-07 Timo Bingmann , Peter Sanders

This article describes algorithms for the hybrid parallelization and SIMD vectorization of molecular dynamics simulations with short-range forces. The parallelization method combines domain decomposition with a thread-based parallelization…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-13 Chris M. Mangiardi , Ralf Meyer

Nearest Neighbor Search (NNS) has recently drawn a rapid increase of interest due to its core role in managing high-dimensional vector data in data science and AI applications. The interest is fueled by the success of neural embedding,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Zhen Peng , Minjia Zhang , Kai Li , Ruoming Jin , Bin Ren

The approximate minimum degree algorithm is widely used before numerical factorization to reduce fill-in for sparse matrices. While considerable attention has been given to the numerical factorization process, less focus has been placed on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Yen-Hsiang Chang , Aydın Buluç , James Demmel

Sorting is a fundamental and well studied problem that has been studied extensively. Sorting plays an important role in the area of databases, as many queries can be served much faster if the relations are first sorted. One of the most…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Yamit Barshatz-Schneor , Roy Friedman

This paper proposes a special-purpose system to achieve high-accuracy and high-efficiency machine learning (ML) molecular dynamics (MD) calculations. The system consists of field programmable gate array (FPGA) and application specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Zhuoying Zhao , Ziling Tan , Pinghui Mo , Xiaonan Wang , Dan Zhao , Xin Zhang , Ming Tao , Jie Liu

Resource constrained project scheduling is an important combinatorial optimisation problem with many practical applications. With complex requirements such as precedence constraints, limited resources, and finance-based objectives, finding…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Dhananjay R. Thiruvady , Su Nguyen , Christian Blum , Andreas T. Ernst

Sorting is a fundamental operation across numerous computational domains. Traditionally, this process involves transferring data from main memory to a processing unit for sorting, followed by writing the sorted data back to memory. This…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Narendra Singh Dhakad , Santosh Kumar Vishvakarma

We introduce a parallelizable simplification of Neural Turing Machine (NTM), referred to as P-NTM, which redesigns the core operations of the original architecture to enable efficient scan-based parallel execution. We evaluate the proposed…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Gabriel Faria , Arnaldo Candido Junior

Merge trees are a valuable tool in the scientific visualization of scalar fields; however, current methods for merge tree comparisons are computationally expensive, primarily due to the exhaustive matching between tree nodes. To address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Yu Qin , Brittany Terese Fasy , Carola Wenk , Brian Summa

Applications of Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) are promising for embedded systems with hard constraints on computing power. Contrary to conventional neural networks with the floating-point datatype, BNNs use binarized weights and activations…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Mahdi Zahedi , Taha Shahroodi , Stephan Wong , Said Hamdioui

Low-overhead visual place recognition (VPR) is a highly active research topic. Mobile robotics applications often operate under low-end hardware, and even more hardware capable systems can still benefit from freeing up onboard system…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Bruno Arcanjo , Bruno Ferrarini , Michael Milford , Klaus D. McDonald-Maier , Shoaib Ehsan

The Log Structured Merge Trees (LSM-tree) based key-value stores are widely used in many storage systems to support a variety of operations such as updates, point reads, and range reads. Traditionally, LSM-tree's merge policy organizes data…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Fuheng Zhao , Zach Miller , Leron Reznikov , Divyakant Agrawal , Amr El Abbadi