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Sundararajan and Chakraborty (2007) introduced a new sorting algorithm by modifying the fast and popular Quick sort and removing the interchanges. In a subsequent empirical study, Sourabh, Sundararajan and Chakraborty (2007) demonstrated…

Computation · Statistics 2012-02-28 Prashant Kumar , Anchala Kumari , Soubhik Chakraborty

Sorting is an essential operation in computer science with direct consequences on the performance of large scale data systems, real-time systems, and embedded computation. However, no sorting algorithm is optimal under all distributions of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Shrinivass Arunachalam Balasubramanian

Given a sequence of $n$ numbers and $k$ parallel First-in-First-Out (FIFO) queues, how close can one bring the sequence to sorted order? It is known that $k$ queues suffice to sort the sequence if the Longest Decreasing Subsequence (LDS) of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Andreas Karrenbauer , Kurt Mehlhorn , Pranabendu Misra , Paolo Luigi Rinaldi , Anna Twelsiek , Alireza Haqi , Siavash Rahimi Shateranloo

We present scalable parallel algorithms with sublinear per-processor communication volume and low latency for several fundamental problems related to finding the most relevant elements in a set, for various notions of relevance: We begin…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-10-20 Lorenz Hübschle-Schneider , Peter Sanders , Ingo Müller

One important tool is the optimal clustering of data into useful categories. Dividing similar objects into a smaller number of clusters is of importance in many applications. These include search engines, monitoring of academic performance,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-21 Gavriel Yarmish , Philip Listowsky , Simon Dexter

Sorting is one of the most basic algorithms, and developing highly parallel sorting programs is becoming increasingly important in high-performance computing because the number of CPU cores per node in modern supercomputers tends to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Tomoyuki Tokuue , Tomoaki Ishiyama

Mergesort is one of the few efficient sorting algorithms and, despite being the oldest one, often still the method of choice today. In contrast to some alternative algorithms, it always runs efficiently using O(n log n) element comparisons…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Christian Siebert

We introduce a new sorting algorithm that is the combination of ML-enhanced sorting with the In-place Super Scalar Sample Sort (IPS4o). The main contribution of our work is to achieve parallel ML-enhanced sorting, as previous algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Ivan Carvalho

We study the space requirements of a sorting algorithm where only items that at the end will be adjacent are kept together. This is equivalent to the following combinatorial problem: Consider a string of fixed length n that starts as a…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Svante Janson

Many production-grade algorithms benefit from combining an asymptotically efficient algorithm for solving big problem instances, by splitting them into smaller ones, and an asymptotically inefficient algorithm with a very small…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-04-14 Margarita Markina , Maxim Buzdalov

The ordered allocation sampler is a Gibbs sampler designed to explore the posterior distribution in nonparametric mixture models. It encompasses both infinite mixtures and finite mixtures with random number of components, and it has be…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-16 Maria F. Gil-Leyva , Fidel Selva , Pierpaolo De Blasi

Most previous studies of the sorting algorithm QuickSort have used the number of key comparisons as a measure of the cost of executing the algorithm. Here we suppose that the n independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) keys are each…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-03-14 James Allen Fill

We engineer algorithms for sorting huge data sets on massively parallel machines. The algorithms are based on the multiway merging paradigm. We first outline an algorithm whose I/O requirement is close to a lower bound. Thus, in contrast to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-10-15 Mirko Rahn , Peter Sanders , Johannes Singler

The aim of the paper is to introduce general techniques in order to optimize the parallel execution time of sorting on a distributed architectures with processors of various speeds. Such an application requires a partitioning step. For…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Christophe Cérin , Jean-Christophe Dubacq , Jean-Louis Roch , the SafeScale Collaboration

We study parallel comparison-based algorithms for finding all equivalence classes of a set of $n$ elements, where sorting according to some total order is not possible. Such scenarios arise, for example, in applications, such as in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-05-13 William E. Devanny , Michael T. Goodrich , Kristopher Jetviroj

In this paper we present TSSort, a probabilistic, noise resistant, quickly converging comparison sort algorithm based on Microsoft TrueSkill. The algorithm combines TrueSkill's updating rules with a newly developed next item pair selection…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-17 Jörn Hees , Benjamin Adrian , Ralf Biedert , Thomas Roth-Berghofer , Andreas Dengel

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

A new algorithm, Guidesort, for sorting in the uniprocessor variant of the parallel disk model (PDM) of Vitter and Shriver is presented. The algorithm is deterministic and executes a number of (parallel) I/O operations that comes within a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Torben Hagerup

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

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. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-09-18 A. Emre Cetin