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There are billions of lines of sequential code inside nowadays' software which do not benefit from the parallelism available in modern multicore architectures. Automatically parallelizing sequential code, to promote an efficient use of the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-04-13 Alcides Fonseca , Bruno Cabral , João Rafael , Ivo Correia

We describe an asynchronous parallel stochastic coordinate descent algorithm for minimizing smooth unconstrained or separably constrained functions. The method achieves a linear convergence rate on functions that satisfy an essential strong…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-11-12 Ji Liu , Stephen J. Wright , Christopher Ré , Victor Bittorf , Srikrishna Sridhar

We study the classical scheduling problem on parallel machines %with precedence constraints where the precedence graph has the bounded depth $h$. Our goal is to minimize the maximum completion time. We focus on developing approximation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Bin Fu , Yumei Huo , Hairong Zhao

Sorting is one of the most fundamental algorithms in computer science. Recently, Learned Sorts, which use machine learning to improve sorting speed, have attracted attention. While existing studies show that Learned Sort is empirically…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Atsuki Sato , Yusuke Matsui

Many real-life problems of practical importance -- spanning a wide range of applications from chip design to bioinformatics -- represent constraint satisfaction problems, where classical solvers have to rely on heuristic approximations due…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Recep Bugra Uludag , Ahmet Efe , Ismail Akturk , Ulya R Karpuzcu

In this paper we are proposing a new sorting algorithm, List Sort algorithm, is based on the dynamic memory allocation. In this research study we have also shown the comparison of various efficient sorting techniques with List sort. Due the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-10-30 Adarsh Kumar Verma , Prashant Kumar

We use exponential start time clustering to design faster and more work-efficient parallel graph algorithms involving distances. Previous algorithms usually rely on graph decomposition routines with strict restrictions on the diameters of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-25 Gary L. Miller , Richard Peng , Adrian Vladu , Shen Chen Xu

This paper addresses the problem of parallelizing computations to study non-linear dynamics in large networks of non-locally coupled oscillators using heterogeneous computing resources. The proposed approach can be applied to a variety of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-04 Oleksandr Sudakov , Volodymyr Maistrenko

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

Classical problems of sorting and searching assume an underlying linear ordering of the objects being compared. In this paper, we study a more general setting, in which some pairs of objects are incomparable. This generalization is relevant…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-07-12 Constantinos Daskalakis , Richard M. Karp , Elchanan Mossel , Samantha Riesenfeld , Elad Verbin

We investigate distributed memory parallel sorting algorithms that scale to the largest available machines and are robust with respect to input size and distribution of the input elements. The main outcome is that four sorting algorithms…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Michael Axtmann , Peter Sanders

This article introduces a new optimization method to improve mergesort's runtime complexity, when sorting sequences that have equal keys to $O(n log_2 k)$, where $k$ is the number of distinct keys in the sequence. When $k$ is constant, it…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Albert Tedja

Existing parallel algorithms for wavelet tree construction have a work complexity of $O(n\log\sigma)$. This paper presents parallel algorithms for the problem with improved work complexity. Our first algorithm is based on parallel integer…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Julian Shun

Recently, the problem of multitasking scheduling has attracted a lot of attention in the service industries where workers frequently perform multiple tasks by switching from one task to another. Hall, Leung and Li (Discrete Applied…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Bin Fu , Yumei Huo , Hairong Zhao

This paper studies the average complexity on the number of comparisons for sorting algorithms. Its information-theoretic lower bound is $n \lg n - 1.4427n + O(\log n)$. For many efficient algorithms, the first $n\lg n$ term is easy to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-03 Kazuo Iwama , Junichi Teruyama

Parallel computation enables multiple processors to execute different parts of a task simultaneously, improving processing speed and efficiency. In quantum computing, parallel gate implementation involves executing gates independently in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-20 Boris Arseniev

There have been extensive works dealing with genetic algorithms (GAs) for seeking optimal solutions of shop scheduling problems. Due to the NP hardness, the time cost is always heavy. With the development of high performance computing (HPC)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Jia Luo , Didier El Baz

Sparse suffix sorting is the problem of sorting $b=o(n)$ suffixes of a string of length $n$. Efficient sparse suffix sorting algorithms have existed for more than a decade. Despite the multitude of works and their justified claims for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Lorraine A. K. Ayad , Grigorios Loukides , Solon P. Pissis , Hilde Verbeek

We consider the problem of partial order production: arrange the elements of an unknown totally ordered set T into a target partially ordered set S, by comparing a minimum number of pairs in T. Special cases include sorting by comparisons,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-05-06 Jean Cardinal , Samuel Fiorini , Gwenaël Joret , Raphaël M. Jungers , J. Ian Munro

This paper presents the design and analysis of parallel approximation algorithms for facility-location problems, including $\NC$ and $\RNC$ algorithms for (metric) facility location, $k$-center, $k$-median, and $k$-means. These problems…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-06-11 Guy E. Blelloch , Kanat Tangwongsan