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There is a growing body of work on sorting and selection in models other than the unit-cost comparison model. This work is the first treatment of a natural stochastic variant of the problem where the cost of comparing two elements is a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-10-02 Stanislav Angelov , Keshav Kunal , Andrew McGregor

We introduce and analyse a new, extremely simple, randomised sorting algorithm: - choose a pair of indices $\{i, j\}$ according to some distribution $q$; - sort the elements in positions $i$ and $j$ of the array in ascending order. Choosing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Sam Olesker-Taylor

The sorting operation is one of the most commonly used building blocks in computer programming. In machine learning, it is often used for robust statistics. However, seen as a function, it is piecewise linear and as a result includes many…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-01 Mathieu Blondel , Olivier Teboul , Quentin Berthet , Josip Djolonga

Similarity functions measure how comparable pairs of elements are, and play a key role in a wide variety of applications, e.g., notions of Individual Fairness abiding by the seminal paradigm of Dwork et al., as well as Clustering problems.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Leonidas Tsepenekas , Ivan Brugere , Freddy Lecue , Daniele Magazzeni

Type-free systems of logic are designed to consistently handle significant instances of self-reference. Some consistent type-free systems also have the feature of allowing the sort of general abstraction or comprehension principle that…

Logic · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Wayne Aitken , Jeffrey A. Barrett

In this paper we will present a general agglomeration law for sorting networks. Agglomeration is a common technique when designing parallel programmes to control the granularity of the computation thereby finding a better fit between the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-01-04 Lukas Immanuel Schiller

We consider anti-unification for simply typed lambda terms in associative, commutative, and associative-commutative theories and develop a sound and complete algorithm which takes two lambda terms and computes their generalizations in the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-08-02 David M. Cerna , Temur Kutsia

Recursive coalgebras provide an elegant categorical tool for modelling recursive algorithms and analysing their termination and correctness. By considering coalgebras over categories of suitably indexed families, the correctness of the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Cass Alexandru , Henning Urbat , Thorsten Wißmann

This short paper presents saturation-based algorithms for homogenization and elimination. This algorithm can compute elimination ideals by using syzygies and ideal membership test, hence it works with any} monomial order, in particular…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2020-07-09 Mohamed Barakat , Markus Lange-Hegermann , Sebastian Posur

Human decision-makers often receive assistance from data-driven algorithmic systems that provide a score for evaluating objects, including individuals. The scores are generated by a function (mechanism) that takes a set of features as input…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Abolfazl Asudeh , H. V. Jagadish

In `free word order' languages, every sentence is embedded in its specific context. Among others, the order of constituents is determined by the categories `theme', `rheme' and `contrastive focus'. This paper shows how to recognise and to…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Ralf Steinberger

We consider the problem of sorting $n$ items, given the outcomes of $m$ pre-existing comparisons. We present a simple and natural deterministic algorithm that runs in $O(m + \log T)$ time and does $O(\log T)$ comparisons, where $T$ is the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Bernhard Haeupler , Richard Hladík , John Iacono , Vaclav Rozhon , Robert Tarjan , Jakub Tětek

A top-list is a possibly incomplete ranking of elements: only a subset of the elements are ranked, with all unranked elements tied for last. Top-list aggregation, a generalization of the well-known rank aggregation problem, takes as input a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Claire Mathieu , Simon Mauras

Proof search has been used to specify a wide range of computation systems. In order to build a framework for reasoning about such specifications, we make use of a sequent calculus involving induction and co-induction. These proof principles…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-10-01 Alwen Tiu , Alberto Momigliano

We use automated theorem provers to significantly shorten a formal development in higher order set theory. The development includes many standard theorems such as the fundamental theorem of arithmetic and irrationality of square root of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Chad E. Brown , Cezary Kaliszyk , Martin Suda , Josef Urban

This paper discusses about a sorting algorithm which uses the concept of buckets where each bucket represents a certain number of digits. A two dimensional data structure is used where one dimension represents buckets i. e; number of digits…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-06-10 Ankit Chadha , Rishikesh Misal , Tanaya Mokashi , Aman Chadha

The goal of this paper is to present two algorithms for solving systems of inclusion problems, with all component of the systems being a sum of two maximal monotone operators. The algorithms are variants of the forward-backward splitting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-28 R. Díaz Millán

Sorting is the task of ordering $n$ elements using pairwise comparisons. It is well known that $m=\Theta(n\log n)$ comparisons are both necessary and sufficient when the outcomes of the comparisons are observed with no noise. In this paper,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Ziao Wang , Nadim Ghaddar , Banghua Zhu , Lele Wang

The classical theory of free analysis generalizes the noncommutative (nc) polynomials and rational functions, easily providing such results as an nc analogue of the Jacobian conjecture. However, the classical theory misses out on important…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Julian Bushelli

We define and study a class of subshifts of finite type (SFTs) defined by a family of allowed patterns of the same shape where, for any contents of the shape minus a corner, the number of ways to fill in the corner is the same. The main…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-09-14 Ville Salo