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We present two stable mergesort variants, "peeksort" and "powersort", that exploit existing runs and find nearly-optimal merging orders with practically negligible overhead. Previous methods either require substantial effort for determining…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-07 J. Ian Munro , Sebastian Wild

LearnedSort is a novel sorting algorithm that, unlike traditional methods, uses fast ML models to boost the sorting speed. The models learn to estimate the input's distribution and arrange the keys in sorted order by predicting their…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Ani Kristo , Kapil Vaidya , Tim Kraska

This paper introduces a novel and efficient partitioning technique for quicksort, specifically designed for real-world data with duplicate elements (50-year-old problem). The method is referred to as "equal quicksort" or "eqsort". Based on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Parviz Afereidoon

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

Various decision support systems are available that implement Data Mining and Data Warehousing techniques for diving into the sea of data for getting useful patterns of knowledge (pearls). Classification, regression, clustering, and many…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Mohammad Khalid Imam Rahmani

Many previous works in spike sorting study spike classification and compression independently. In this paper, a novel algorithm is proposed called MetaSort to address these two problems. To deal with compression, a novel adaptive level…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-10 Luca M. Meyer , Majid Zamani

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

The quest for efficient sorting is ongoing, and we will explore a graph-based stable sorting strategy, in particular employing comparison graphs. We use the topological sort to map the comparison graph to a linear domain, and we can…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Balaram Behera

This paper addresses the anytime sorting problem, aiming to develop algorithms providing tentative estimates of the sorted list at each execution step. Comparisons are treated as steps, and the Spearman's footrule metric evaluates…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Emma Caizergues , François Durand , Fabien Mathieu

Partitioning large machine learning models across distributed accelerator systems is a complex process, requiring a series of interdependent decisions that are further complicated by internal sharding ambiguities. Consequently, existing…

Sorting is a fundamental operation in various applications and a traditional research topic in computer science. Improving the performance of sorting operations can have a significant impact on many application domains. For high-performance…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Amir Hossein Jalilvand , Faeze S. Banitaba , Seyedeh Newsha Estiri , Sercan Aygun , M. Hassan Najafi

The dynamic scaling of distributed computations plays an important role in the utilization of elastic computational resources, such as the cloud. It enables the provisioning and de-provisioning of resources to match dynamic resource…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Masatoshi Hanai , Nikos Tziritas , Toyotaro Suzumura , Wentong Cai , Georgios Theodoropoulos

We present WiscSort, a new approach to high-performance concurrent sorting for existing and future byte-addressable storage (BAS) devices. WiscSort carefully reduces writes, exploits random reads by splitting keys and values during sorting,…

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 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 sorting in the evolving data model, introduced by [AKMU11], where the true total order changes while the sorting algorithm is processing the input. More precisely, each comparison operation of the algorithm is followed by a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-24 George Giakkoupis , Marcos Kiwi , Dimitrios Los

In this paper, we propose a useful replacement for quicksort-style utility functions. The replacement is called Symmetry Partition Sort, which has essentially the same principle as Proportion Extend Sort. The maximal difference between them…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-06-04 Jing-Chao Chen

In sorting literature, comparative statics for multidimensional assignment models with general output functions and input distributions is an important open question. We provide a complete theory of comparative statics for technological…

General Economics · Economics 2025-12-12 Job Boerma , Andrea Ottolini , Aleh Tsyvinski

In this paper we present a random shuffling scheme to apply with adaptive sorting algorithms. Adaptive sorting algorithms utilize the presortedness present in a given sequence. We have probabilistically increased the amount of presortedness…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Md. Enamul Karim , Abdun Naser Mahmood

Sorted data is usually easier to compress than unsorted permutations of the same data. This motivates a simple compression scheme: specify the sorted permutation of the data along with a representation of the sorted data compressed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-11-24 Oscar Stiffelman