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Shiva Kintali
on May 19, 2013 | Updated Dec. 6, 2017
Randomized QuickSort
Consider Randomized-Quicksort operating on a sequence of \(n\) distinct input numbers. Prove that the expected running time of Randomized-Quicksort is \(O(n{\log}n)\) Prove that for any constant …
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Algorithms
Randomized Algorithms
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Shiva Kintali
on June 10, 2012 | Updated Dec. 6, 2017
Card shuffling using pairwise-swapping
You are given a deck of \(n\) cards. In each step you select two cards independently and uniformly at random and swap their positions. This defines a random walk on the set of all permutations of the …
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Randomized Algorithms
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Shiva Kintali
on July 21, 2012 | Updated Dec. 6, 2017
Linear time shuffling
Consider the following algorithm to shuffle an array \(A\) of \(n\) elements (with indices from \(0\) to \(n-1\) : for \(i = 0\) to \(n - 1\) Let j be a random integer between 0 and i exchange A…
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Randomized Algorithms
linear time algorithms
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Undergraduate
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Shiva Kintali
on May 19, 2013 | Updated Dec. 6, 2017
Generating random numbers
You are given a fair coin that comes up with heads (or tails) with probability 1/2. Using this fair coin, implement a random number generator \(Random(a,b)\) that returns an integer between \(a\) and …
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Randomized Algorithms
generator
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Shiva Kintali
on June 6, 2012 | Updated Dec. 6, 2017
Reservoir Sampling
You are watching a stream of packets go by one at a time, and want to take a random sample of \(k\) distinct packets from the stream. You only have room to save \(k\) packets at any one time. You do…
Computer Science
Randomized Algorithms
sampling
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