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Binary Search Trees of Permuton Samples

Authors Benoît Corsini, Victor Dubach , Valentin Féray

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  • Mathematics of computing → Trees
  • Mathematics of computing → Probabilistic algorithms
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  • Binary search trees
  • random permutations
  • permutons

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Abstract

Binary search trees (BST) are a popular type of structure when dealing with ordered data. They allow efficient access and modification of data, with their height corresponding to the worst retrieval time. From a probabilistic point of view, BSTs associated with data arriving in a uniform random order are well understood, but less is known when the input is a non-uniform permutation.
We consider here the case where the input comes from i.i.d. random points in the plane with law μ, a model which we refer to as a permuton sample. Our results show that the asymptotic proportion of nodes in each subtree only depends on the behavior of the measure μ at its left boundary, while the height of the BST has a universal asymptotic behavior for a large family of measures μ. Our approach involves a mix of combinatorial and probabilistic tools, namely combinatorial properties of binary search trees, coupling arguments, and deviation estimates.

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Benoît Corsini, Victor Dubach, and Valentin Féray. Binary Search Trees of Permuton Samples. In 35th International Conference on Probabilistic, Combinatorial and Asymptotic Methods for the Analysis of Algorithms (AofA 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 302, pp. 21:1-21:13, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.AofA.2024.21

Author Details

Benoît Corsini
  • Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Victor Dubach
  • Université de Lorraine, CNRS, IECL, F-54000 Nancy, France
Valentin Féray
  • Université de Lorraine, CNRS, IECL, F-54000 Nancy, France

Funding

  • Corsini, Benoît: has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 101034253.
  • Féray, Valentin: partially supported by the Future Leader Program of the LUE initiative.

Acknowledgements

The authors are grateful to Mathilde Bouvel for pointing out the preprint [Grübel, 2023] and for several stimulating discussions on the topic.

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