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Analysis of Smooth Heaps and Slim Heaps

Authors Maria Hartmann, László Kozma, Corwin Sinnamon , Robert E. Tarjan

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Maria Hartmann
  • Institut für Informatik, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
László Kozma
  • Institut für Informatik, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Corwin Sinnamon
  • Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, NJ, USA
Robert E. Tarjan
  • Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, NJ, USA
  • Intertrust Technologies, Sunnyvale, CA, USA

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  • Hartmann, Maria: Work supported by DFG grant KO 6140/1-1.
  • Kozma, László: Work supported by DFG grant KO 6140/1-1.
  • Tarjan, Robert E.: Research at Princeton University partially supported by an innovation research grant from Princeton and a gift from Microsoft.

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Maria Hartmann, László Kozma, Corwin Sinnamon, and Robert E. Tarjan. Analysis of Smooth Heaps and Slim Heaps. In 48th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 198, pp. 79:1-79:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2021.79

Abstract

The smooth heap is a recently introduced self-adjusting heap [Kozma, Saranurak, 2018] similar to the pairing heap [Fredman, Sedgewick, Sleator, Tarjan, 1986]. The smooth heap was obtained as a heap-counterpart of Greedy BST, a binary search tree updating strategy conjectured to be instance-optimal [Lucas, 1988], [Munro, 2000]. Several adaptive properties of smooth heaps follow from this connection; moreover, the smooth heap itself has been conjectured to be instance-optimal within a certain class of heaps. Nevertheless, no general analysis of smooth heaps has existed until now, the only previous analysis showing that, when used in sorting mode (n insertions followed by n delete-min operations), smooth heaps sort n numbers in O(nlg n) time.
In this paper we describe a simpler variant of the smooth heap we call the slim heap. We give a new, self-contained analysis of smooth heaps and slim heaps in unrestricted operation, obtaining amortized bounds that match the best bounds known for self-adjusting heaps. Previous experimental work has found the pairing heap to dominate other data structures in this class in various settings. Our tests show that smooth heaps and slim heaps are competitive with pairing heaps, outperforming them in some cases, while being comparably easy to implement.

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  • Theory of computation → Data structures design and analysis
Keywords
  • data structure
  • heap
  • priority queue
  • amortized analysis
  • self-adjusting

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