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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.AofA.2024.21

Binary Search Trees of Permuton Samples

Authors: Benoît Corsini, Victor Dubach, and Valentin Féray

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 302, 35th International Conference on Probabilistic, Combinatorial and Asymptotic Methods for the Analysis of Algorithms (AofA 2024)

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)

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@InProceedings{corsini_et_al:LIPIcs.AofA.2024.21,
  author =	{Corsini, Beno\^{i}t and Dubach, Victor and F\'{e}ray, Valentin},
  title =	{{Binary Search Trees of Permuton Samples}},
  booktitle =	{35th International Conference on Probabilistic, Combinatorial and Asymptotic Methods for the Analysis of Algorithms (AofA 2024)},
  pages =	{21:1--21:13},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-329-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{302},
  editor =	{Mailler, C\'{e}cile and Wild, Sebastian},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.AofA.2024.21},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-204562},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.AofA.2024.21},
  annote =	{Keywords: Binary search trees, random permutations, permutons}
}

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