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In computer science, quickselect is a selection algorithm to find the kth smallest element in an unordered list, also known as the kth order statistic. Like the related quicksort sorting algorithm, it was developed by Tony Hoare , and thus is also known as Hoare's selection algorithm . [ 1 ]
This is because quickselect is a divide and conquer algorithm, with each step taking () time in the size of the remaining search set. If the search set decreases exponentially quickly in size (by a fixed proportion), this yields a geometric series times the O ( n ) {\displaystyle O(n)} factor of a single step, and thus linear overall time.
In computer science, divide and conquer is an algorithm design paradigm. A divide-and-conquer algorithm recursively breaks down a problem into two or more sub-problems of the same or related type, until these become simple enough to be solved directly. The solutions to the sub-problems are then combined to give a solution to the original problem.
An algorithm is fundamentally a set of rules or defined procedures that is typically designed and used to solve a specific problem or a broad set of problems.. Broadly, algorithms define process(es), sets of rules, or methodologies that are to be followed in calculations, data processing, data mining, pattern recognition, automated reasoning or other problem-solving operations.
Unlike quickselect, this algorithm is deterministic, not randomized. [2] [4] [5] It was the first linear-time deterministic selection algorithm known, [5] and is commonly taught in undergraduate algorithms classes as an example of a divide and conquer that does not divide into two equal subproblems.
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This technique can be used to improve the efficiency of many eigenvalue algorithms, but it has special significance to divide-and-conquer. For the rest of this article, we will assume the input to the divide-and-conquer algorithm is an real symmetric tridiagonal matrix . The algorithm can be modified for Hermitian matrices.
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