Advanced Algorithms and Data Structures
- 16h 25m
- Marcello La Rocca
- Manning Publications
- 2021
Advanced Algorithms and Data Structures introduces a collection of algorithms for complex programming challenges in data analysis, machine learning, and graph computing.
Summary
As a software engineer, you’ll encounter countless programming challenges that initially seem confusing, difficult, or even impossible. Don’t despair! Many of these “new” problems already have well-established solutions. Advanced Algorithms and Data Structures teaches you powerful approaches to a wide range of tricky coding challenges that you can adapt and apply to your own applications. Providing a balanced blend of classic, advanced, and new algorithms, this practical guide upgrades your programming toolbox with new perspectives and hands-on techniques.
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About the technology
Can you improve the speed and efficiency of your applications without investing in new hardware? Well, yes, you can: Innovations in algorithms and data structures have led to huge advances in application performance. Pick up this book to discover a collection of advanced algorithms that will make you a more effective developer.
About the book
Advanced Algorithms and Data Structures introduces a collection of algorithms for complex programming challenges in data analysis, machine learning, and graph computing. You’ll discover cutting-edge approaches to a variety of tricky scenarios. You’ll even learn to design your own data structures for projects that require a custom solution.
What's inside
- Build on basic data structures you already know
- Profile your algorithms to speed up application
- Store and query strings efficiently
- Distribute clustering algorithms with MapReduce
- Solve logistics problems using graphs and optimization algorithms
In this Book
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Foreword
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About This Book
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Introducing Data Structures
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Improving Priority Queues—D-Way Heaps
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Treaps—Using Randomization to Balance Binary Search Trees
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Bloom Filters—Reducing the Memory for Tracking Content
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Disjoint Sets—Sub-Linear Time Processing
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Trie, Radix Trie—Efficient String Search
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Use Case—LRU Cache
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Nearest Neighbors Search
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K-d Trees—Multidimensional Data Indexing
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Similarity Search Trees—Approximate Nearest Neighbors Search for Image Retrieval
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Applications of Nearest Neighbor Search
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Clustering
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Parallel Clustering—MapReduce and Canopy Clustering
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An Introduction to Graphs—Finding Paths of Minimum Distance
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Graph Embeddings and Planarity—Drawing Graphs with Minimal Edge Intersections
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Gradient Descent—Optimization Problems (Not Just) on Graphs
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Simulated Annealing—Optimization Beyond Local Minima
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Genetic Algorithms—Biologically Inspired, Fast-Converging Optimization
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