AlphaDev was able to shave an instruction off of sort-3, sort-5, and sort-8, and even more off of sort-6 and sort-7. There was only one (sort-4) where it didn't find a way to improve the human code.

Figure 1. Sorting Approaches: (a) bubble sort and (b) merge sort. Listing 1: C-simulation code for bubble sort method. In the merge sort method, we start by dividing the array A into one element ...

Now we’ll use this algorithm to sort a singly linked list. Example #3: Insertion Sort for singly linked lists. Insertion Sort orders a singly linked list of n data items into ascending or ...

The existing C++ algorithm for sorting a list of five items took around 6.91 nanoseconds on a typical Intel Skylake chip. AlphaDev’s took 2.01 nanoseconds, around 70% faster. Related Story ...

An artificial intelligence (AI) system based on Google DeepMind’s AlphaZero AI created algorithms that, when translated into the standard programming language C++, can sort data up to three ...