Which sorting algorithm does TensorFlow use?











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I'm trying to figure out how TensorFlow's sort function works.



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The function is tf.contrib.framework.sort(values)?
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      The function is tf.contrib.framework.sort(values)?
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          From the sort source code, this is the line where the actual sort operation is called. The topk op is actually part of the core kernels and is written in C/C++. This is the corresponding source code for it. A quick high level glance seems to employ some form of heap sort.






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