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Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 11:22 am
by ayon
you used O(L^2*n), L can be 1000 at most, and n only 50
L*L*n = 1000*1000*50 = 50000000 and
n*n*n = 50 * 50 * 50 = 125000
the original matrix chain multiplication algorithm takes only O(n^3) time, that should be used for this problem
Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 5:30 pm
by shihabrc
Thanx a lt. I took too much redaundant states. Now, i've changed my soln. and got AC. Thanx again.
-Shihab
10003 Cutting Sticks, why TLE?
Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 9:34 am
by MAK
I am using a straightforward recursion+memoization based attack at this problem. Worked for all DP problems I've tried before, but I'm getting TLE on this one. My recurrrence relation is
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cost(start, end)=min(cost(start,k)+cost(k,end)+(end-start))
where k is a cut. Is there a better/faster way?
hopeless
Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 11:48 am
by debajyoti
i was looking for a solution.
amazingl thing is that i have tried as the same method like you and found wrong answer.
if you get any help would u please forward me?
debajyoti
debajyoti_mondal_cse@yahoo.com
Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 7:24 pm
by IRA
I use DP method to solve the problem,but still got WA.
Who can give me test data to test my program?
Thanks in advance!
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#include <stdio.h>
#include <limits.h>
int table[100][100]={0};
int profit[100][100]={0};
int data[100];
int n;
int len;
void process(){
int i,j,k,min=INT_MAX;
for(i=n-1;i>=1;i--)
for(j=i+1;j<=n;j++){
min=INT_MAX;
for(k=1;k<=j-i;k++){
if( table[i][j-k]+table[j+1-k][j]<min )
min=table[i][j-k]+table[j+1-k][j];
}
table[i][j]=min;
}
}
void profit_process(){
int i,j,k,min=INT_MAX;
for(i=n-1;i>=1;i--)
for(j=i+1;j<=n;j++){
min=INT_MAX;
for(k=1;k<=j-i;k++){
if( i==j-k && j+1-k==j ){
if( table[i][j-k]+table[j+1-k][j]<min )
min=table[i][j-k]+table[j+1-k][j];
}else{
if( i==j-k ){
if( profit[j+1-k][j]+table[i][j]<min )
min=profit[j+1-k][j]+table[i][j];
}else if( j+1-k==j ){
if( profit[i][j-k]+table[i][j]<min )
min=profit[i][j-k]+table[i][j];
}else{
if( profit[i][j-k]+profit[j+1-k][j]+table[i][j]<min )
min=profit[i][j-k]+profit[j+1-k][j]+table[i][j];
}
}
}
profit[i][j]=min;
}
printf("The minimum cutting is %d.\n",profit[1][n]);
}
int main(){
int i,pre,temp;
while( scanf("%d",&len)==1 && len ){
scanf("%d",&n);
n=n+1;
pre=0;
for(i=1;i<n;i++){
scanf("%d",&temp);
profit[i][i]=table[i][i]=temp-pre;
pre=temp;
}
profit[i][i]=table[i][i]=len-pre;
process();
profit_process();
}
return 0;
}
10003 TLE
Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 8:08 am
by sumantbhardvaj
This problem is based upon Matrix Multiplication .
I wrote a top down DP solution to it .which is being timed out. Can't we have top down solution to this problem get accepted ??
Or if there is any mistake in optimization in solution then plz point it out. My code goes as follows.
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#include<string>
#include<iostream>
#include<vector>
#include<algorithm>
using namespace std;
int a[1001];
int data[1001][1001];
class sumant
{
public:
int count;
int input()
{
int l,x,n;
cin>>l;
while(l!=0)
{
count=0;
for(int i=0;i<=l;i++)
for(int j=0;j<=l;j++)
data[i][j]=-1;
cin>>n;
for(int i=0;i<=l;i++)
a[i]=0;
for(int i=0;i<n;i++)
{
cin>>x;
a[x]=1;
}
int z=memo(0,l);
cout<<"The minimum cutting is "<<z<<".\n";
//cout<<count<<"\n";
cin>>l;
}
}
int memo(int p,int q)
{
if(data[p][q]==-1)
{
int z=doit(p,q);
data[p][q]=z;
return z;
}
else
{
return data[p][q];
}
}
int doit(int p,int q)
{
int min=100000000,m;
bool flag=false;
for(int i=p+1;i<q;i++)
{
if(a[i]!=0)
{
flag=true;break;
}
}
if(!flag)
return 0;
for(int i=p+1;i<q;i++)
{
if(a[i]==1)
{
//cout<<"madar";
m=q-p+memo(p,i)+memo(i,q);
if(min>m)
min=m;
flag=true;
}
}
return min;
}
};
int main()
{
sumant s;
s.input();
return 0;
}
Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 3:36 pm
by rio
Top - down DP is enough to solve this problem.
Your implementation has too waste.
Instead of
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int a[1001];
int data[1001][1001];
Find a way with
ADD : Don't open a new thread if it already exists for the problem.
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 6:28 am
by andmej
Hello all,
I'm a dynamic programming newbie.
I'm trying to solve this problem with a recursive function with memoization. However, I'm getting Time limit exceeded. I calculate the cost of cutting stick which starts at position i and ends and position j by finding the minimum cost of summing (j-i) plus the cost of cutting the stick from i to P[k] and from P[k] to j, where P[k] is a given partition point.
I read there's a faster algorithm, but I can't understand it.
Any advice?
Thanks for helping a newbie!
If you are interested, here's my (slow) code:
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I got accepted thanks to the help of emotional blind.
Thanks again!
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 12:08 pm
by emotional blind
This part is costly. Try using O(n^2) memory. Here n<50, which is much smaller.
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 12:12 pm
by emotional blind
Another approach:
remove memset part
and
insert
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for(int i=0;i<=n+1;++i){
for(int j=i;j<=n+1;++j){
cache[p[i]][p[j]]=-1;
}
}
after this block
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for (int i=1; i<=n; ++i){
cin >> p[i];
}
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 4:13 pm
by andmej
Thanks a lot, emotional blind. That made the trick and got my program accepted.
I thought memset was the fastest way to initialize a block of memory. However, you made my notice that I'm wasting a lot of space when using a matrix of 1001 * 1001 integers. I think it's possible to solve it using a 52 * 52 integers matrix, I will try to do it.
Thanks again, emotional blind!
10003 - Cutting Sticks
Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 12:05 pm
by BUET
why Runtime error?
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#include<iostream>
using namespace std;
#define INF 4294967295
int num,l;
int length;
bool cut[100000];
unsigned long s[2005][2005] = {0};
// will print the ordering of cutting
//this part is optional to UVA 10003 problem
void print(int i,int j)
{
if( s[i][j] != 0)
printf("%d ",s[i][j]);
else return;
print(i,s[i][j]);
print(s[i][j],j);
}
void matrix_chain()
{
unsigned long m[500][500] = {0};
//int **m;
unsigned int q;
int l,j,i,k;
int check = 0;
memset(s,0,sizeof(s));
//memset(m,0,sizeof(m));
for( l = 2; l <= length; l++)
{
for( i = 0; i <= length-l; i++)
{
j = i+l;
m[i][j] = INF;
for( k = i + 1; k < j;k++)
{
if( cut[k] == true )
{
check = 1;
q = m[i][k] + m[k][j] + (j - i);
if( q < m[i][j])
{
m[i][j] = q;
s[i][j] = k;
}
}
}
if( check == 0)
{
m[i][j] = 0;
}
check = 0;
}
}
cout << m[0][length] << ".\n" ;
print(0,length);
cout << endl;
}
int main(void)
{
int size,i,k,m,n,c = 1;
int p[2010] = {0};
while(1)
{
cin >> l;
length = l;
if(!l) break;
cin >> n;
memset(cut,false,sizeof(cut));
for(i = 1; i <= n; i++)
{
cin >> m;
cut[m] = true;
}
cout << "The minimum cutting is ";
matrix_chain();
}
return 0;
}
Re: 10003 - Cutting Sticks
Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2010 11:40 am
by sir. manuel
libreiries...you need "string.h" to memset,,,too "stdio.h"
Re: 10003 - Cutting Sticks
Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 2:09 pm
by plamplam
Try to find a O(n*n) algorithm...O(n*n*l) fails.
Re: 10003 - Cutting Sticks
Posted: Mon Jun 03, 2013 1:09 pm
by bazocc4
HELPPP... i really don't get to understand the meaning of this problem +_+
can someone please give a short explanation please?
i'm already see
http://www.algorithmist.com/index.php/U ... xplanation
but still don't get the problem meaning, very stressed +_+
Thanks in advande
