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11307 - Alternative Arborescence
Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 7:22 pm
by mmonish
can anyone give me some hint on how to solve this problem..
Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 7:53 pm
by sclo
DP:
let f(i,j) = minimum sum of subtree rooted at i, where i has color j
Further, the maximum color we need can be more than 2
Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 8:31 pm
by rushel
how stupid i am. i tried dp with 3 colors. thank sclo now i got ACCEPTED using 20 colors.
but how could i proof that how many colors are needed.
Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 3:40 am
by mmonish
I tried DP but i am getting WA. Anyone please give me some critical test case..
Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 7:30 am
by baodog
I believe number of colors can be bounded by C*log n or so.
In this case exactly 6 colors suffice.
Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 7:52 am
by mmonish
Can anyone tell me what i did wrong here..
Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 8:05 am
by baodog
Looks like you assume root is 0.
The root is in general not 0.
Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 9:02 am
by mmonish
>>baodog
Thx for ur quick reply. Now i get AC.
Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 12:05 pm
by goodwill
You may find this O(n) algorithm interesting (no need to know how many color there are).
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/494676.html
Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 1:49 pm
by Darko
I found the way to build the minimum size trees that need k colors and the linear algorithm to calculate the chromatic sum of a tree in the paper referenced there:
'Introduction to chromatic sums' - Kubicka, Schwenk (1989)
Expanded version is the first section of Kubicka's PhD thesis.
I thought it was fun, just because it is not that obvious how many colors you need and some obvious greedy approaches don't work (like assigning 1's to a max independent set).
A tree needs more than 10000 nodes to use the 9th color. The sequence of minimum number of nodes that force kth color is in
OEIS - I didn't find the chromatic sum mentioned there, but that is the sequence.
baodog is right, test cases go only up to 6 colors (I was doing them by hand - too lazy, I guess, but if you solve for 6 I think you solved it).
Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 2:53 pm
by Robert Gerbicz
Today I've implemented that algorithm. Giving me the first position on this problem's ranklist by only 0.030 sec. of running time.
Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 12:11 am
by sclo
Actually, on the contest, I saw many people got WA the first try, so I guessed that greedy doesn't really work, and tried an solution for 10 colors, since it seems reasonable that the number of color is around O(log n)
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 7:00 pm
by Donotalo
I tried with 10 colors but got WA. Here is my code:
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#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <sstream>
using namespace std;
#define MAX 10004
#define NCOLOR 10
unsigned long INF = (1 << 29);
int degree[MAX], graph[MAX][MAX], cost[MAX][NCOLOR];
int main()
{
register int m, p;
int n, i, j, k, color;
string line, first;
while(cin >> n) {
if (n == 0) break;
cin.ignore();
memset(degree, 0, sizeof(degree));
memset(graph, 0, sizeof(graph));
for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
getline(cin, line);
stringstream sstr;
sstr << line;
sstr >> first;
first.erase(first.size()-1, 1);
stringstream sstr2;
sstr2 << first;
sstr2 >> j;
while(sstr >> k) {
if (k > j)
graph[j][degree[j]++] = k;
else
graph[k][degree[k]++] = j;
}
}
/* for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
cout << i << ": ";
for (j = 0; j < degree[i]; j++)
cout << graph[i][j] << ' ';
cout << endl;
}
cout << endl;*/
for (i = n-1; i >= 0; i--) {
if (degree[i] == 0) {
for (j = 0; j < NCOLOR; j++)
cost[i][j] = j + 1;
}
else {
for (color = 0; color < NCOLOR; color++) {
k = 0;
for (j = 0; j < degree[i]; j++) {
m = INF;
for (p = 0; p < NCOLOR; p++) {
if (p == color) continue;
if (cost[graph[i][j]][p] < m)
m = cost[graph[i][j]][p];
}
k += m;
}
cost[i][color] = k + color + 1;
}
}
}
m = cost[0][0];
for (i = 1; i < degree[0]; i++)
if (cost[0][i] < m)
m = cost[0][i];
cout << m << endl;
}
return 0;
}
Can anyone help me to find my mistake?
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 5:57 pm
by Sedefcho
Hello all,
I have implemented the algorithm described in the OCCP article
by Leo G. Kroon, Arunabha Sen, Haiyong Deng and Asim Roy.
Check this link (it's a PostScript file):
http://www.public.asu.edu/~halla/papers/OCCPWG96.ps
I have tested it with several test cases (simple ones)
and the answers seem OK.
I got RE from the judge though.
Could someone give any hint about special cases,
boundary conditions etc. I am stuck as the new system
provides no feedback at all about the error (not even
a simple email).
Thanks in advance.
Sedefcho
Re: 11307 - Alternative Arborescence
Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 5:09 pm
by lonelyone
Why it got Runtime Error? Could someone explain this for me? Thanks a lot.
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for(i=0; i<n; ++i)
{
gets(line);
p = line;
sscanf(p, "%d%n", &from, &len);
p += len;
while(*p)
{
if(sscanf(p, "%d%n", &to, &len) == 1)
{
v[from].push_back(to);
}
p += len;
}
}