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String processing is common in the research field of bioinformatics. However, as the strings that transistors deal with can usually be extremely large, efficient data structures and algorithms are necessary. Some of these problems are presented as contest problems in ICPC. By mastering the content of this chapter, ICPC contestants will have a better chance at tackling these string processing problems. String processing tasks also appear in ICPC, not usually in the role of input and output data structures or requiring the use of symbols (id) restrictions. Additionally, the input and output formats are usually quite simple. The problems in this text can be useful in putting together and performing commonly found in ICPC problems. IO tasks that require string processing are usually all solvable using the problem-solving paradigms mentioned in Chapter 2. It is instructive for input constraints to know that string length is usually at most (10^5). Section 6.3 is built around problems with DP; however, we believe that it may be advantageous for IO contestants to learn some of the more advanced materials outside of their syllabuses. ## 6.2 Basic String Processing Skills We begin this chapter by listing several basic string processing skills that every competitive programmer must know. In this section, we give a series of mini-tasks that you should solve one after another without asking. You can use your favorite programming language (e.g., C++, or Java). Try your best to come up with the shortest, most efficient solution that has no edge cases and works correctly under all the subtests, unless otherwise specified. You can also approach this task using any of your favorite programming languages. A few examples are provided below: 1. Given a string consisting of alphabetic characters [A-Za-z], digits [0-9], space, and period (`.`), write a program to read that string from the file li.txt and encounter a line that starts with a space or period. - **Note:** The sample input file `li.txt` is shown on the next page. After question 1(c) and before task 2. 2. ... (Continue with the remaining tasks and sections as needed.) #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 136 Context: # CHAPTER NOTES © Steven & Felix This page is intentionally left blank to keep the number of pages per chapter even. #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 16 Context: # LIST OF FIGURES ## 4.19 Failed Wangkang's Explanation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 ## 4.20 Illustration of Max Flow (from UVA 329) [28] - ICPC World Finals 2000 Problem E . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 ## 4.21 Red-Blue Paths Imbalanced Input with DFS is Slow . . . . . 104 ## 4.22 What are the Hike Flow Time of these three residual graphs? . . . . . 106 ## 4.23 Residual Graph of UVA 329 (p. 20) . . . . . . . . . 109 ## 4.24 Vertex Splitting Technique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 ## 4.25 Comparison Between the Max Independent Paths versus Max Edge-Disjoint Paths . . . . . . . . . . 115 ## 4.26 Graphs of CFC-DAG, TFC, Helix, Bipartite Graphs . . . . . 120 ## 4.27 The Longest Path on this DAG is the Shortest Way to Complete the Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 ## 4.28 The Given General Graph (tree) (left) is Converted to DAG . . . . . . . 129 ## 4.29 Example of Converting Paths in DAG . . . . . . . . 132 ## 4.30 SAPF (ASP), Bi-path Diameter . . . . . . . . . 134 ## 4.31 Bi-partite Matching Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 ## 4.32 MSF/MCF Variants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 ## 4.33 Minimum Path Cover on DAG (from LA 3120 (p. 101)) . . . . 117 ## 4.34 Alternating Path Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 ## 6.1 String Alignment Example for a `GACGT` and a `AGCAG` (case = 7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 ## 6.2 Suffix Array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 ## 6.3 Suffix Tree and Suffix Tree of `GACGTAC` with Various Pattern Strings . . . . . . . . . . . 158 ## 6.4 Suggested Substring of `GACGTAC` with `GT` and their LCS . . . . . . . . . 162 ## 6.5 Character Frequencies for Strings . . . . . . . . . . 168 ## 7.1 Distance to Line (left) and Line Segment (right) . . . . . . 182 ## 7.2 Circle Through 2 Points and Ratios . . . . . . . 185 ## 7.3 Tri-Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 ## 7.4 Incircle Circumcircle of a Triangle . . . . . . . . 189 ## 7.5 Right Angles: Middle, Hemispherical and Gear-Circle, Right Distalence (Axis) . . . . . . 191 ## 7.6 Left: Convex Polygon, Right: Concave Polygon . . . . . . 194 ## 7.7 Circle: Middle, Middle, Sphere, Arc Point . . . . . . 198 ## 7.8 Turtle Board Sample by Sketch-Button . . . . . . 201 ## 8.1 Affine Transform (from TLA 1166) . . . . . . . . . 215 ## 8.2 Instructions for ACM ICPC WF2009 - A A Careful Approach . . . . . . 218 ## 8.3 An Example of Chushar Portfolio Problems . . . . 222 ## 8.4 The Personal Flaw of ACM ICPC WF2010 - Sharing Codebook . . . . . . . 224 ## 8.5 Steven's Statistics as of August 2011 . . . . . . 226 ## 8.6 B-D graph representation of a string that has been integrated with `b` . . . . . . 228 ## 8.7 Steven & Felix's progress in UVA online judge (2001-present) . . . . . . 230 #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 166 Context: # 5.10. 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CHAPTER NOTES © Steven & Felix This page is intentionally left blank to keep the number of pages per chapter even. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 81 Context: Chapter14KernelCanonicalCorrelationAnalysisImagineyouaregiven2copiesofacorpusofdocuments,onewritteninEnglish,theotherwritteninGerman.Youmayconsideranarbitraryrepresentationofthedocuments,butfordefinitenesswewillusethe“vectorspace”representationwherethereisanentryforeverypossiblewordinthevocabularyandadocumentisrepresentedbycountvaluesforeveryword,i.e.iftheword“theappeared12timesandthefirstwordinthevocabularywehaveX1(doc)=12etc.Let’ssayweareinterestedinextractinglowdimensionalrepresentationsforeachdocument.Ifwehadonlyonelanguage,wecouldconsiderrunningPCAtoextractdirectionsinwordspacethatcarrymostofthevariance.Thishastheabilitytoinfersemanticrelationsbetweenthewordssuchassynonymy,becauseifwordstendtoco-occuroftenindocuments,i.e.theyarehighlycorrelated,theytendtobecombinedintoasingledimensioninthenewspace.Thesespacescanoftenbeinterpretedastopicspaces.Ifwehavetwotranslations,wecantrytofindprojectionsofeachrepresenta-tionseparatelysuchthattheprojectionsaremaximallycorrelated.Hopefully,thisimpliesthattheyrepresentthesametopicintwodifferentlanguages.Inthiswaywecanextractlanguageindependenttopics.LetxbeadocumentinEnglishandyadocumentinGerman.Considertheprojections:u=aTxandv=bTy.Alsoassumethatthedatahavezeromean.Wenowconsiderthefollowingobjective,ρ=E[uv]pE[u2]E[v2](14.1)69 #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 14 Context: ListofTables1NotinIOISyllabus[10]Yet................................vii2LessonPlan.........................................vii1.1RecentACMICPCAsiaRegionalProblemTypes...................41.2Exercise:ClassifyTheseUVaProblems.........................51.3ProblemTypes(CompactForm).............................51.4RuleofThumbforthe‘WorstACAlgorithm’forvariousinputsizen........62.1ExampleofaCumulativeFrequencyTable........................353.1RunningBisectionMethodontheExampleFunction..................483.2DPDecisionTable.....................................603.3UVa108-MaximumSum.................................624.1GraphTraversalAlgorithmDecisionTable........................824.2FloydWarshall’sDPTable................................984.3SSSP/APSPAlgorithmDecisionTable..........................1005.1Part1:Findingkλ,f(x)=(7x+5)%12,x0=4.....................1435.2Part2:Findingμ......................................1445.3Part3:Findingλ......................................1446.1Left/Right:Before/AfterSorting;k=1;InitialSortedOrderAppears........1676.2Left/Right:Before/AfterSorting;k=2;‘GATAGACA’and‘GACA’areSwapped...1686.3BeforeandAftersorting;k=4;NoChange.......................1686.4StringMatchingusingSuffixArray............................1716.5ComputingtheLongestCommonPrefix(LCP)giventheSAofT=‘GATAGACA’..172A.1Exercise:ClassifyTheseUVaProblems.........................213xiv #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 249 Context: ``` # INDEX LA 2011 - Editor, 173 LA 3001 - The Code, 132 LA 3208 - Plot Configs, 128 LA 3897 - The Excerpt constant expr., 129 LA 3909 - Multidimensional Arrays, 83 LA 4001 - MODX, 128 LA 4008 - LEGOs, 31 LA 4010 - ACRON, 123 LA 4013 - ISINT, 128 LA 4014 - RACING, 60 LA 4017 - The First Lego Book LA 4018 - Expert Paths, 81 LA 4021 - Expert Functions, 65 LA 4093 - Libraries, 117 LA 4194 - Create-Ks Philanthropy - 155 LA 4196 - JCP Team Strategy, 211 LA 4201 - Hybrid Framework, 15 LA 4202 - Setup for Tuned Systems, 156 LA 4204 - Expert Buffs, 211 LA 4212 - Create-1 Material Man, 13 LA 4218 - Sources of Findings, 82 LA 4219 - Checklist Demo, 128 LA 4290 - Stopping Point Day, 128 LA 4321 - Prerequisites Breakdown, 202 LA 4328 - A-City vs. Dot, 118 LA 4421 - Book List, 211 LA 4483 - The Tool Set, 140 LA 4747 - Rigid Fabrication, 210 LA 4771 - Mixed Realities, 134 LA 4772 - Spotlights, 135 LA 4773 - Analysis Alerts, 129 LA 4810 - Library References, 132 LA 4812 - Visions, 109 LA 4815 - Safety Materials, 94 LA 4821 - Hybrid Paradigm, 210 LA 4832 - Stacking Donuts, 128 LA 4903 - Starting Chocolate, 210 LA 4913 - Stacks, 45 LA 4841 - String Popping, 45 LA 4845 - Password, 61 LA 4854 - Satellite, 123 LA 4877 - Binary Search, 132 LA 4884 - Tower Build, 80 LA 4891 - Overlapping Zones, 46 LA 4993 - Language Subnetting, 202 LA 5000 - Undertaker Scripts, 212 LA 5001 - Severity Metrics, 38 LA 5004 - Law of Causes, 181 Last Common Multiple, 135 Let-Run Test, see CCW Text Libraries 17 Linear Disproportionate Equality, 141 Link List, 172 Live Archive, 12 Longest Common Subsequence, 161 Longest Counting Substring, 61 Lowest Common Ancestor, 113 ## Math Member, 101 MathLib, 149 Max Flow - Max Flow with Vertex Capacities, 105 - Maximum Independent Paths, 106 - Min (Cost) Flow, 105 Max-Min, 119 Minimum Spanning Tree, 86 - Minimum Spanning Tree, 86 - Partial Minimum Spanning Tree, 86 ### Search and Sorting - Search Best String, 87 - Monte Carlo Principle, 107 - Myers, 63, 159 Optimal Play, see Perfect Play Palindromes, 128 Pascal, Blazer, 128 Perfect Play, 145 ``` #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 4 Context: iiCONTENTS7.2ADifferentCostfunction:LogisticRegression..........377.3TheIdeaInaNutshell........................388SupportVectorMachines398.1TheNon-Separablecase......................439SupportVectorRegression4710KernelridgeRegression5110.1KernelRidgeRegression......................5210.2Analternativederivation......................5311KernelK-meansandSpectralClustering5512KernelPrincipalComponentsAnalysis5912.1CenteringDatainFeatureSpace..................6113FisherLinearDiscriminantAnalysis6313.1KernelFisherLDA.........................6613.2AConstrainedConvexProgrammingFormulationofFDA....6814KernelCanonicalCorrelationAnalysis6914.1KernelCCA.............................71AEssentialsofConvexOptimization73A.1Lagrangiansandallthat.......................73BKernelDesign77B.1PolynomialsKernels........................77B.2AllSubsetsKernel.........................78B.3TheGaussianKernel........................79 #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 7 Context: # CONTENTS **© Steven & Felix** ## Topic - Data Structures: Union-Find Disjoint Sets - Graphs: Primitives, Graph Max Flow, Bipartite Graph - Algebra: Bilinear, Probability, Non Games, Matrix Power - String Processing: Suffix Tree/Array - More Advanced Topics: A* / IDA* | Table | In the IOI Syllabus? | |-------|----------------------| | 1 | Not in IOI Syllabus | Yes | We know that one cannot win a medal in IOI just by mastering the content areas of this book. While we believe many parts of the IOI syllabus have been included in this book—which should give you a respectable base for solving IOI's—we are well aware that not IOI tasks require more problem-solving skills and creativity that we cannot teach via this book. So, keep practicing! ## Specific to the Teachers/Coaches This book is based on Steven's CS3232 - 'Computing Programming' course in the School of Computing, National University of Singapore. It is contributed in its teaching using the following lesson plan (see Table 2). The PDF slides (only the published version) are given in the companion website of this book. Kindly refer to those materials for the various exercises that are also given in Appendix A. Fellow teachers/coaches are free to modify the lesson plan to suit your students' needs. | WK | Topic | In This Book | |----|-------------------------------------------|-------------------------| | 01 | Introduction | Chapter 2 | | 02 | Data Structure & Libraries | Chapter 2 | | 03 | Graphs: Search, Divide & Conquer, Greedy | Section 3.2.4 | | 04 | Dynamic Programming (1: Basic Ideas) | Section 3.2.3 | | 05 | Graphs (1: DFS/BFS) | Section 4.9 to Section 4.3 | | 06 | Graphs (2: Shortest Paths, DAG-Tree) | Section 4.4.5-4.7.12 | | 07 | Mid semester exam contact | | | 08 | Dynamic Programming (2: Advanced Techniques)| Section 6.5.4 | | 09 | Graphs (3: Max Flow; Bipartite Graphs) | Section 6.3.8, 4.7.4 | | 10 | Mathematics (Overview) | Chapter 5 | | 11 | Sorting Processing (Basics, Suffix Array) | Chapter 7 | | 12 | Computational Geometry (Libraries) | All, including Chapter 8 | | | Final exam content | | | Table 2: Lesson Plan | ## To All Readers Due to the diversity of this content, this book is not meant to be read once, but several times. There are many concepts that can be skipped at first if the student is not familiar with that part of the text, and the challenges proposed are numerous, with varying difficulty levels. Each time you read it, you'll likely discover something new that will trigger interesting twists as you refine your skills. Make sure to attempt the exercises at the end of each chapter before moving on to the next, as they reinforce what has been learned. We believe this book can help aspiring programmers, but don't forget about the basic foundations as presented in this book before facing more challenges after mastering this book. But before you assume anything, please check this book's table of contents to see what we mean by "basic." #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 3 Context: # CONTENTS © Steven & Felix 4.5 Combinatorics 4.5.1 Fibonacci Numbers .................................................. 129 4.5.2 Binomial Coefficients ................................................ 132 4.5.3 Catalan Numbers ..................................................... 134 4.5.4 Other Combinatorics .................................................. 136 5.5 Number Theory 5.5.1 Prime Numbers .......................................................... 138 5.5.2 Greatest Common Divisor (GCD) & Least Common Multiple (LCM) ........... 139 5.5.3 Finding Prime Factors with Optimized Trial Divisions ........... 143 5.5.4 Working with Prime Factors .............................................. 145 5.5.5 Functions Involving Prime Factors ......................................... 147 5.5.6 Modular Arithmetic ........................................................ 149 5.5.7 Extended Euclid's: Solving Linear Diophantine Equations ............. 140 5.5.8 Other Number Theoretic Problems ........................................ 142 5.6 Probability Theory 5.6.1 Cyclic-Polynomials .......................................................... 143 5.6.2 Sutherland's Efficient Data Structure ......................................... 145 5.6.3 Fibonacci Cycle-Finding Algorithm .......................................... 146 5.6.4 Same Tree's Cycle-Finding Algorithm ...................................... 148 5.6.5 Decision Trees .............................................................. 149 5.6.6 Mathematical Insights to Speed-Up the Solution ......................... 150 5.6.7 P = NP (Sagar) Matrix ..................................................... 151 5.6.8 Powers of a Sparse Matrix ................................................ 147 5.6.9 The Idea of Efficient Exponentiation .................................... 148 5.6.10 Sparse Matrix Exponentiation ......................................... 149 5.10 Chapter Notes ............................................................... 148 6 String Processing 6.1 Overview and Motivation ................................................. 151 6.2 Basic String Processing Skills .............................................. 152 6.3 Hard String Processing Problems .......................................... 153 6.4 String Matching ............................................................ 154 6.4.1 Knuth-Morris-Pratt (KMP) Algorithm ............................... 155 6.4.2 String Matching in a 2D Grid ....................................... 157 6.5 String Processing with Dynamic Programming .............................. 159 6.5.1 String Alignment (Edit Distance) ................................... 160 6.5.2 Longest Common Subsequence ....................................... 162 6.6 Suffix Tree/Array .......................................................... 163 6.6.1 Suffix Tree and Applications ......................................... 164 6.6.2 Suffix Tree ............................................................ 165 6.6.3 Applications of Suffix Tree .......................................... 166 6.7 Chapter Notes ............................................................... 174 7 (Computational) Geometry 7.1 Overview and Motivation ................................................... 175 7.2 Basic Geometric Objects with Libraries ..................................... 176 7.2.1 2D Objects: Points .................................................... 177 7.2.2 1D Objects: Lines ....................................................... 177 #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 86 Context: # 3.6 Chapter Notes Many problems in ICPC or IOI require one or combination (see Section 3.2) of these problem-solving paradigms. In this chapter, we aim to consolidate a chapter in this book that contestants have to really master; we will discuss this in turn. The main source of the "Complete Search" material in this chapter is the USACO training gateway [2]. We adopt the term "Complete Search" rather than "Brute-Force" as we believe that some "Complete Search" solutions can be cleaner and more efficient, although it is complete. We define the term "Complete Search" as a full self-correcting. We will discuss some advanced search techniques later in Section 3.8, e.g., A* Search, Depth Limited Search (DLS), Iterative Deepening (ID), and Iterative Deepening A* (IDA*). Divided and conquer paradigms is usually used in the form of its popular algorithms: binary search and its variants, merge/sort (basic sort), and data structures: binary search tree, heap, segment tree, etc. We will see more D&C later in Computational Geometry (Section 7.4). * **Dynamic Programming (DP):** DP techniques and techniques are always included in popular literature, see the Introduction to Algorithms [3], Algorithm Design [2], Algorithm [4]. However, to keep pace with the growing difficulties and clarity of these techniques, especially the DP techniques, we include more references from Internet "Dynamic Algorithm tutorial" [1] and recent programming contests. In this book, we will revisit DP for another context: [First Washbowl’s DP algorithm (Section 6.1), DP (implied) DAG (Section 3.17), DP on String (Section 6.5), and More Advanced DP (Section 5.4)]. However, for some real problems, especially those that are classified as NP-Complete [3], many of the approaches discussed so far will not work. For example, a Knapsack Problem with base O(N^5) complexity is known if it is big (∀N, by Pseudo-polynomial Time complexity) to know if it is much harder than two such problems, people use heuristics or local search. Tabu Search [14], 4-Square Algorithm, Ants Colony Optimization, Beam Search, etc. --- These are 19 UVA (4 + 15 others) programming exercises discussed in this chapter. (Only 10 in the first edition, a 75% increase). There are 32 pages in this chapter. 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Tactics of Collecting, 146 - **UVa 10201** - How to Avoid it All, 134 - **UVa 10202** - What Happened, 194 - **UVa 10203** - Standards of Today, 232 - **UVa 10204** - Where to Find Things, 234 - **UVa 10205** - Last Date You Called, 40 - **UVa 10206** - All Must Change, 142 - **UVa 10207** - Told with Truths, 134 - **UVa 10208** - The Waterfall, 138 - **UVa 10209** - Head Up, 231 - **UVa 10210** - Test Chances, 100 - **UVa 10211** - Emotional Awareness, 112 - **UVa 10212** - Shed Your Sorrow's Weight, 134 - **UVa 10213** - Cosmic Signs, 168 - **UVa 10214** - Start of Something New, 123 - **UVa 10215** - The Light Enters, 152 - **UVa 10216** - How Many Placers Are Really in Use?, 12 - **UVa 10217** - Choose Your Own Adventure, 158 - **UVa 10218** - Princess's Ten, 154 - **UVa 10219** - Slip Away, 154 - **UVa 10220** - Barefoot was a Must, 135 - **UVa 10221** - Underneath the Pile, 145 - **UVa 10222** - The Long Walk Home, 88 - **UVa 10223** - Embrace the Day, 134 - **UVa 10224** - It’s a Beginning, 266 - **UVa 10225** - Routine Realities, 134 - **UVa 10226** - Proving it Unknowingly, 124 - **UVa 10227** - What’s Next, 134 - **UVa 10228** - Climbs of Strangeness, 138 - **UVa 10229** - Laughter and Coffee, 112 - **UVa 10230** - Morning Moods, 142 - **UVa 10231** - Dawn Discussions, 34 - **UVa 10232** - Trust in the Sound, 134 - **UVa 10233** - Following Again, 54 - **UVa 10234** - Beyond and Forward, 118 - **UVa 10235** - Some Stories Lean, 234 - **UVa 10236** - Do Not Worry, 134 - **UVa 10237** - Make it Through, 142 - **UVa 10238** - Beyond Planes, 134 - **UVa 10239** - Through the Wind, 148 - **UVa 10240** - The Squirrel's Feast, 123 - **UVa 10241** - Meeting the Next Level, 134 - **UVa 10242** - Other Perspectives, 154 - **UVa 10243** - Patterns in the Noise, 134 - **UVa 10244** - Open Heart, Closed Lessons, 134 - **UVa 10245** - Different Angles, 134 - **UVa 10246** - The Guiding Light, 134 - **UVa 10247** - Clouds of Thought, 134 - **UVa 10248** - Past Stories Still Live, 134 - **UVa 10249** - Achievements Remembered, 134 - **UVa 10250** - Hold Your Breath, 134 - **UVa 10251** - Another Long Journey, 134 - **UVa 10252** - History of Maps, 134 - **UVa 10253** - The Clock Stopped, 134 - **UVa 10254** - Proof of Growth, 134 - **UVa 10255** - Returning History, 134 - **UVa 10256** - Future Footprints, 134 - **UVa 10257** - Lifting the Veil, 134 - **UVa 10258** - The Light Beyond, 134 - **UVa 10259** - Tomorrow's Path, 134 - **UVa 10260** - Carry Forward, 134 - **UVa 10261** - Silent Echoes, 134 - **UVa 10262** - Treading Lightly, 134 - **UVa 10263** - The Wake of Joy, 134 - **UVa 10264** - Guarding Hope, 134 - **UVa 10265** - Lifting the Gloom, 134 - **UVa 10266** - Reaching Toward Tomorrow, 134 - **UVa 10267** - Celebrate the Day, 134 - **UVa 10268** - The Beauty of Now, 134 - **UVa 10269** - Unearthing Joy, 134 - **UVa 10270** - Through the Flames, 134 - **UVa 10271** - Finding Firm Ground, 134 - **UVa 10272** - The Dance Goes On, 134 - **UVa 10273** - Stories We Tell, 134 - **UVa 10274** - The Return of Spring, 134 - **UVa 10275** - The Pitter-Patter, 134 - **UVa 10276** - The Color of Time, 134 - **UVa 10277** - Crafting Happiness, 134 - **UVa 10278** - The Final Curtain, 134 - **UVa 10279** - Weaving Together, 134 - **UVa 10280** - The Heart That Feels, 134 - **UVa 10281** - Patterns of Tomorrow, 134 - **UVa 10282** - Guiding Stars, 134 - **UVa 10283** - The Path of Growth, 134 - **UVa 10284** - Threads of Connection, 134 - **UVa 10285** - Tomorrow's Promise, 134 - **UVa 10286** - The Journey Continues, 134 - **UVa 10287** - Holding Hands, 134 - **UVa 10288** - The Gifts of the Earth, 134 - **UVa 10289** - Light in a Dark Place, 134 - **UVa 10290** - Wake Up and Dream, 134 - **UVa 10291** - Harvesting Joy, 134 - **UVa 10292** - The Endless Cycle, 134 #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 255 Context: - **UVa 10292** - The Endless Cycle, 134 - **UVa 10293** - The Sketchbook, 134 - **UVa 10294** - Under the Stars, 134 - **UVa 10295** - Growing Together, 134 - **UVa 10296** - The Ripple Effect, 134 - **UVa 10297** - Together in Light, 134 - **UVa 10298** - Exploring Dreams, 134 - **UVa 10299** - The Dance of Shadows, 134 - **UVa 10300** - Pathways of Serenity, 134 - **UVa 10301** - Comfort Finds You, 134 - **UVa 10302** - Hidden Treasures, 134 - **UVa 10303** - Steps in Unison, 134 - **UVa 10304** - Echoes of the Past, 134 - **UVa 10305** - Patterns of Existence, 134 - **UVa 10306** - Embracing the Future, 134 - **UVa 10307** - A Symphony of Thoughts, 134 - **UVa 10308** - In the Wake of Joy, 134 - **UVa 10309** - Tales from the Heart, 134 - **UVa 10310** - The Bridge to Tomorrow, 134 - **UVa 10311** - The Alarm Has Sounded, 134 - **UVa 10312** - Beyond the Darkness, 134 - **UVa 10313** - A Journey Without End, 134 - **UVa 10314** - Our Eternal Promise, 134 - **UVa 10315** - Light in the Abyss, 134 - **UVa 10316** - The Path Forward, 134 - **UVa 10317** - Weaving New Connections, 134 - **UVa 10318** - Together We Rise, 134 - **UVa 10319** - The Weight of Wonder, 134 - **UVa 10320** - Embracing Change, 134 - **UVa 10321** - Steps to Transformation, 134 - **UVa 10322** - Letting Go, 134 - **UVa 10323** - Writing Our Future, 134 ``` #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 35 Context: # 1.4 Chapter Notes This and subsequent chapters are supported by many text books (see Figure 1.4 in the previous page) and internet resources. Here are some additional references: - To improve your typing skill as mentioned in Tip 1, you may want to play lots of typing games that are available online. - Tip 2 is an adaptation from the introduction text in USACO training gateway [29]. - More details about Tip 3 can be found in many C++ books, e.g., Chapter 15, 17, or [3]. - Online resources for Tip 3: - [http://www.geeksforgeeks.com](http://www.geeksforgeeks.com) - [http://www.asi.edu.cn/tech/stl/](http://www.asi.edu.cn/tech/stl/) for C++ STL. - [http://java.sun.com/docs/ docs/api](http://java.sun.com/docs/docs/api) for Java API. - For more insights to better testing (Tip 5). - A little note about software engineering books may be worth trying. - There are many other online judges apart from those mentioned in Tip 6, e.g.: - POJ [http://poj.openjudge.cn/](http://poj.openjudge.cn/) - TJO [http://tju.edu.cn/tjo/](http://tju.edu.cn/tjo/) - ZOJ [http://acm.zju.edu.cn/onlinejudge/](http://acm.zju.edu.cn/onlinejudge/) - UVA [http://uva.onlinejudge.org/](http://uva.onlinejudge.org/) For a more regarding topic context (Tip 7), read [1]. In this chapter, we have introduced the world of competitive programming to you. However, you cannot say that you are a competitive programmer if you can only solve Ad Hoc problems in every programming contest. Therefore, we hope that you can enjoy the ride and continue reading and learning the earlier chapters of this book, substantially. Once you have finished reading this book, re-read it one more time. On the second round, attempt the various written exercises and the 1198 programming entries as many as possible. There are 149 UVa ( + 11 others) programming exercises discussed in this chapter. (Only 34 in the first edition, a 371% increase.) There are 19 pages in this chapter. (Only 13 in the first edition, a 696% increase.) #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 237 Context: ```markdown ## Exercise 5.5.7.1 Statement 2 and 4 are not valid. The other 3 are valid. # Chapter 6 ## Exercise 6.21 In C, a string is stored as an array of characters terminated by null, for example `char str[30] = "Hello, world!";`. It is a good practice to declare any array slightly bigger than required to avoid "off by one" errors. To read the input line by line and concatenate them, use an input string like `string buf;`, then use `get(line);` or `getline(buf)`. Here is an example in string.h for string library: ```c size_t strlen(const char* str); ``` We append a space to the last word from one line if not accidentally combined with the first word of the next line. We keep repeating this process until `strlen(line) == 0`. ## Exercise 6.22 Finding a substring in a relatively short string (i.e., the standard string library, provided as a user binary function). We can use the `strstr` function, but no NULL list is found as in pod. If there are multiple possible substrings, we can use `strchr` to check if `substring` is at the beginning of the string or `strstr` to find the index of the first occurrence of substring within the string. ## Exercise 6.23 In many string processing tasks, we are required to iterate through every character in context. To store the characters in `std::vector`, we can use `toLower()` and `toUpper()` in C++ to convert a character to lower and upper case respectively. ## Exercise 6.24 Using `std::string` to tokenize strings is an alternative. We can then use STL's `string::find` to extract words. When looking for a particular character, we can use: ```c++ size_t pos = str.find("character"); ``` And if found, apply the necessary functions. ## Exercise 6.41 and Exercise 6.42 Run our sample code. Exercise 6.41 and Exercise 6.42: Regarding string alignment problems, read the problem statement and see what is the required cost for each: mismatch, insert, and delete. Adapt the algorithm accordingly. ``` #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 43 Context: 6.5.REMARKS316.5RemarksOneofthemainlimitationsoftheNBclassifieristhatitassumesindependencebe-tweenattributes(ThisispresumablythereasonwhywecallitthenaiveBayesianclassifier).Thisisreflectedinthefactthateachclassifierhasanindependentvoteinthefinalscore.However,imaginethatImeasurethewords,“home”and“mortgage”.Observing“mortgage”certainlyraisestheprobabilityofobserving“home”.Wesaythattheyarepositivelycorrelated.Itwouldthereforebemorefairifweattributedasmallerweightto“home”ifwealreadyobservedmortgagebecausetheyconveythesamething:thisemailisaboutmortgagesforyourhome.Onewaytoobtainamorefairvotingschemeistomodelthesedependenciesex-plicitly.However,thiscomesatacomputationalcost(alongertimebeforeyoureceiveyouremailinyourinbox)whichmaynotalwaysbeworththeadditionalaccuracy.Oneshouldalsonotethatmoreparametersdonotnecessarilyimproveaccuracybecausetoomanyparametersmayleadtooverfitting.6.6TheIdeaInaNutshellConsiderFigure??.Wecanclassifydatabybuildingamodelofhowthedatawasgenerated.ForNBwefirstdecidewhetherwewillgenerateadata-itemfromclassY=0orclassY=1.GiventhatdecisionwegeneratethevaluesforDattributesindependently.Eachclasshasadifferentmodelforgeneratingattributes.Clas-sificationisachievedbycomputingwhichmodelwasmorelikelytogeneratethenewdata-point,biasingtheoutcometowardstheclassthatisexpectedtogeneratemoredata. #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 12 Context: # Convention There are a lot of C++ codes shown in this book. If they appear, they will be written using this font. Many of them use typedefs, structs, or macros that are commonly used by competitive programmers to speed up the coding time. In the short section, we list some relevant examples. Java support has been increased substantially in the second edition of this book. This book uses such styles as, of now, does not support macros and typedefs. ```cpp // Suppress some compilation warning messages (only for VC++ users) #define _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE // Shortcut for "common" data types in containers typedef long long int; // comments are made with code typedef pair pii; // are aligned to the right like this typedef vector vi; typedef vector vll; #define INF 1000000000 // 1 billion, safer than 2B for Floyd Warshall's // Common master settings // memset(arr, 0, sizeof(arr)); // initialize DP memoization table with -1 // memset(arr, 0, sizeof(arr)); // to clear array of integers // Note that we abandon the usage of "RHF" and "RHF" is the second edition // to reduce the confusion encountered by new programmers The following shortcuts are frequently used in our C/C++ codes in this book: ```cpp // Example: // m = a + b; // to simplify; if (a) or b; else = c; // index = (index + 1) % k; // from index; if (index >= n) index = 0; // index = (index - 1 + n) % n; // from index; if (index < 0) index = index + n; // arr = (arr - (double)0.5); // for rounding to nearest integer ``` We frequently use this min/max shortcut. ```cpp // Some codes used short circuit & (AND) and || (OR) ``` # Problem Categorization As of 1 August 2011, Steven and Felix combined have solved 1502 UVA problems (c 17% of active problems). About 118 of them are around classic and computational problems in the book. These problems are categorized according to a "hard vs easy" criterion. If a problem is classified into two or more categories, it will be placed in the category with the lowest number. The most difficult problems "easy vs difficult" or "easy vs hard" will be color coded as a red easy. Despite the problem types, you simply need to assess which problems you want to solve. What can be extreme is this; if you want to limit yourself to easy, you can mark yourself under the easier problems. In case you are interested in the index at the back of this book and the index items are sorted by problems, this section should clarify the relationship between the index numbers and the topics in this book that cover your need to understand the nature of these problems (and their required data structures). Unlike those that are nested by nature, "The diversity" problem-solving skill, it is a must try; we limit ourselves to choose maximum 3 highlights per category. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 8 Context: viPREFACE #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 61 Context: ``` ## 3.2 COMPLETE SEARCH ### © Steven & Foltz 1. **UVa 1101** - Necker (intro from math, maintain function) 2. **UVa 1164** - Chocopie Bear (try all possible bears from 2 to 36) 3. **UVa 1095** - Menstrual Product (input is small) 4. **UVa 1021** - Open Credit Score (an easy issue) 5. **UVa 1127** - The Final Frontier (iterative complete search + sorting) 6. **UVa 1142** - The Bines (use next_permutation, find one possibility from 6) 7. **UVa 1152** - Simple Equations (x = nested loop with priming) 8. **UVa 1171** - Expert Counter (catalan’s) 9. **LA 840** - String Popping (Daisy) ### Iterations (Challenge O'pay) 1. **UVa 1060** - Cake cutting (for all, similar problem to UVa 1159) 2. **UVa 608** - Del Taco Riddle (garnish 2² combinations, pretty unusual ones) 3. **UVa 675** - Count the Ways: (2-based → 3-based topology) 4. **UVa 2073** - Stacks-Man (a useful base was needed to solve this problem) 5. **UVa 2124** - Climbing Up (easy usage, inc free course) 6. **UVa 2170** - Chord Length (using iter to solve) 7. **UVa 2072** - (3/42 sp/Ben Crews... use (2/3) instead, ignore hazards) 8. **UVa 1156** - Genius timing (polling): 2-3 tested paths with distance) 9. **UVa 1160** - Strings Condition (follow-up allows multiple thread instances) 10. **UVa 1193** - T Roman Palindrome (try all 2**b brute forced) 11. **UVa 1131** - Stid Grate (solve by adding brute force for (3b) + make it level bounded) 12. **UVa 1194** - Arranging (to special loop) ### Recursive Backtracking (The Easier Ones) 1. **UVa 1098** - The Island Source (8 queens chess problem) 2. **UVa 1097** - Dual Permutation without cycling (work with strings) 3. **UVa 1096** - Frog Leap (easy map) 4. **UVa 1125** - Tough Trouble (5) 5. **UVa 1094** - The Hummus Dilemma (backtrack) 6. **UVa 1076** - The Greatest Blow (and play around with the sorting) 7. **UVa 1078** - The Newspaper Game (have to print all solutions with backtracking) 8. **UVa 1069** - (testing target): dive with (b) + test with DNP-2 input 9. **UVa 1100** - Rainy Neighborhood (backtracking) 10. **UVa 1181** - The Problem with the Queen’s (similar to UVa 1152, tree expend) 11. **UVa 1159** - Tidy Akimbo Big, Ignoring (all, one could trial, take the max) 12. **UVa 1082** - Backing out to the Squeeze 13. **UVa 1091** - The Problem with the Queens** (backtrack involving strings) 14. **LA 834** - String Popping (Daisy) ``` #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 30 Context: # 1.3 GETTING STARTED: THE AD HOC PROBLEMS © Steven & Felix - **The Josephus-type problems** The Josephus problem is a classic problem where there are people numbered from 1, 2, ..., n, standing in a circle. Every nth person is to be executed. Only the last remaining person will be spared; this person is said to have been saved (Josephus). The smaller versions of this problem can be solved with plain brute force. The larger ones require better solutions. - **Problems related to Palindrome or Anagram** There are also classic problems: **Palindrome** is a word (or eventually a sequence) that can be read the same way in either direction. The most straightforward strategy to check if a word is a palindrome is to loop from the first character to the middle and check if the first matches the last, the second matches the second last, and so on. Example: `A man, a plan, a canal: Panama` is a palindrome. **Anagram** is a rearrangement of letters of a word (or phrase) to get another word (or phrase) using all of the original letters. The common strategy to think of two words as anagrams is to sort the letters of the words and compare the sorted letters. Example word: `eat`, `tea`, and `ate`. After sorting, both `aet` and `ate` would match — so, they are anagrams. - **Interesting Real Life Problems** This is one of the most interesting categories of problems in UVA online judge. We believe that some of the real-life problems are more interesting for those who are new to computer science. Don't feel shy if the new programs to solve real problems is an extra motivation. Who knows, you may also learn some new interesting knowledge from the problem description! ## Ad Hoc problems involving Time Date, time, calendar, etc. All these are also real life problems. As said earlier, people usually get extra motivation when dealing with real-life problems. Some of these problems will be math, or you can solve them using the Java Georgina/Calculator class as it has lots of library functions to deal with time. - **Just AI** Even after efforts to establish the Ad Hoc problems, there are still many others that are not bound to fit into a specific sub-category. The problems listed in this subsection are such problems. The solution for the next problems is to simply follow/imitate the problem description patterns. ## Ad Hoc problems in other chapters There are numerous other Ad Hoc problems which spread to other chapters, especially because they require more knowledge on top of basic programming skills. - Ad Hoc problems involving the usage of basic linear data structures, especially arrays are listed in Section 2.1. - Ad Hoc problems involving mathematical computations are listed in Section 5.2. - Ad Hoc problems involving processing of strings are listed in Section 6.3. - Ad Hoc problems involving basic geometry skills are listed in Section 7.2. #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 27 Context: # 1.2 TIPS TO BE COMPETITIVE **Steven & Felix** 1. For multiple test cases, you should include two identical sample test cases consecutively. Both must output the same unknown correct results. This is to check whether you have forgotten to initialize some variables, which will be easily identified if the first instance produces the correct output but the second does not. 2. Your test cases must include edge cases. 3. Increase the input size incrementally up to the maximum possible stated in problem description. Sometimes your program works for small input sizes, but behaves wrongly (or slowly) when input size increases. Check for overflow, out of bounds, and other flaws. 4. Your test cases must include tricky corner cases. Think like the problem setter! Identify cases that are the "hiddens" in the problem description. Some typical corners are: - \( N = 0 \) - \( N = 1 \) - extreme values and similar problems. 5. Do not assume that input will always be nicely formatted if the problem description does not say so (especially for faulty white problem). Try experimenting in the edge cases (space, tab, new line characters). Check thoroughly your code is able to read in the values correctly too. 6. Finally, generate large random test cases to see if your code continues to run fast and give reasonably correct outputs. The constraints is there to verify here—it is theirs to verify that your code meets during the time limit. --- However, after all these steps, you may still get non-AC responses. In ICPC, you and your team can actually see the judges’ response to determine your next action. With more experience in such contexts, you will be able to make better judgments. See the next exercises: ### Exercise 1.2.4: Standings Judging (Mastig in ICPC rating) 1. You receive a WA response for a very easy problem. What should you do? - (a) Abandon this problem and do another. - (b) Analyze the performance of your solution (optimize the code or use a better algorithm). - (c) Trace test cases and find the bug. 2. You receive a TLE response for an O(N^2) solution. However, maximum N is just 100. What should you do? - (a) Abandon this problem and do another. - (b) Analyze the performance of your solution (optimize the code or use better algorithm). - (c) Traipse back to test cases and find the bug. 3. You receive an RTE response. Your code runs OK in your machine. What should you do? - (a) Analyze the problem with WA code, switch to that other problem in attempt to solve another problem. - (b) (ICPC): Print the WA code. Ask two other team members to scrutinize the code of their solution. What should you (your team) do? **To run 2010-2011 contestants have inflated ideas that they can easily check the correctness of their riddled code. The exercise in the notice is more towards ICPC's regard.** #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 231 Context: ```markdown // C code for question 7, assuming all necessary includes have been done int main() { int a[20], n = 20; for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) { scanf("%d", &a[i]); } for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) { for (int j = i + 1; j < n; j++) { if (a[i] < a[j]) { printf("%d ", a[j]); // this is part of set } } } printf("\n"); } # Exercise 1.2.4: Answers for situation judging are in bold: 1. You receive a WA response for a very easy problem. What should you do? - **(a)** Abandon this problem and go another. **(not ok, your team will lose out).** - **(b)** Improve the performance of your solution. **(not useful).** - **(c)** Create tricky test cases and find the bug. **(the most logical answer).** - **(d)** In ICPC, ask another coder in your team to re-do this problem. **(this is a logical answer; this can work although your team will lose precious penalty time).** 2. You receive a TLE response for your O(N) solution. However, maximum N is just 100. What should you do? - **(a)** Abandon this problem and go another. **(not ok, your team will lose out).** - **(b)** Improve the performance of your solution. **(not ok, we should have gotten TLE with an O(N) algorithm if N <= 200).** - **(c)** Create tricky test cases and find the bug. **(this is the answer; another newbie program is accidentally trapped in an infinite loop in some test cases).** 3. Follow up question (see question 2 above): What if maximum N = 10,000? - **(a)** If N = 10, you have two choices but to improve the performance of the algorithm or use a faster algorithm.** 4. You receive an RTE response. Your code runs OK on your machine. What should you do? - **(a)** Check to see if there are any unusual conditions. The issue may be with your inputs or outputs responding to specific edge and corner cases. - **(b)** Look for cases that can possibly cause your code to end up with these situations. **(Strictly, must check for multiple AC codes).** 5. Be sure to go before the end of the contest. You may have 1 WA code and 1 fresh idea for another problem. What should you (your team) do? - **(a)** Abandon the problem with WA code; ask your team members to scrutinize the printed code carefully. This way, you can also ask that problem is attempted to solve TWO more issues. - **(b)** Go to do the other problem in an attempt to solve problem faster; find the best way to code this only within less than 30 minutes. - **(c)** Try to help your team to find other bugs in the code. **(this is how you believe that you could help your teammates; you can find the bug for the WA code by looking at the printed code).** ``` #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 3 Context: ContentsPrefaceiiiLearningandIntuitionvii1DataandInformation11.1DataRepresentation.........................21.2PreprocessingtheData.......................42DataVisualization73Learning113.1InaNutshell.............................154TypesofMachineLearning174.1InaNutshell.............................205NearestNeighborsClassification215.1TheIdeaInaNutshell........................236TheNaiveBayesianClassifier256.1TheNaiveBayesModel......................256.2LearningaNaiveBayesClassifier.................276.3Class-PredictionforNewInstances.................286.4Regularization............................306.5Remarks...............................316.6TheIdeaInaNutshell........................317ThePerceptron337.1ThePerceptronModel.......................34i #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 2 Context: # CONTENTS © Steven & Eric ## 3 Algorithms ### 3.1 Interesting Usages of Binary Search ### 3.2 Geometry #### 3.2.1 Examples ### 3.3 Dynamic Programming #### 3.3.1 DP Illustration ### 3.4 Classical Economics ### 3.5 Non Classical Examples ### 3.6 Chapter Notes ## 4 Graph ### 4.1 Overview and Motivation ### 4.2 Graph Traversal #### 4.2.1 Depth First Search (DFS) #### 4.2.2 Breadth First Search (BFS) #### 4.2.3 Finding Connected Components (in an Uninhibited Graph) #### 4.2.4 Flood Fill - Labeling/Closing the Connected Components #### 4.2.5 Topological Sort of a Directed Acyclic Graph #### 4.2.6 Graphs Edge Property Check via DFS Spanning Tree #### 4.2.7 Finding Articulation Points and Bridges (in an Undirected Graph) #### 4.2.8 Finding Strongly Connected Components (in a Directed Graph) ### 4.3 Minimum Spanning Tree #### 4.3.1 Overview and Motivation #### 4.3.2 Kruskal's Algorithm #### 4.3.3 Prim's Algorithm #### 4.3.4 Other Useful Algorithms ### 4.4 Single-Source Shortest Paths #### 4.4.1 SSP on Unweighted Graph #### 4.4.2 SSP on Weighted Graph #### 4.4.3 SSP on Graph with Negative Weight Cycle ### 4.5 All-Pairs Shortest Paths #### 4.5.1 Overview and Motivation #### 4.5.2 Implementation of Floyd Warshall’s DP Solution #### 4.5.3 Other Applications ### 4.6 Minimum Spanning Trees #### 4.6.1 Overview and Motivation #### 4.6.2 Reed-Kellner's Method #### 4.6.3 Remarkable Applications ### 4.7 Special Graphs #### 4.7.1 Directed Acyclic Graph #### 4.7.2 Tree #### 4.7.3 Bipartite Graph ### 4.8 Chapter Notes ## 5 Mathematics ### 5.1 Overview and Motivation ### 5.2 Hard Job Mathematics Problems ### 5.3 Basic Structure Classes #### 5.3.1 Base Features #### 5.3.2 Base Features #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 55 Context: Chapter3ProblemSolvingParadigmsIfallyouhaveisahammer,everythinglookslikeanail—AbrahamMaslow,19623.1OverviewandMotivationInthischapter,wehighlightfourproblemsolvingparadigmscommonlyusedtoattackproblemsinprogrammingcontests,namelyCompleteSearch,Divide&Conquer,Greedy,andDynamicProgramming.BothIOIandICPCcontestantsneedtomasteralltheseproblemsolvingparadigmssothattheycanattackthegivenproblemwiththeappropriate‘tool’,ratherthan‘hammering’everyproblemwiththebrute-forcesolution(whichisclearlynotcompetitive).Ouradvicebeforeyoustartreading:Donotjustrememberthesolutionsfortheproblemsdiscussedinthischapter,butremembertheway,thespiritofsolvingthoseproblems!3.2CompleteSearchCompleteSearch,alsoknownasbruteforceorrecursivebacktracking,isamethodforsolvingaproblembysearching(upto)theentiresearchspacetoobtaintherequiredsolution.Inprogrammingcontests,acontestantshoulddevelopaCompleteSearchsolutionwhenthereisclearlynocleveralgorithmavailable(e.g.theproblemofenumeratingallpermutationsof{0,1,2,...,N−1},whichclearlyrequiresO(N!)operations)orwhensuchcleveralgorithmsexist,butoverkill,astheinputsizehappenstobesmall(e.g.theproblemofansweringRangeMinimumQueryasinSection2.3.3butonastaticarraywithN≤100–solvablewithanO(N)loop).InICPC,CompleteSearchshouldbethefirstsolutiontobeconsideredasitisusuallyeasytocomeupwiththesolutionandtocode/debugit.Rememberthe‘KISS’principle:KeepItShortandSimple.Abug-freeCompleteSearchsolutionshouldneverreceiveWrongAnswer(WA)responseinprogrammingcontestsasitexplorestheentiresearchspace.However,manyprogrammingproblemsdohavebetter-than-Complete-Searchsolutions.ThusaCompleteSearchsolutionmayreceiveaTimeLimitExceeded(TLE)verdict.Withproperanalysis,youcandeterminewhichisthelikelyoutcome(TLEversusAC)beforeattemptingtocodeanything(Table1.4inSection1.2.2isagoodgauge).IfCompleteSearchcanlikelypassthetimelimit,thengoahead.ThiswillthengiveyoumoretimetoworkontheharderproblemswhereCompleteSearchistooslow.InIOI,weusuallyneedbetterproblemsolvingtechniquesasCompleteSearchsolutionsareusu #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 255 Context: ``` # INDEX #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 15 Context: # List of Figures 1.1 Illustration of UVa 10011 - Forming Quiz Teams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1.2 UVa Online Judge and ACM ICPC Live Archive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 1.3 USACO Training Gateway and Sphere Online Judge . . . . . . . . . . . 18 1.4 Some references that inspired the authors to write this book . . . . . . 26 2.1 Examples of Bar (Left) and (Max) Heap (Right) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 2.2 Example of Various Graph Representations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 2.3 Uniquely-Fixed Disjoint Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 2.4 Significant Tree Array (n = 8, 7, 5, 3, 1, 10) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 2.5 Updating Array A to T (3, 1, 5, 10, 10) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 2.6 Example of a Permutation Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 3.1 8-Queens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 3.2 UVa 10026 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 3.3 Visualization of UVa 470 - Robots on Ice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 3.4 My Ancestor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 3.5 Visualization of UVa 410 - State Balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 3.6 UVa 410 - Observation 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 3.7 UVa 410 - Observation 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 3.8 UVa 10432 - Weather Grass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 3.9 Bottom-Up DP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 3.10 Longest Increasing Subsequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 3.11 Coin Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 3.12 TSP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 4.1 Sample Graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 4.2 Examination of BFS (from UVa 336 [26]) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 4.3 Example of Depth on DAG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 4.4 Animation of DFS with Dots and Edges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 4.5 Introducing Two More DFS Attributes: `first` and `last` . . . . . . 85 4.6 Finding Bridges, Pivots, and Strongly Connected Components (SCC) . . 87 4.7 An Example of an MST Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 4.8 Animating Kruskal's Algorithm for an MST Problem . . . . . . . . . . 90 4.9 Form to edit P's: `MST`, `Maximum` `ST`, `Partial Minimum` `ST`, `MST Forest` . . . . . . . . . 91 4.10 Finding the Second Best Spanning Tree from the MST . . . . . . . 87 4.11 2-Vertex Weight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 4.12 Beldham Ford's can detect the presence of negative cycle (from UVa 558 [28]) . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 55 Context: 8.1.THENON-SEPARABLECASE43thataresituatedinthesupporthyperplaneandtheydeterminethesolution.Typi-cally,thereareonlyfewofthem,whichpeoplecalla“sparse”solution(mostα’svanish).Whatwearereallyinterestedinisthefunctionf(·)whichcanbeusedtoclassifyfuturetestcases,f(x)=w∗Tx−b∗=XiαiyixTix−b∗(8.17)AsanapplicationoftheKKTconditionswederiveasolutionforb∗byusingthecomplementaryslacknesscondition,b∗= XjαjyjxTjxi−yi!iasupportvector(8.18)whereweusedy2i=1.So,usinganysupportvectoronecandetermineb,butfornumericalstabilityitisbettertoaverageoverallofthem(althoughtheyshouldobviouslybeconsistent).Themostimportantconclusionisagainthatthisfunctionf(·)canthusbeexpressedsolelyintermsofinnerproductsxTixiwhichwecanreplacewithker-nelmatricesk(xi,xj)tomovetohighdimensionalnon-linearspaces.Moreover,sinceαistypicallyverysparse,wedon’tneedtoevaluatemanykernelentriesinordertopredicttheclassofthenewinputx.8.1TheNon-SeparablecaseObviously,notalldatasetsarelinearlyseparable,andsoweneedtochangetheformalismtoaccountforthat.Clearly,theproblemliesintheconstraints,whichcannotalwaysbesatisfied.So,let’srelaxthoseconstraintsbyintroducing“slackvariables”,ξi,wTxi−b≤−1+ξi∀yi=−1(8.19)wTxi−b≥+1−ξi∀yi=+1(8.20)ξi≥0∀i(8.21)Thevariables,ξiallowforviolationsoftheconstraint.Weshouldpenalizetheobjectivefunctionfortheseviolations,otherwisetheaboveconstraintsbecomevoid(simplyalwayspickξiverylarge).PenaltyfunctionsoftheformC(Piξi)k 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4CHAPTER1.DATAANDINFORMATION1.2PreprocessingtheDataAsmentionedintheprevioussection,algorithmsarebasedonassumptionsandcanbecomemoreeffectiveifwetransformthedatafirst.Considerthefollowingexample,depictedinfigure??a.Thealgorithmweconsistsofestimatingtheareathatthedataoccupy.Itgrowsacirclestartingattheoriginandatthepointitcontainsallthedatawerecordtheareaofcircle.Inthefigurewhythiswillbeabadestimate:thedata-cloudisnotcentered.Ifwewouldhavefirstcentereditwewouldhaveobtainedreasonableestimate.Althoughthisexampleissomewhatsimple-minded,therearemany,muchmoreinterestingalgorithmsthatassumecentereddata.Tocenterdatawewillintroducethesamplemeanofthedata,givenby,E[X]i=1NNXn=1Xin(1.1)Hence,foreveryattributeiseparately,wesimpleaddalltheattributevalueacrossdata-casesanddividebythetotalnumberofdata-cases.Totransformthedatasothattheirsamplemeaniszero,weset,X′in=Xin−E[X]i∀n(1.2)ItisnoweasytocheckthatthesamplemeanofX′indeedvanishes.Anillustra-tionoftheglobalshiftisgiveninfigure??b.Wealsoseeinthisfigurethatthealgorithmdescribedabovenowworksmuchbetter!Inasimilarspiritascentering,wemayalsowishtoscalethedataalongthecoordinateaxisinordermakeitmore“spherical”.Considerfigure??a,b.Inthiscasethedatawasfirstcentered,buttheelongatedshapestillpreventedusfromusingthesimplisticalgorithmtoestimatetheareacoveredbythedata.Thesolutionistoscaletheaxessothatthespreadisthesameineverydimension.Todefinethisoperationwefirstintroducethenotionofsamplevariance,V[X]i=1NNXn=1X2in(1.3)wherewehaveassumedthatthedatawasfirstcentered.Notethatthisissimilartothesamplemean,butnowwehaveusedthesquare.Itisimportantthatwehaveremovedthesignofthedata-cases(bytakingthesquare)becauseotherwisepositiveandnegativesignsmightcanceleachotherout.Byfirsttakingthesquare,alldata-casesfirstgetmappedtopositivehalfoftheaxes(foreachdimensionor #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 190 Context: # 6.7 Chapter Notes The material about String Alignment (Edit Distance), Longest Common Subsequence, Suffix Trees, and Suffix Arrays are originally from A/P Sung Wun Kin, Ken [36], School of Computing, National University of Singapore. The material from A/P Ken's lecture notes have since evolved from those incremental slides into the current open-source programming [1]. The section about basic string processing skills (Section 6.2) and the KMP string processing problem are born from our experience with string-related problems and techniques. The number of programming exercises presented here is about three quarters of all string processing problems discussed this chapter. We are aware that these are not the typical ICPC problems, but due to some personal requests, we have decided to include a section on the String Matching problem (Section 6.4). We discussed the implementation of the Knuth-Morris-Pratt (KMP) algorithm. The KMP implementation will be useful for you here to modify basic string matching routines if you still need fast performance. We believe KMP is fast enough to justify the effort, since finding a string for pattern matching wouldn't require a large string for speed testing. **C/ C++ String and Java String Index:** In the event that finding matching algorithms are introduced, consider the following simple and more expressive syntax, as shown in a few examples presented in Section 6.5. There are several interesting exercises that discuss the variations of these two problems. The practical implementation of the Suffix Array (Section 6.6) is inspired mainly from the article “Suffix arrays— a programming construct approach” by [6]. We have integrated an additional symmetrical perspective which was left out of writing Suffix Array implementations, compared with those in the first edition. It is a good note to remember that exercises listed in that section although they are not that many. This is an important remark that you will not find on other books. These exercises can be found in Chapter 5 as well. Similar exercises can be found in Chapter 3, but these are beyond simple string processing problems. Additionally, the Shortest Common Superstring Problem, Burrows-Wheeler Transformation Algorithm, Suffix Automaton, and RADIX (more efficient Trie data structure), etc. There are 117 UML ( + 12 others) programming exercises discussed in this chapter. - **(only 14 in the first edition, a 18% increase).** - There are 24 pages in this chapter. - **(only 10 in the first edition, a 19% increase).** #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 56 Context: # 3.2 COMPLETE SEARCH In this section, we give two examples of this simple yet challenging paradigm and discuss a few tips to give Complete Search solvers a better chance to pass the required Time Limit. ## 3.2.1 Examples We show two examples of Complete Search: one that is implemented iteratively and one that is implemented recursively (backtracking). We will also discuss a few algorithm design choices to make sense “impossible” cases become possible. ### Iterative Complete Search: UVa 725 - Division **Abstact problem statement:** Find and display all pairs of 5-digit numbers that between them use the digits 0 through 9 exactly once, such that the first number divided by the second is equal to an integer, \( \frac{n_1}{n_2} = \frac{d_1}{d_2} \), where each letter represents a different digit. The first digit of one of the numbers is allowed to be zero, e.g., for \( n_1 = 62594 \) and \( n_2 = 70326 \). A quick analysis shows that \( n_1 \) can only range from 01234 to 98765, with over 100K possibilities. For each digit \( i \), we can get above from \( n_1 \) and then check if all digits are allowed. 100K equations are small. Thus, iterative Complete Search is feasible. #### Exercise 3.2.1.1 What is the advantage of brainstorming through this problem and through brute-force? #### Exercise 3.2.1.2 Checking digit \( n_1 \) from 01234 to 98765 is overly artificial. There is a smaller and superior solution than 98765. What is the better upperbound value? #### Exercise 3.2.1.3 Solve UVa 471 - Magic Numbers which is very similar to this example. ### Recursive Backtracking: UVa 750 - 8 Queens Chess Problem **Abstact problem statement:** In this (standard) 8 x 8 board, it is possible to place eight queens so that no two queens attack each other. This means that if two queens are positioned in the row \( i \) and column \( j \), they should not be on the same row or in any of the same diagonal positions. Display the position in a legible format. The last possible arrangement is the result from the previous section. For example, without losing any generality, the valid configuration is ``` . Q . . . . . . . . . . Q . . . . . . . . . Q . . . . . . . . Q Q . . . . . . . . . Q . . . . . . . . . . Q . . . . . Q . . . . ``` Figure 3.1 - 8-Queens Problem We provide code in the next page below. If you have parsed a recursive backtracking solution before, please scrutinize it and reproduce it using your own coding style. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 87 Context: A.1.LAGRANGIANSANDALLTHAT75Hence,the“sup”and“inf”canbeinterchangedifstrongdualityholds,hencetheoptimalsolutionisasaddle-point.Itisimportanttorealizethattheorderofmaximizationandminimizationmattersforarbitraryfunctions(butnotforconvexfunctions).Trytoimaginea“V”shapesvalleywhichrunsdiagonallyacrossthecoordinatesystem.Ifwefirstmaximizeoveronedirection,keepingtheotherdirectionfixed,andthenminimizetheresultweendupwiththelowestpointontherim.Ifwereversetheorderweendupwiththehighestpointinthevalley.Thereareanumberofimportantnecessaryconditionsthatholdforproblemswithzerodualitygap.TheseKarush-Kuhn-Tuckerconditionsturnouttobesuffi-cientforconvexoptimizationproblems.Theyaregivenby,∇f0(x∗)+Xiλ∗i∇fi(x∗)+Xjν∗j∇hj(x∗)=0(A.8)fi(x∗)≤0(A.9)hj(x∗)=0(A.10)λ∗i≥0(A.11)λ∗ifi(x∗)=0(A.12)Thefirstequationiseasilyderivedbecausewealreadysawthatp∗=infxLP(x,λ∗,ν∗)andhenceallthederivativesmustvanish.Thisconditionhasaniceinterpretationasa“balancingofforces”.Imagineaballrollingdownasurfacedefinedbyf0(x)(i.e.youaredoinggradientdescenttofindtheminimum).Theballgetsblockedbyawall,whichistheconstraint.Ifthesurfaceandconstraintisconvextheniftheballdoesn’tmovewehavereachedtheoptimalsolution.Atthatpoint,theforcesontheballmustbalance.Thefirsttermrepresenttheforceoftheballagainstthewallduetogravity(theballisstillonaslope).Thesecondtermrepresentsthere-actionforceofthewallintheoppositedirection.Theλrepresentsthemagnitudeofthereactionforce,whichneedstobehigherifthesurfaceslopesmore.Wesaythatthisconstraintis“active”.Otherconstraintswhichdonotexertaforceare“inactive”andhaveλ=0.ThelatterstatementcanbereadoffromthelastKKTconditionwhichwecall“complementaryslackness”.Itsaysthateitherfi(x)=0(theconstraintissaturatedandhenceactive)inwhichcaseλisfreetotakeonanon-zerovalue.However,iftheconstraintisinactive:fi(x)≤0,thenλmustvanish.Aswewillseesoon,theactiveconstraintswillcorrespondtothesupportvectorsinSVMs! #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 4 Context: # CONTENTS © Steven & Felix ## 7 2D Objects ### 7.1 2D Objects: Circles ........................................... 181 ### 7.2 2D Objects: Triangles ......................................... 183 ### 7.3 2D Objects: Quadrilaterals .................................... 185 ### 7.4 2D Objects: Spheres ........................................... 187 ### 7.5 2D Objects: Others ............................................ 187 ### 7.6 Polygons with Extra Properties ............................... 188 #### 7.6.1 Polygon Representation .................................. 188 #### 7.6.2 Parameter of a Polygon .................................. 189 #### 7.6.3 Area of a Polygon .......................................... 189 #### 7.6.4 Checking if a Point is Inside a Polygon ............ 190 #### 7.6.5 Cultivating a Polygon with a Straight Line .......... 190 #### 7.6.6 Finding the Convex Hull of a Set of Points ........ 191 #### 7.7 Divide and Conquer Revisited ............................. 192 ### 7.5 Chapter Notes .................................................... 192 ## 8 More Advanced Topics ### 8.1 Overview and Motivation ....................................... 197 ### 8.2 Problem Decomposition #### 8.2.1 Two Components: Binary Search the Answer and Other ... 197 #### 8.2.2 Two Components: SSSP and DP .......................... 198 #### 8.2.3 Two Components: Involving Graphs ..................... 199 #### 8.2.4 Two Components: Involving Mathematics ............. 199 #### 8.2.5 Three Components: Prune Factors, DP, Binary Search . 199 #### 8.2.6 Three Components: Complete Search, Binary Search, Greedy . 200 ### 8.3 More Advanced Search Techniques .......................... 203 #### 8.3.1 Informed Search A* ........................................ 203 #### 8.3.2 Depth Limited Search ....................................... 204 #### 8.3.3 Iterative Deepening A* (IDA*) .......................... 205 ### 8.4 Advanced Dynamic Programming Techniques .............. 207 #### 8.4.1 Emerging Technique: DP + Instruction ................. 207 #### 8.4.2 Classic Framework for Dynamic Programming .......... 208 #### 8.4.3 Theorem/Rule/Recipe/Superposition Problem .......... 209 #### 8.4.4 MILE/FILE: Better Size Representation! .................. 210 #### 8.4.5 Multiply Your Ops Per Parameter, Recursion! from Others! . 211 #### 8.4.6 Your Parameter Values Go Negative? Use Offset Technique . 212 ### 8.5 Chapter Notes .................................................... 213 ## A Hints/Brief Solutions ......................................... 225 ## B stunts ............................................................... 227 ## C Credits ............................................................ 227 ## D Plan for the Third Edition .................................... 228 Bibliography ............................................................... 229 #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 78 Context: # 3.5 DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING © Steven & Felix The LIS problem can be solved in output-sensitive \( O(n \log L) \) (where \( L \) is the length of the LIS) instead of \( O(n^2) \) by maintaining the LIS as it is updated and we can modify our algorithm's linking points to control the last value of the current LIS segment. The key strategy is to maintain each unique index as we maximize our conditions and size. - Initially, \( L = 0 \), we have \( A = (-\infty) \) - We can insert \( A[0] = 10 \) so that we have a longer LIS \( A = [-7, 10] \) - We can insert \( A[1] = 8 \) so that we have a longer LIS \( A = [-7, 8] \) - We can insert \( A[2] = 15 \) so that we have a longer LIS \( A = [-7, 8, 15] \) - For \( A[3] = 5 \), we can replace \( A[1] \) so that we have \( A = [-7, 5, 15] \) - For \( A[4] = 6 \), we can replace \( A[2] \) so that we have \( A = [-7, 5, 6] \) This process continues as \( A[5] = 3 \) so that we have a longer LIS \( A = [-7, 3, 6] \). Example code (Longest Increasing Subsequence): [GitHub](https://github.com/UVa/UVa231.java) ## 2. Max Sum Abstraction problem statement of UVA 108 - Maximum Sum: Given an \( n \times n \) ( \( 1 \leq n \leq 5 \times 10^5 \) ) square matrix of integers, extract from it a submatrix with the maximum sum. Example: The 4 x 4 matrix in (4.1 Table 3.3) below has a 3 x 2 submatrix with the lower-bound maximum sum of 15 (i.e., \( [5, 2, 3] \)). There is also another 4 x 3 submatrix with larger sum. | | | | | |---|---|---|---| | -1 | -2 | -3 | 4 | | -5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | | -9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | Table 3.3 UVa 108 - Maximum Sum Attacking this problem naïvely using brute force does not work as it needs \( O(n^6) \). For the problem, we can use \( O(n^3) \) algorithms to solve. ```python maxSum = -127*100 + 100; // the lowest possible value for this problem for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) { for (int j = 0; j < j; j++) { // starting point for (int b = 0; b < n; b++) { for (int d = j; d < j; d++) { // end point // the answer is here } } } } ``` The DP can also leverage on submatrices and its sum computation involves overlapping submatrices! #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 6 Context: # Preface This book is a must have for every competitive programmer to master during their middle phase of their programming career if they wish to take a leap forward from being just another ordinary coder to being among one of the top brightest programmers in the world. Typical readers of this book would be: 1. University students who are competing in the annual ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) and Regional Contests (including the World Finals). 2. Secondary or High School Students who are competing in the annual International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) [1] (including the National event). 3. Anyone who loves solving problems through competitive programming. There are numerous programming contests for those who are no longer eligible for ICPC like the TopCoder Open, Google CodeJam, International Problem Solving Contest (IPSC), etc. ## Prerequisites This book is not written for novice programmers. When we wrote this book, we sat it for readers who have basic knowledge in basic programming methodologies, familiar with at least one programming language (C/C++ - that is, preferably both), and have passed basic data structures and algorithms courses typically taught in the first year of Computer Science university curriculum. ## Specific to the ACM ICPC Contestants We trust that you cannot possibly win the ACM ICPC regional just by mastering the overall contents of this book. While we have included a lot of materials in this book, we are aware that for you to win the book can be more of a guide for you to learn, hone, and practice skills through solving challenges. Therefore, we have included a table that lists some of the further topics in future ICPC contests. ## Specific to the IOI Contestants Same preface as above but with this additional Table 1. This table shows a list of topics that are covered in the IOI syllabus [2]. You can skip these items until you enter in high school or during your country’s ACM ICPC tryouts. However, learning them all may be beneficial as some harder tasks in IOI may require some of these knowledges. | L-R: Daniel, Mr Cheong, Raymond, Steven, Zhan Xiong, Dr Roland, Chuang | #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 169 Context: 6.3 Ad Hoc String Processing Problems ===================================== Next, we continue our discussion with something light: the Ad Hoc string processing problems. They are programming and problem-solving challenges that require you to solve base programming skills and perhaps some basic string processing skills discussed in Section 6.2 earlier. We give a list of such Ad Hoc string processing problems with hints. These programming exercises have been further divided into subtopics. ### Cipher/Encode/Encrypt/Decode/Decrypt It is everyone's wish that their private digital communications are secure. That is, their (digital) messages can only be read by the intended recipients. Many programmers have been invited to first understand and solve these programming challenges, and it is important to define the problem inputs and outputs clearly and code it. Below, we say a bit about Computer Security/Cryptography by solving the problems. ### Frequency Count In this group of problems, the contestants are asked to count the frequency of a letter (say, base Direct Addressing Table) or a word (handle, the solution is acting as a balanced Binary Search Tree – the C++ STL map or TreeMap – or Hash table). Some of these problems are actually related to Cryptography (the previous sub-category). ### Input Parsing This group of problems is best for I/O contestants as it enforces the input of I/O tasks to be formatted as simple as possible. However, there is such restriction in IPC. Parsing problem range from simple form that can be dealt with modified regex syntax. For C/C++ contests, a common parsing involves using grammars that require recursive descent parser or Java Parsers class (Regular Expressions). ### Output Formatting Another group of problems that is also for I/O contestants. This time, the output is the problematic part. In an IPC problem, doing your best can render a safe output for you - the contestants. Practice your coding skills by solving these problems as you perform. ### String Comparison In this group of problems, the contestants are asked to compare strings with various criteria. This similarity is similar to the string matching problems in the next section, but these problems may include specialized functions. ### Ad Hoc These are other Ad Hoc string related problems that cannot be (or have not been) classified as one of the other subcategories above. Programming Exercises related to Ad Hoc String Processing: - **Cipher/Encode/Encrypt/Decode/Decrypt** - **UVA 0124 - Passwords** (decrypt the message) - **UVA 0125 - Hajj** (count the given alphabet) - **UVA 0126 - String Suffix** (the base format for anything cyclic) - **UVA 0141 - The Doctor** (with each character's ASCII value +7) - **UVA 0146 - UVa-146 - The Simons** (factor every integer) *Reference texts should stay much more about (below Note: REMOVED).* *Some checking/formatting problems can be solved with more care than code such as Count() or replicate().* #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 227 Context: # 8.5 Chapter Notes - **New, Advanced DP** 1. UVa 10961 - *Banners Rantalos* (the input constraint is at least 2) 2. UVa 10679 - *Stanford Letters* 3. UVa 10476 - *The Malasakan Marathon* (e.g., lit, minimal distance, try all) 4. UVa 10970 - *District Sequence for Jane Blighter* 5. UVa 10952 - *Stickers* (two bundles) 6. UVa 10653 - *Sticker Keepers* (or just possibly take in the real and DP¹²) 7. UVa 10141 - *Number Game* (do a number theory (modulo), backtracking²) 8. UVa 10154 - *Clumsy Console* (data is in bottom up) 9. UVa 10972 - *Playing Cards* (details to be filled) 10. UVa 10602 - *Dualization* (Grundy is fantastic) 11. UVa 11839 - *The Candyman’s Cow* (drop one parameter between a, b, or c) 12. UVa 11838 - *Exchange Rates* (maintain the best CAD and USD at any given day) 13. UVa 11835 - *Bridge Problem* (Turandot, DP on Tree) 14. UVa 11993 - *Minimum Winning* (Backwoods) 15. UVa 11907 - *Brute Force* (Bruteforce, DP on Tree) 16. UVa 11901 - *Forklift* (Backtracking) 17. UVa 11461 - *Digital Paths* (Algarithm) 18. UVa 11441 - *ACORN (Singapore)* (DP with discussion re/horn) 19. UVa 11443 - *Directed Paths (Algarithm)* 20. UVa 11460 - *Predecessor-Transit* (Algarithm, problem author Rick Halim) 21. UVa 11236 - *Virtual Transmitters (Algarithm)* (DP with 3 states) 22. UVa 11247 - *Articulation point* (Augmentaries) 23. UVa 11248 - *Multi-try* (Lanzieng, Game Theory, DP) 24. UVa 10979 - *Branching* (Forklift) 25. UVa 10703 - *Aerial Parking* (Pinball) 26. UVa 10700 - *The Islands (World Finalist Harbor10, Bionic TSP)* --- This chapter and the second edition of this book are here. After writing so much, we become more aware of the presence of more interesting techniques that we are not able to cover in the second edition of this book. Expect this chapter to be improved substantially in the final edition. --- To be continued... :) There are 52 UVa (plus 31 others) programming exercises discussed in this chapter. There are 15 pages in this chapter. - ¹DP is at least 2, but only the ones needed for looking at K sizes. - ²For each DP, you should select adjacent disjoint DP states (pos. k). - ³To review, first diagnose the degree conditions, and then, move to DP states (rough, pos. k) using the structures and decided labels. Dropping is, to the most beneficial one. #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 87 Context: Chapter4GraphWeAreAllConnected—HeroesTVSeries4.1OverviewandMotivationManyreal-lifeproblemscanbeclassifiedasgraphproblems.Somehaveefficientsolutions.Somedonotyethavethem.Inthisrelativelybigchapterwithlotsoffigures,wediscussgraphproblemsthatcommonlyappearinprogrammingcontests,thealgorithmstosolvethem,andthepracticalimplementationsofthesealgorithms.Wecovertopicsrangingfrombasicgraphtraversals,minimumspanningtree,shortestpaths,maximumflow,anddiscussgraphswithspecialproperties.Inwritingthischapter,weassumethatthereadersarealreadyfamiliarwiththefollow-inggraphterminologies:Vertices/Nodes,Edges,Un/Weighted,Un/Directed,In/OutDegree,Self-Loop/MultipleEdges(Multigraph)versusSimpleGraph,Sparse/Dense,Path,Cycle,Iso-latedversusReachableVertices,(Strongly)ConnectedComponent,Sub-Graph,CompleteGraph,Tree/Forest,Euler/HamiltonianPath/Cycle,DirectedAcyclicGraph,andBipartiteGraph.Ifyouencounteranyunfamiliarterm,pleasereadotherreferencebookslike[3,32](orbrowseWikipedia)andsearchforthatparticularterm.WealsoassumethatthereadershavereadvariouswaystorepresentgraphinformationthathavebeendiscussedearlierinSection2.3.1.Thatis,wewilldirectlyusethetermslike:AdjacencyMatrix,AdjacencyList,EdgeList,andimplicitgraphwithoutredefiningthem.PleasereviseSection2.3.1ifyouarenotfamiliarwiththesegraphdatastructures.OurresearchsofarongraphproblemsinrecentACMICPCregionalcontests(especiallyinAsia)revealsthatthereisatleastone(andpossiblymore)graphproblem(s)inanICPCproblemset.However,sincetherangeofgraphproblemsissobig,eachgraphproblemhasonlyasmallprobabilityofappearance.Sothequestionis“Whichonesdowehavetofocuson?”.Inouropinion,thereisnoclearanswerforthisquestion.IfyouwanttodowellinACMICPC,youhavenochoicebuttostudyallthesematerials.ForIOI,thesyllabus[10]restrictsIOItaskstoasubsetofmaterialmentionedinthischapter.ThisislogicalashighschoolstudentscompetinginIOIarenotexpectedtobewellversedwithtoomanyproblem-specificalgorithms.ToassiststhereadersaspiringtotakepartintheIOI,wewillmentionwhetheraparticularsectioninthi #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 218 Context: # 8.2 PROBLEM DECOMPOSITION ## 1. UVA 11292 - "Word Fence" (binary search the answer + bipartite matching) ## 2. UVA 11546 - "Wish" (binary search the answer + greedy) ## 3. UVA 12949 - "Extreme Shopping Plan" (binary search the answer + greedy) ## 4. UVA 13037 - "Icarus Maximum" (Transforming) ## 5. UVA 15000 - "Involuntary Stopper" (Roundabout = binary search + greedy) ## 6. UVA 15461 - "Cycles" (binary search + DFS) ## 7. Two Components - Including DP in Edge Sums 1. UVA 00637 - "Circular" (similar to UVA 587, speed up with DP image sum) 2. UVA 10837 - "Robust Prime" (need to DP Range Sum Query) 3. UVA 12022 - "Palindromic Subsequences" (need DP Range Sum Query) 4. UVA 13061 - "Cone of Silence" (DP) 5. UVA 12189 - "SSSQ" (need DP Range Sum Query) ## 8. Two Components - SSSQ and DP 1. UVA 11071 - "A Walk Through the Forest" (running nails in DAG; DP) 2. UVA 11540 - "Disarmingly Simple" (DFS != TSP; simplify DP for backtracking) 3. UVA 11603 - "Rats for Rent" (DFS for trees + DP; keep track of the back in a "TSP") 4. UVA 11604 - "The Last Column" (DP's output adds DAG's output) 5. UVA 11605 - "Mini-Backpacking" (DP's + 1) 6. UVA 12991 - "The Liar" (Rat's formula + total run with MST) 7. UVA 13034 - "The Final Leg" (Backtrack + DFS + Segment Tree) 8. UVA 13158 - "Adieu Rockclimbing" (Dynamic + best approach) ## 9. UVA 13654 - "Reduced Rockclimbing" (SUV/SOL; MCMB) ## 10. UVA 13815 - "Ban. Pulled Shots" (accepted bid, DAG, DP Segment Tree) ## 11. UVA 14656 - "Reminiscence" (PS, GC, LYC) ## 12. UVA 14658 - "Restore Tutorial" (discussed in this section) ## 13. UVA 11696 - "Recover Prime" (see footer for the complete section) ## 14. UVA 14450 - "A Careful Approach" (We will Place Sockets in this chapter) --- "We can use the abbreviating path algorithm to compute the MCMB (see Section 4.7). Define the DP for the length of the longest query between nodes (u, l). The second DP evaluates the prefix for the DP to provide an upper bound on that route." "First, you have to hard the BMG for B FAs and SCs." "First, renew primes from the list and apply and redo the greedy how you done search." #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 100 Context: # 4.3 Minimum Spanning Tree ## 4.3.1 Overview and Motivation **Motivating problem:** Given a connected, undirected, and weighted graph \( G = (V, E) \) as seen in Figure 4.9, select a subset of edges \( E' \subseteq E \) such that the graph \( G' = (V, E') \) constructed is minimal. To satisfy the connectivity criteria, edges of \( E' \) must connect all vertices (corners) in \( V \subseteq G \)—the spanning tree. Users can see Figure 4.9, illustrating the minimum spanning tree. This problem is called the Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) problem and has many practical applications. For example, we can address a problem of building road networks in many villages. The edges represent the potential roads linking the villages. The MST of this graph identifies the minimum cost routes that must be constructed. Several well-known algorithms solve this problem, including Prim's and Kruskal's, both of which are thoroughly covered in many CS textbooks [3, 12, 24, 31, 2, 3, 4]. ## 4.3.2 Kruskal's Algorithm Joseph Bernard Kruskal developed an algorithm that starts with \( E \) edges based on decreasing weight. This can be easily found in the edges in an EdList data structure (see Section 2.3) and defines the basic steps. The algorithm operates primarily by taking each edge in decreasing order of weight. ```c // Create a pair (u, v) = (weight, vertex of the edge) for (int i = 0; i < E; i++) { int a = EdList[i].first; // Get the first end of the edge int b = EdList[i].second; // Get the second end of the edge weight = EdList[i].weight; // Store: (a, b, weight) } // Sort edges, assuming EdList is sorted sort(EdList.begin(), EdList.end()); ``` ```c int mst_cost = 0; // Total cost for each edge for (each edge e) { if (isCycle(e)) { // If cycle exists, skip the edge } else { // Add the weight of e to MST mst_cost += weight(e); } } // Note: the number of disjoint sets must eventually be one for a valid MST printf("MST cost = %d (Kruskal's)", mst_cost); ``` #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 58 Context: # 3.2 COMPLETE SEARCH ## Steven & Felix You may want to tweak the "critical code" of your program first instead of painfully reducing the problem with a faster algorithm—which may not be trivial to design. Here are some tips that you may want to consider when designing your solution, especially a Complete Search solution, to give it a better chance of passing the Time Limit. ### Tip 1: Filtering versus Generating Programs that require lists of all candidate solutions and choose those that are correct (or remove the incorrect ones) are called "filters," e.g., the n-queens solver with O(N^2) time complexity and the drastic overhead to the TSP. Lists and filters programs are often very inefficient. Programs that typically build the solutions and immediately prune invalid partial solutions are called "generators," e.g., the improved n-queens solver with O(N) complexity plus diagonal checks. Usually, "generating" syntax is more restrictive. Generally, filters are easier to code but less clever. Do the math to see if a filter is good enough or if you need to create a generator. ### Tip 2: Prune Infeasible Search Space Early In generating solutions using recursive backtracking (see tip 1 above), we may encounter a partial solution that will never lead to a full solution. We can prune the search tree and explore other parts of the search space. For example, see the diagonal check in n-queens solvers. Suppose we have planned a queen at row 1, column 2—placing another queen at row 2, column 3 = 2 + 3 - 1 = 4, will conflict. If we continue placing another queen at row 2, we will cause a conflict. Combining this, partial solutions that never lead to a valid solution. Thus, we can prune the search space at this junction, constructing only valid positions of row[2] = {4, 5, 6, 7, 8} and so on. ### Tip 3: Utilize Symmetries Some problems have symmetries and we should try to exploit symmetries to reduce execution time! In the n-queens problem, there are 92 solutions that are only 12 unique (or fundamental) solutions, these are the solutions that are rotational and are unique transforms. In this problem, you can avoid generating more than the 12 unique solutions. Example: for N = 8, | Solution | Row | |----------|-----| | 1 | {7, 3, 1, 6, 2, 4, 8, 5} | | 2 | {7, 3, 1, 8, 5, 2, 4, 6} | is the abbreviated reflection of the last unique example. ### Tip 4: Pre-Calculation aka, Pre-Calculation Sometimes it is helpful to leverage other data structures that enable the fastest possible solution with minimal change to the structure of the program itself. This could be Pre-computation, which has its own memory space for time. However, this technique can be hard to manage because programming syntax is complex. If you are generating during the process, see the example above; since there can be very large N (for N = 8, there are only 92), as shown in the example, you may want to pre-calculate and reflect 12 unique solutions. This will aid in optimizing the performance of generating solutions. ### Tip 5: Try Solving the Problem Backwards Surprisingly, some context problems look far easier when solved "backwards" (from the idea definitely does not think as they are solved using a literal attack from the more obvious angle). By readying to process the data in reverse, you may find the solution isn't what you expected. *It is said that every program is doing most of its task in only about 10% of the code—the critical code.* #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 54 Context: 42CHAPTER8.SUPPORTVECTORMACHINESThetheoryofdualityguaranteesthatforconvexproblems,thedualprob-lemwillbeconcave,andmoreover,thattheuniquesolutionoftheprimalprob-lemcorrespondstottheuniquesolutionofthedualproblem.Infact,wehave:LP(w∗)=LD(α∗),i.e.the“duality-gap”iszero.Nextweturntotheconditionsthatmustnecessarilyholdatthesaddlepointandthusthesolutionoftheproblem.ThesearecalledtheKKTconditions(whichstandsforKarush-Kuhn-Tucker).Theseconditionsarenecessaryingeneral,andsufficientforconvexoptimizationproblems.Theycanbederivedfromthepri-malproblembysettingthederivativeswrttowtozero.Also,theconstraintsthemselvesarepartoftheseconditionsandweneedthatforinequalityconstraintstheLagrangemultipliersarenon-negative.Finally,animportantconstraintcalled“complementaryslackness”needstobesatisfied,∂wLP=0→w−Xiαiyixi=0(8.12)∂bLP=0→Xiαiyi=0(8.13)constraint-1yi(wTxi−b)−1≥0(8.14)multiplierconditionαi≥0(8.15)complementaryslacknessαi(cid:2)yi(wTxi−b)−1(cid:3)=0(8.16)Itisthelastequationwhichmaybesomewhatsurprising.Itstatesthateithertheinequalityconstraintissatisfied,butnotsaturated:yi(wTxi−b)−1>0inwhichcaseαiforthatdata-casemustbezero,ortheinequalityconstraintissaturatedyi(wTxi−b)−1=0,inwhichcaseαicanbeanyvalueαi≥0.In-equalityconstraintswhicharesaturatedaresaidtobe“active”,whileunsaturatedconstraintsareinactive.Onecouldimaginetheprocessofsearchingforasolutionasaballwhichrunsdowntheprimaryobjectivefunctionusinggradientdescent.Atsomepoint,itwillhitawallwhichistheconstraintandalthoughthederivativeisstillpointingpartiallytowardsthewall,theconstraintsprohibitstheballtogoon.Thisisanactiveconstraintbecausetheballisgluedtothatwall.Whenafinalsolutionisreached,wecouldremovesomeconstraints,withoutchangingthesolution,theseareinactiveconstraints.Onecouldthinkoftheterm∂wLPastheforceactingontheball.Weseefromthefirstequationabovethatonlytheforceswithαi6=0exsertaforceontheballthatbalanceswiththeforcefromthecurvedquadraticsurfacew.Thetrainingcaseswithαi>0,representingactiveconstraintsontheposi-tionofthesupp #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 256 Context: ``` # INDEX UVA 10242 - Fourth Point, 181 UVA 10203 - First Fire, First, * 112 UVA 10214 - The Classic Dice Problem, * 118 UVA 10210 - Common Permutation, * 54 UVA 10229 - Hippolyte's Hypothesis, 113 UVA 10201 - Sunday, 24 UVA 10203 - Yearly Explosion, 68 UVA 10247 - Graphical Editor, 17 UVA 10248 - *96*, * 120 UVA 10262 - Advent of Code: Super Mario, 94 UVA 10271 - ClueList, 21 UVA 10273 - Hacked from Trouble Again, 65 UVA 10276 - The Prime Station, 91 UVA 10279 - Mike Swanson, 12 UVA 10281 - Average Speed, 12 UVA 10283 - BabbleFish, 45 UVA 10284 - Schedulon PEEN, * 15 UVA 10286 - Longest Path, * 111 UVA 10288 - The Turbine and the Pentagon, 165 UVA 10290 - Worst Template and Precyclic, 74 UVA 10291 - Hairy Balls, 25 UVA 10292 - Boxing Match, 210 UVA 10296 - Rolling, 140 UVA 10297 - Bisecting Stars, 15 UVA 10300 - Rings and Circles, 92 UVA 10301 - The Little Shop of Horrors, 120 UVA 10303 - The Earl of Pythagoras, 124 UVA 10304 - Optimal Binary Search Tree, * 69 UVA 10305 - Sorting Treasures, 78 UVA 10306 - Keys in the Bag Max, 92 UVA 10308 - Road in the North, 118 UVA 10310 - The Last Gift, * 46 UVA 10311 - Goldfish and God, 135 UVA 10315 - Matrix Manipulation, 157 UVA 10321 - Sector, 51 UVA 10324 - Sale II, 67 UVA 10334 - 2 Out of 5, 45 UVA 10346 - Peter's Stuck, * 122 UVA 10357 - Machines, 185 UVA 10359 - Convex Polyhedron, * 118 UVA 10360 - Little Fish, 111 UVA 10357 - Playground, 181 UVA 10361 - Attack Robots, * 122 UVA 10363 - A New Tree, 155 UVA 10364 - The 3D, * 62 UVA 10365 - Space, 210 UVA 10366 - Beads, 146 UVA 10367 - Active Anagrams, 21 UVA 10380 - Time Zones, 17 UVA 10381 - Ethics, 21 UVA 10382 - Greedy and Devil, 121 UVA 10384 - Maze Traversal, 52 UVA 10386 - Billings, 51 UVA 10392 - Subsets, 91 UVA 10394 - The Pedal, 85 UVA 10397 - Perfect Large Numbers, 17 UVA 10398 - A Pitiful Existence, 11 UVA 10400 - Lot's Added, 64 UVA 10401 - Equidistant Problem, * 111 UVA 10402 - Knights in Pones, 17 UVA 10403 - Least Common Subsequence, 162 UVA 10407 - Simple Stack Decouplers, 128 UVA 10409 - How Simple, 69 UVA 10410 - Carry it, not to Carry, 122 UVA 10415 - The Last Game, 28 UVA 10434 - Where the Marble?, 59 UVA 10475 - Help the Leaders, 45 ``` #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 13 Context: # Abbreviations | Abbreviation | Definition | |--------------|--------------------------------------------------| | A* | A Star | | ACM | Association of Computing Machinery | | AC | Accepted | | ASP* | All-Pairs Shortest Paths | | AVL | Adelson-Velsky Tree (BST) | | BNF | Backus-Naur Form | | B| | Bit | | BIT | Binary Indexed Tree | | BST | Binary Search Tree | | CC | Chin Closest | | C| | Computer ClockWise | | CCF | Cumulative Frequency | | CS | Computer Science | | DAG | Directed Acyclic Graph | | DA| | Direct Advertising Table | | DC | Divide and Conquer | | DFS | Depth First Search | | DP | Dynamic Programming | | ED | Edit Distance | | FT | Rewrite Tree | | GCD | Greatest Common Divisor | | ICP* | Int call Programming Contest | | IDS | Iterative Deepening Search | | IDE | Iterative Designing A Star | | IPOC | International Problem Solving Contest | | LA | Law Archive Policy | | LCM | Least Common Multiple | | LCS | Longest Common Subsequence | | LCP | Longest Common Prefix | | LIS | Longest Increasing Subsequence | | MST | Minimum Spanning Tree | | MCBM | Max Cardinality Bipartite Matching | | MCM | Min-Cut Max-Flow | | MICM | Min-Cut Max-Flow Maximum | | ME | Memory Limit Exceeded | | MPS* | Minimum Path Set | | MSP* | Minimum Spanning Tree Shortest Paths | | MWIS | Max Weighted Independent Set | | OJ | Online Judge | | PB | Presentation Box | | R | Red-Black (BST) | | RMQ | Range Minimum (or Maximum) Query | | RSP | Range Sum Query | | RTE | Run Time Error | | RSQ | Range Sum Query | | SSP | Single-Source Shortest Paths | | SA | Suffix Array | | STL | Standard Template Library | | TLE | Time Limit Exceeded | | USACO | USA Computing Olympiad | | Uva | University of Valladolid [28] | | WA | Wrong Answer | | WF | World Finals | #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 135 Context: # 4.8 Chapter Notes We end this relatively long chapter by making a remark that this chapter has lots of algorithms and algorithms issues that are not in this book. This trend will likely continue in the future, and there will be many graph algorithms. However, we have come to the observations that recent ICPCs and OI often do not just ask contestants to solve problems involving the pure form of these graph algorithms. Most problems usually require contestants to combine two or more algorithms together, especially for local contests. It is rare that Dynamic Programming (DP) is not on par with problem solving in graph. To summarize, the biggest problem in graph algorithms is that they can become quite complex, especially for local specialists. It is rare that DP is paired with graph problems. However, we recognize that contestants must master the usage of the combined algorithms for solving the Max Cardinality Bipartite Matching (MCBM) problem. We have this section that covers the different algorithmic approaches for this problem to MCBM. The next section describes graph problems. While this section can get too heavy to work with bipartite graphs (it is still useful to do so), it is crucial to understand. The other graph problems discussed in this chapter – the Delaine Graph – do not have too many contest problems involving it nowadays. There are also general graph problems, but we rarely encounter them, e.g., Planar Graph, Complete Graph, etc. When they appeal, try to utilize their special properties to speed up your algorithms. Thus, this chapter encapsulates a lot of discussion regarding graph algorithms and graph problems that may be related to ICPCs, as many such as Hartals, Bipartite Matching, Stable Points, and Lin Erdős algorithm for Min Cost Arborescence problems, Tarjan's Offline and Common Ancestor (Hungarian) algorithm, Edmonds's Blossom Shrinking algorithm, and a few others. If you want to improve your standing in ACM ICPC finals, please spend some time to revisit the algorithms mentioned in this book. These are basic procedures you need in required contests and, if they are, they usually become the dividing boundary for solving graph problems as notable algorithmic problems you'd seek. We believe that the most graph materials in the 101 syllabi are already covered in this chapter. There are 20 UVA ( +30 others) programming exercises discussed in this chapter. - (Only 173 in the first edition, a 397% increase). - There are 49 pages in this chapter. - (Only 43 in the first edition, a 407% increase). “Interested readers are welcome to explore Flik's paper [12] that discusses maximum flow algorithms for large graphs of all minus vertices and 20 hidden edges.” #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 60 Context: ```markdown ## 3.2 COMPLETE SEARCH Browse the Internet or reference books (e.g., [41]) to find more information on how to speed up your code. Practice this code-basing skill by choosing a harder problem in UVA online judge where the native run-time is about 0.00s. Submit several variants of your Accepted solution and track the runtime differences. Adopt hacking modifications that give you faster runtime. ### Tip 7: Use Better Data Structures & Algorithms :) No kidding. Using better data structures and algorithms always outperforms any optimization tips mentioned in Tips 1-6 above. If all else fails, abandon Complete Search anyway. ### Remarks About Complete Search in Programming Contests If a problem is declared to be solvable by Complete Search, it will often be due to its iterative or recursive backtracking approach. Iterative approaches are used when one can traverse the different states easily without committing to a certain outcome and all states can be checked, e.g., casting all possible outcomes of a small set. Recursive Backtracking is used when one cannot easily traverse all states or if one wants to prune the search space, e.g., the 0-1 knapsack problem. Another thing to note is that because of the pruning that is done when Complete Search is large, the recursive backtracking that takes place may not yield the final answer in particular scenarios. The best way to improve your Complete Search skills is to solve many problems solvable with Complete Search. We have categorized a list of such problems into four sub-categories below. Please attempt as many as possible, especially those that are highlighted as **must try**. ### Programming Examples Evaluating Using Complete Search: 1. **Iterative:** [The Easy Ones] - UVA 101: Ecological Bin Packing (try all possible combinations) - UVA 100: The Sieve Problem (brute force) - UVA 109: The Greatest Product (brute force) - UVA 105: The Skyline Problem (brute map) - UVA 106: Lance Armstrong (try all combinations) 2. **Recursive:** [Basic Problems] - UVA 101: Perfect Cubes (try all) - UVA 105: Permutations (try all) - UVA 103: The Mice and the Cheese (recursive backtracking) - UVA 102: The All-Powerful Numbers (brute force) - UVA 106: The 0/1 Knapsack Problem 3. **More Complex:** [Squared Problems] - UVA 107: The Permutation Problem (brute force) - UVA 108: Inserting (the basic Nqueen solution) - UVA 100: All but two (the 0/1 pairing) 4. **Advanced:** [Large Constraints] - UVA 110: The Winds of Change (brute force retry) - UVA 112: Block and Queue (can be solved using partial id's) - UVA 114: Block Sum (2D sublists) - UVA 116: Zero Equality (try find and return to 0) ``` #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 245 Context: # Bibliography [1] Ahmad Shamsul Arifin. *Art of Programming Context* (from Steven's old Website). 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[https://www.topcoder.com/ta/tutorials/](https://www.topcoder.com/ta/tutorials/). #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 259 Context: ``` # INDEX UVa 1001 - **Reggae**, 185 UVa 1004 - **Simple Addition**, 123 UVa 1005 - **Maximal Sum**, 210 UVa 1006 - **Chessboard Bass**, 45 UVa 1007 - **Effective Resolutions**, 100 UVa 1008 - **Fibonacci Words**, 76 UVa 1009 - **A Walk in the Park**, 25 UVa 1010 - **Eureka**, 16 UVa 1011 - **Time Travel**, 55 UVa 1012 - **The Score Game Problem**, 110 UVa 1013 - **The Snail**, 24 UVa 1014 - **Scoring**, 90 UVa 1015 - **Funny Strings**, 134 UVa 1016 - **We’re Traveling in Geekspeed**, 54 UVa 1017 - **Format**, 15 UVa 1018 - **Maximum Product**, 45 UVa 1019 - **Express**, 83 UVa 1020 - **Mary’s Social Dictionary**, 135 UVa 1021 - **Set Residues**, 12 UVa 1022 - **Number Theory**, 110 UVa 1023 - **The Hungry Robot**, 140 UVa 1024 - **A Graph Problem**, 132 UVa 1025 - **The Garden**, 85 UVa 1026 - **Equidistant**, 53 UVa 1027 - **Generalized Matrices**, 8 UVa 1028 - **BlaZ**, 14 UVa 1029 - **From Dusk Till Dawn**, 123 UVa 1030 - **Mathematical Landscapes**, 69 UVa 1031 - **Next and Backs**, 138 UVa 1032 - **Life of a Little Brother**, 17 UVa 1033 - **Lola**, 221 UVa 1034 - **Elegant Platforms**, 12 UVa 1035 - **Dynamic Flow**, 4 UVa 1115 - **Factors and Multiples**, 13 UVa 1116 - **Help My Brother [II]**, 139 UVa 1117 - **Liar Liar**, 13 UVa 1118 - **Relational Operator(s)**, 12 UVa 1119 - **Group Reverse**, 25 UVa 1120 - **Another Q-exam Problem**, 46 UVa 1121 - **The Problem with the Problem**, 37 UVa 1122 - **The next possible case**, 134 UVa 1123 - **You can just see it**, 16 UVa 1124 - **Mathematical Instruments**, 12 UVa 1125 - **The Baseline Game**, 156 UVa 1126 - **Eating a Book**, 296 UVa 1127 - **KTV**, 21 UVa 1128 - **How old are you?**, 17 UVa 1129 - **Decoding the message**, 151 UVa 1130 - **Using a Painter**, 16 UVa 1131 - **A dot, a dot**, 16 UVa 1132 - **Distinct Faces**, 20 UVa 1133 - **The Reading Styles**, 101 UVa 1134 - **A Simple Task**, 198 UVa 1135 - **Debugging**, 154 UVa 1136 - **Pattern Theory**, 64 UVa 1137 - **Unfriendly Chance**, 85 UVa 1138 - **Breaking a Tie**, 28 UVa 1139 - **Piano**, 43 UVa 1140 - **Learning Floating Point**, 15 UVa 1141 - **Kinematic Analysis**, 12 UVa 1142 - **Inside a House**, 11 UVa 1143 - **Combinatorial Game Theory**, 98 UVa 1144 - **Experiments**, 75 UVa 1145 - **Duals**, 13 UVa 1146 - **Pocket Money**, 52 UVa 1147 - **Text Parity**, 191 UVa 1148 - **Charmed Baker**, 26 UVa 1149 - **Contemplating Choices**, 16 UVa 1150 - **Counting Duplicates**, 12 UVa 1151 - **Shooting Tips**, 16 UVa 1152 - **Decomposing Numbers**, 15 UVa 1153 - **Exact Change**, 12 UVa 1154 - **Alternate Abstinence**, 25 UVa 1155 - **Greek Alphabet**, 58 UVa 1156 - **Diversity Decade**, 12 UVa 1157 - **Combinatorial Games**, 125 UVa 1158 - **Sort Sort and Sort**, 25 ``` #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 233 Context: ```markdown void backtrack(int col) { for (int tyrow = 0; tyrow < 8; tyrow++) { // try all possible rows if (can_place(tyrow, col)) { // if we can place a queen in this row and column row[col] = tyrow; // put this queen in this col and row printf("%d ", col); // #include (tyrow, row[col]) for (int j = 0; j < 8; j++) printf("%d ", row[j]); printf("\n"); } else { backtrack(col + 1); // recursively try next column } } } ## Exercise 3.2.1.5: Straightforward. Solution is not shown. ## Exercise 3.2.1.6: We will consider the two diagnosing tools. To further expand upon the solution, use limited techniques (algorithmic study of Boston data structures) discussed in Section 2.21. ## Exercise 3.4.1: We have 11850 as a load balancing problem. Sort input. Find the pattern. ## Exercise 3.4.1: Comment 0 -> Take the third model (cost 7); Comment 1 -> Take the first model (cost 10); Comment 2 -> Take the first model (cost 7); Nothing left. ## Exercise 3.5.1 and Exercise 3.5.1.5 ```cpp #include #include using namespace std; int main() { int i, j, T, M, C, cur, price[25][25]; // price[c][row][column] bool can_reach[210][210]; // can_reach table[210][maxy < 20] scanf("%d %d %d", &T, &M, &C); for (i = 0; i < T; i++) { scanf("%d", &price[i][0]); // to simplify coding, store in price[i][0] for (j = 1; j <= M; j++) { scanf("%d", &price[i][j]); // only using if each remaining state } } memset(can_reach, false, sizeof(can_reach)); // reset states for (i = 0; i < T; i++) { for (j = 0; j < 210; j++) { can_reach[i][j] = true; // flag the rest } } cur = 0; // key trick: swap active row } ``` ``` #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 171 Context: # 6.3 AD HOC STRING PROCESSING PROBLEMS © Steven & Felix ## Problem Statements 1. UVA 11196 - **Mimic Function** (restrict size, simple/indirect recursion from a fan, pol) 2. UVA 11828 - **Permutation Checker** (simple mathematical expressions parsing) 3. UVA 10106 - **Multiply Strings** (direct manipulation, output formatting) 4. UVA 10429 - **Mareck’s Maze** (similarity, output formatting) 5. UVA 10646 - **The Big Word** (easy string manipulation, output formatting) 6. UVA 10141 - **Zebra Crossing** (careful manipulation with input) 7. UVA 10944 - **A Non-Existent Graph** (complex output formatting problem) 8. UVA 10038 - **String Finding** (linear scan can solve this ‘easy’ problem) ### String Comparisons 1. UVA 604 - **Excess, Errors** (disable notations; use “as well as” in every word) 2. UVA 604 - **Immediate Duplicability** (is a special case for automatic best-known) 3. UVA 603 - **Spell Checker** (correcting misspelled words) 4. UVA 12637 - **Automatic Correction** (utilizes existing machine learning techniques) 5. UVA 10140 - **Locating a Prefix** (and requires case-insensitive string comparisons) 6. UVA 11234 - **Did You Mean?** (autocomplete system comparison) 7. UVA 11375 - **Big Number of Digits** (limited syntactic comparison) ### Just for Fun! 1. UVA 10216 - **Permute** (limit formatting to the first, similar to UVA 941) 2. UVA 11845 - **Numbers** (find solutions for digits, convert to integer, direct simulation) 3. UVA 11563 - **Interval** (list structure; range is not to be data vector) 4. UVA 10161 - **Permutation** (limit format along the path to a permutation of existing) 5. UVA 11330 - **Medical Dictionary** (table description) 6. UVA 11128 - **Three-One-More-Handled Types** (tips for the problem in description) 7. UVA 12654 - **Look-Up Tables** (use b-trees for new dimensions) 8. UVA 12630 - **I Love Strings** (take with care, checking if z # of b is AC) 9. UVA 11813 - **Difficult Problem** (list for solving problem), essential input, BF 10. UVA 11329 - **Decimal Range** (limit count to 2–3 landmarks) 11. UVA 11139 - **Digital Range** (find similar to UVA 941; for n) 12. UVA 583 - **Partial Fractions** (find where equations) 13. UVA 12470 - **Arc and String** (linked) 14. UVA 239 - **Gnome’s Grammar** (Bash to A) Although the problems listed in this section constitute 77% of the problems listed in this chapter, we have to note that real algorithmic problems in ACM ICP (and IOI) usually do not just have simple solutions; there must be an elaborated proof for the “greedy” problem that matches teams (contestants) that could be solved in the next few examples. We will return to string matching problems (Section 6.4) shortly while proposing richer structures for dynamic programming (DP) (Section 6.5). Discussion will arise for solving efficient string processing problems where we have the Suffix Tree, Suffix Array, and more. We discuss these data structures and several specialized algorithms using these data structures in Section 6.6. #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 21 Context: ``` # 1.2 TIPS TO BE COMPETITIVE ## Steven & Felg Exercise 1.2.1. Read the UVa [28] problems shown in Table 1.2 and determine their problem types. The first and the fifth ones have been filled-in for you. Filling this table is easy after inserting hints to basic techniques to solve these problems as discussed in this book. Please revisit this section when you have finished reading this book. | UVa ID | Title | Problem Type | Hint | |--------|-----------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------|------------------------| | 10081 | Rat Attack | Complete Search or Dynamic Programming | Section 3.2 & 3.5 | | 11920 | Daring of Loewen | Section 3.4 | | | 11034 | Wedding Shopping | Section 3.4 | | | 11511 | Forming Quiz Teams DP + Bitmask | Section 3.4 | | | 11661 | Angry Program | Section 4.1 | | | 10236 | Pear Fenced!! | Section 4.7 | | | 10717 | MITMATIC | Section 6.2 | | | 13175 | Glasses-Plate Packers | Section 6.3 | | | 10065 | Useless The Packers | Section 7.6 | | Table 1.2: Exercise: Classify These UVa Problems The goal is not just to map problems into categories as in table 1.1. After you are familiar with most of the topics in this book, you can classify the problems into just four types as in Table 1.3. | No. | Category | Candidate and Expected Solving Support | |-----|--------------|---------------------------------------------------------| | A | I have solved this type before | I can candidate that I can solve it again (not fast)| | B | I have solved this type before | But I know solving this solution takes time | | C | I have not solved this type before | But that I have not or cannot solve it | | D | I have not seen this type before | I may (not) be able to solve it under current time | To be competitive, you must frequently classify the problems that you read in the problem set into type A (or at least type B). ## 1.2.2 Tip 3: Do Algorithm Analysis Once you have designed an algorithm to solve a particular problem in a programming contest, you must think and ask this question: Given the maximum input bound (usually given in a good problem statement), how fast can the currently developed algorithm, with its time/space complexity, solve the given problem (for this particular problem)? Some heuristics from that can say how to attack a problem. However, some of them may be mistaken, or may not help much for the problem in the contest itself. The rule of thumb is that if you are given a specific problem structure - the chances that it works (for costs that are suitable for your algorithm) help to predict the correct answer. For example, if your algorithm has time of `O(N)` (or `O(N - log(N))`) and your algorithm can solve it for `N = 10^6`. You could consider two ways to adjust your current input size; constructive analysis will support your divisor selects (and/or constant inputs) where the bounds of the case should be given multiple or yield `O(N log(N))`, not just `O(N)`. Thinking from restriction analysis, polynomials are significant: for an algorithm that works is crucial. However, without making overly excessive assumptions, be aware - it is extremely hard to deal when complexities vary widely, because you’ll notice you can get it wrong. When you are well prepared, the chances that you can come up with the correct solution is higher. ``` #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 17 Context: # Chapter 1 ## Introduction I want to compete in ACM ICPC World Finals! — A dedicated student ### 1.1 Competitive Programming 'Competitive Programming' in summary, is this: “Given well-known Computer Science (CS) problems, solve them as quickly as possible!” Let’s digest the terms as we dive. The term 'well-known CS problems' implies that in competitive programming, we are dealing with solid CS problems and not research problems (where the solutions are still murky). Definitely, some people (at least the problem authors) have solved these problems before. “Seen their templates,” working with what must pass our CS knowledge to a certain extent—but in the same way, the problem setter using the problem setter’s ‘script’ to craft. “As quickly as possible” is the essence of competitive programming which is a new natural human behavior. Please note that being well-versed in competitive programming is not the end goal. It is just the means. The end goal is to provide all-time-complete solutions consistently. The founders of ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) have this vision in mind, perhaps, to reach one. With this book, we play our role in helping students, and future programmers to be more competent in dealing with well-known CS problems frequently used in the recent ICPC and the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI). ### Illustration on solving UVA Online Judge [38] Problem Number 1091 (Retrieving Quiz Teams). **Abridged Problem Description:** Let \( N \) be the number of a student’s houses in a 2D plane. There are \( 2N \) students and we want to put them into \( N \) groups. Let \( d_{ij} \) be the distance between the houses of 2 students in support. If \( K \) is the group and the total distance \( D \) is minimized, then we need to solve \[ \min D = \sum_{i=1}^{N} d_{ij} \] **Sample Input:** ``` 2 1 1 2 ``` **Sample Output:** ``` 4 ``` **Explanation:** “Some programming competitions are also in less setting to encourage teamwork as software engineers usually do when coding.” “By building the actual solution from the problem statement, competitive programmers often encounter the problems related to coding or the best way to think of possible corner cases and their patterns, with software test. The sponsors of it by the software engineers have to test their software a lot to make sure the software meets the requirements set by the customers.” #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 93 Context: Bibliography81 #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 40 Context: 28CHAPTER6.THENAIVEBAYESIANCLASSIFIERForhamemails,wecomputeexactlythesamequantity,Pham(Xi=j)=#hamemailsforwhichthewordiwasfoundjtimestotal#ofhamemails(6.5)=PnI[Xin=j∧Yn=0]PnI[Yn=0](6.6)Boththesequantitiesshouldbecomputedforallwordsorphrases(ormoregen-erallyattributes).Wehavenowfinishedthephasewhereweestimatethemodelfromthedata.Wewilloftenrefertothisphaseas“learning”ortrainingamodel.Themodelhelpsusunderstandhowdatawasgeneratedinsomeapproximatesetting.Thenextphaseisthatofpredictionorclassificationofnewemail.6.3Class-PredictionforNewInstancesNewemaildoesnotcomewithalabelhamorspam(ifitwouldwecouldthrowspaminthespam-boxrightaway).Whatwedoseearetheattributes{Xi}.Ourtaskistoguessthelabelbasedonthemodelandthemeasuredattributes.Theapproachwetakeissimple:calculatewhethertheemailhasahigherprobabilityofbeinggeneratedfromthespamorthehammodel.Forexample,becausetheword“viagra”hasatinyprobabilityofbeinggeneratedunderthehammodelitwillendupwithahigherprobabilityunderthespammodel.Butclearly,allwordshaveasayinthisprocess.It’slikealargecommitteeofexperts,oneforeachword.eachmembercastsavoteandcansaythingslike:“Iam99%certainitsspam”,or“It’salmostdefinitelynotspam(0.1%spam)”.Eachoftheseopinionswillbemultipliedtogethertogenerateafinalscore.Wethenfigureoutwhetherhamorspamhasthehighestscore.Thereisonelittlepracticalcaveatwiththisapproach,namelythattheproductofalargenumberofprobabilities,eachofwhichisnecessarilysmallerthanone,veryquicklygetssosmallthatyourcomputercan’thandleit.Thereisaneasyfixthough.Insteadofmultiplyingprobabilitiesasscores,weusethelogarithmsofthoseprobabilitiesandaddthelogarithms.Thisisnumericallystableandleadstothesameconclusionbecauseifa>bthenwealsohavethatlog(a)>log(b)andviceversa.Inequationswecomputethescoreasfollows:Sspam=XilogPspam(Xi=vi)+logP(spam)(6.7) #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 41 Context: ``` ## 2.2 DATA STRUCTURES WITH BUILT-IN LIBRARIES ### Author: Steven & Feliks 1. **UVA 10783** - Let's Play (1D string array manipulation) 2. **UVA 11040** - Add Links to the Wall (2D array manipulation) 3. **UVA 11902** - Group People (1D array manipulation) 4. **UVA 11933** - Divide and Conquer (3D array manipulation) 5. **UVA 11934** - Newspaper Mile (Direct Address Table) 6. **UVA 11939** - Symphony (1D array manipulation) 7. **UVA 11940** - Stickers (2D array manipulation) 8. **UVA 11941** - No Problem (1D array manipulation) 9. **UVA 11942** - Prefix Permutation (2D array manipulation) 10. **UVA 11943** - Spring Numbers (a case for linked lists) 11. **UVA 11944** - The Knapsack (1D array manipulation) 12. **UVA 11945** - Melting Loop (1D array manipulation) 13. **UVA 11609** - Circular Scheduler (2D array manipulation) 14. **UVA 11613** - Childish Game (modified comparison function, use sort) 15. **UVA 11614** - Building Bridges (can occur in different ways) 16. **UVA 11615** - Simple Logs (accelerate with binary search) 17. **UVA 11617** - Small Regular Guardians (can be simplified for Z=0, with sort) 18. **UVA 11241** - Minimum Land (uses sort algorithms) 19. **UVA 11244** - Variable Length Codes (uses sorting, per-execution) 20. **UVA 12131** - Wonderland (BST, lever overflow, per-execution) ### C++ STL Algorithms (Code Questions) 1. **UVA 10125** - Slicing Quality (modified comparison function, use sort) 2. **UVA 10126** - Load Balancer (use next-permutation) 3. **UVA 10127** - Portable A.I. (custom-built sorting, use sort) 4. **UVA 10128** - Second Scheduler 5. **UVA 10129** - Childish Game (modified comparison function, use sort) 6. **UVA 10130** - Sorting Design (read from the end with different sizes) 7. **UVA 10131** - Sort and Run (new sort) 8. **UVA 10132** - Minimum Load Gaurds (uses sorting) 9. **UVA 10133** - Minimum Land (uses pre-computation) 10. **UVA 10134** - Binary Sort (something has happened in ) 11. **UVA 10135** - Balls and Boxes (requires sort - requires O(nlogn) long sort) 12. **UVA 11367** - Round Work > "Count how many valid sets (groups) between pairs of consecutive lines are used to create the list sorted. For example, the only set of lines possible is the second, third, and last sets selected during counting. Also, it is possible to help one another, but they may share only one pair." ``` #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 29 Context: # 1.3 Getting Started: The Ad Hoc Problems We will kick this chapter by stating that the first problem type in ICPCs and IOIs: the Ad Hoc problems. According to [ICPC 2020](https://icpc.global/), Ad Hoc problems are problems that cannot be classified anywhere else, where each problem description and its corresponding solution are "unique". Ad Hoc problems are always present in a programming contest. Using a benchmark of total problems, there must be at least one Ad Hoc problem in an ICPC. If the benchmark is set, it will be visible in the first problem sent to the teams in a programming contest. But there exists Ad Hoc problems that are not easily coded, and some teams will struggle with these until the last hour. Assuming a 6-hour contest, your team is probably in the loser half (rank 30+) if you have seen only the first 20 problems in the last 200 minutes. **Easy**: Easy Ad Hoc problems are usually easy to code. The trickiness is in recognizing the needed subtasks. The more time that you will have to work on the other 2 + 3 = 5 challenging tasks, the more time that quick problems can suggest what might have been. But there exists other subtypes of Ad Hoc problems, such as their listed main Ad Hoc problems which can be highlighted into an interesting "easy" by intersections in each category. There are the problems that risk the maximum time limit by way of their quirks. We believe that you can enhance your list of basic problems while studying advanced data structures or algorithms that will be discussed in the later chapters. Many of these Ad Hoc problems are “simple” but have the unique term "tricky". Now, try to solve problems from each category before reading the next chapter. ## The Categories: ### (1) Super Easy You should start these problems A*C in under 7 minutes each! If you are just starting competitive programming, we strongly recommend that you start your journey by solving some problems from this category. ### (2) Game (Card) There exists a lot of Ad Hoc problems involving game patterns. The first game type is related to cards. Usually, you will need to parse the string input as actual cards (suits with values) in the following order: (C)lub, (D)iamond, (H)eart, (S)pade is top of the card values: [2, 3, ... (J)ack, (Q)ueen, (K)ing, (A)ce]. It may be a good idea to map the complicated strings to integer values. For example, consider possible mappings to let 2 = 2, 3 = 3, ... DA = 10, DA = 11, C2 = 12, C3 = 13, ... SA = 14, etc. This can help in resolving odd (and seemingly random) instances. ### (3) Game (Chess) Another popular game that sometimes appears in programming contest problems are chess games. Some of the usual Ad Hoc [listed in this section](#) don’t share continued rules. Knowing the details regarding how many ways you can put queens in S x S chess board (listed in Chapter 3). ### (4) Game (Others) Other than card and chess games, there are many other special programming problems that can associate with the fundamental ideas you bring into programming contests. The To-Do, Rock-Paper-Scissors, Tetris, Snakes, BINGO, Bursting, and various other non-traditional methods. Once you become familiar, most of the rules are given in the problem description to avoid disqualifying constants who have played these games before. #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 262 Context: ``` # INDEX - UVa 11963 - Extra Spaces, 155 - UVa 11964 - Galactic Boring, 37 - UVa 11970 - In The Airport, 123 - UVa 11971 - Lucky Numbers, 123 - UVa 11974 - A Switch The Lights, 84 - UVa 11984 - A Change In Thermal Unit, 16 - UVa 11986 - Six From Ratatouille, 124 - UVa 11988 - Broken Keyboard, 25 - UVa 11991 - Easy Problem from, 37 - UVa 11994 - I Can Guess..., 28 - UVa 12015 - Google’s Problem Lucky, 15 - UVa 12019 - Doom’s Day Algorithm, 17 - UVa 12024 - Hats, 142 - UVa 12034 - Paint with Strings, 148 ## Vector - Vector (Geometry), 178 ## References - Wasiluk, Stephen, 96, 99 - Waterman, Michael S., 139 - Wirth, Christian D., 139 - Zdechlik, Edward, 128 - Zero-Sum Game, 145 ``` #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 11 Context: ixManypeoplemayfindthissomewhatexperimentalwaytointroducestudentstonewtopicscounter-productive.Undoubtedlyformanyitwillbe.Ifyoufeelunder-challengedandbecomeboredIrecommendyoumoveontothemoread-vancedtext-booksofwhichtherearemanyexcellentsamplesonthemarket(foralistsee(books)).ButIhopethatformostbeginningstudentsthisintuitivestyleofwritingmayhelptogainadeeperunderstandingoftheideasthatIwillpresentinthefollowing.Aboveall,havefun! #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 248 Context: # INDEX @ Steven & Felts - **Factorial**: 316 - **Fenwick Tree**: 36 - **Floyd-Warshall**: 38 - **Fibonacci Numbers**: 129 - **Flood Fill**: 71 - **Game Theory**: 165 - **Game Tree, or Decision Tree**: 82 - **Goodrich, Christian**: 132 - **Graham's Scan**: 191 - **Goup, T.**: 71 - **Data Structures**: 29 - **Great-Circle Distance**: 186 - **Greatest Common Divisor**: 135 - **Grid**: 122 ## Hash Table - **Heap**: 27 - **Heron of Alexandria**: 184, 187 - **Hoffman & Kramalu**: 154 - **Hopcroft, John Edward**: 78, 89 ## 1PC1 1. **Internal Covering**: 53 2. **IO1 2003 - Total Maintenance**: 39 3. **IO1 2003 - The Frontier**: 173 4. **IO1 2009 - Archive**: 206 5. **IO1 2009 - Neighbors**: 191 6. **IO1 2009 - Achieving**: 15 7. **IO1 2010 - Community of Living**: 50 8. **IO1 2010 - Eclipse**: 94 9. **IO1 2010 - Interference**: 95 10. **IO1 2011 - Preparing**: 110 11. **IO1 2011 - The Retired Generates**: 302 12. **IO1 2011 - Permutation**: 287 13. **IO1 2011 - Tailored Garden**: 82 14. **IO1 2011 - Hashing A**: 159 15. **Iterative Deepening Search**: 204 ## Miscellaneous - **Java BigInteger Class**: 125 - **Base Number Conversion**: 127 - **GCD**: 126 - **Java Pattern (Regular Expressions)**: 153 - **Karp, Richard Manning**: 65, 102 - **Kemeny, John Earle**: 199 - **Knuth, Donald Ervin**: 159 - **Kruskal's Algorithm**: 156 - **Kronfeld, Joseph Bernard**: 84 ## LA Sections - **LA 2189 - Mobile Algorithms**: 18 - **LA 2195 - Counting Zeros**: 30 - **LA 2519 - Regularization**: 162 - **LA 2569 - Recursive Structures**: 98 - **LA 2636 - Calling Structures**: 50 - **LA 2676 - Arching Books**: 179 - **LA 2719 - Geodesic Path Problem**: 100 - **LA 2724 - APT Problem**: 15 - **LA 3015 - Environment**: 20 - **LA 3021 - Library and Solutions**: 118 - **LA 3134 - Traveling**: 36 - **LA 3735 - Accebs**: 226 - **LA 3819 - Garbage Free**: 194 - **LA 3173 - Arrows**: 50 - **LA 3724 - Evolution**: 115 - **LA 3697 - Brining FIPA**: 211 #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 17 Context: 1.2.PREPROCESSINGTHEDATA5attributeseparately)andthenaddedanddividedbyN.YouhaveperhapsnoticedthatvariancedoesnothavethesameunitsasXitself.IfXismeasuredingrams,thenvarianceismeasuredingramssquared.Sotoscalethedatatohavethesamescaleineverydimensionwedividebythesquare-rootofthevariance,whichisusuallycalledthesamplestandarddeviation.,X′′in=X′inpV[X′]i∀n(1.4)Noteagainthatspheringrequirescenteringimplyingthatwealwayshavetoper-formtheseoperationsinthisorder,firstcenter,thensphere.Figure??a,b,cillus-tratethisprocess.Youmaynowbeasking,“wellwhatifthedatawhereelongatedinadiagonaldirection?”.Indeed,wecanalsodealwithsuchacasebyfirstcentering,thenrotatingsuchthattheelongateddirectionpointsinthedirectionofoneoftheaxes,andthenscaling.Thisrequiresquiteabitmoremath,andwillpostponethisissueuntilchapter??on“principalcomponentsanalysis”.However,thequestionisinfactaverydeepone,becauseonecouldarguethatonecouldkeepchangingthedatausingmoreandmoresophisticatedtransformationsuntilallthestructurewasremovedfromthedataandtherewouldbenothinglefttoanalyze!Itisindeedtruethatthepre-processingstepscanbeviewedaspartofthemodelingprocessinthatitidentifiesstructure(andthenremovesit).Byrememberingthesequenceoftransformationsyouperformedyouhaveimplicitlybuildamodel.Reversely,manyalgorithmcanbeeasilyadaptedtomodelthemeanandscaleofthedata.Now,thepreprocessingisnolongernecessaryandbecomesintegratedintothemodel.Justaspreprocessingcanbeviewedasbuildingamodel,wecanuseamodeltotransformstructureddatainto(more)unstructureddata.Thedetailsofthisprocesswillbeleftforlaterchaptersbutagoodexampleisprovidedbycompres-sionalgorithms.Compressionalgorithmsarebasedonmodelsfortheredundancyindata(e.g.text,images).Thecompressionconsistsinremovingthisredun-dancyandtransformingtheoriginaldataintoalessstructuredorlessredundant(andhencemoresuccinct)code.Modelsandstructurereducingdatatransforma-tionsareinsenseeachothersreverse:weoftenassociatewithamodelanunder-standingofhowthedatawasgenerated,startingfromrandomnoise.Reversely,pre-proc #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 59 Context: Chapter9SupportVectorRegressionInkernelridgeregressionwehaveseenthefinalsolutionwasnotsparseinthevariablesα.Wewillnowformulatearegressionmethodthatissparse,i.e.ithastheconceptofsupportvectorsthatdeterminethesolution.Thethingtonoticeisthatthesparsenessarosefromcomplementaryslacknessconditionswhichinturncamefromthefactthatwehadinequalityconstraints.IntheSVMthepenaltythatwaspaidforbeingonthewrongsideofthesupportplanewasgivenbyCPiξkiforpositiveintegersk,whereξiistheorthogonaldistanceawayfromthesupportplane.Notethattheterm||w||2wastheretopenalizelargewandhencetoregularizethesolution.Importantly,therewasnopenaltyifadata-casewasontherightsideoftheplane.Becauseallthesedata-pointsdonothaveanyeffectonthefinalsolutiontheαwassparse.Herewedothesamething:weintroduceapenaltyforbeingtofarawayfrompredictedlinewΦi+b,butonceyouarecloseenough,i.e.insome“epsilon-tube”aroundthisline,thereisnopenalty.Wethusexpectthatallthedata-caseswhichlieinsidethedata-tubewillhavenoimpactonthefinalsolutionandhencehavecorrespondingαi=0.Usingtheanalogyofsprings:inthecaseofridge-regressionthespringswereattachedbetweenthedata-casesandthedecisionsurface,henceeveryitemhadanimpactonthepositionofthisboundarythroughtheforceitexerted(recallthatthesurfacewasfrom“rubber”andpulledbackbecauseitwasparameterizedusingafinitenumberofdegreesoffreedomorbecauseitwasregularized).ForSVRthereareonlyspringsattachedbetweendata-casesoutsidethetubeandtheseattachtothetube,notthedecisionboundary.Hence,data-itemsinsidethetubehavenoimpactonthefinalsolution(orrather,changingtheirpositionslightlydoesn’tperturbthesolution).Weintroducedifferentconstraintsforviolatingthetubeconstraintfromabove47 #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 255 Context: - **UVa 10085** - Jimmy's Ridles, 154 - **UVa 10084** - A Hole to Catch a Man, 194 - **UVa 10083** - Not how many are a horse, 138 - **UVa 10082** - The explorers, 134 - **UVa 10081** - Useless title picking, 194 - **UVa 10080** - The Twin Towers, 162 - **UVa 10079** - Distinct Subsequences, 211 - **UVa 10078** - Making Change, 12 - **UVa 10077** - A Back to School Physics Problem, 122 - **UVa 10076** - Conditional Exchange Sort, 204 - **UVa 10075** - Artists, 7 - **UVa 10074** - The Sater's-Boot Number, 60 - **UVa 10073** - Art Gallery, 194 - **UVa 10072** - Post Office, 132 - **UVa 10071** - Cyclist, 118 - **UVa 10070** - TIGHT, 211 - **UVa 10069** - Disjoint sets, 16 - **UVa 10068** - WETW5, 126 - **UVa 10067** - The Problem with... 12 - **UVa 10066** - An Easy Problem, 46 - **UVa 10065** - Place the Graduates, 54 - **UVa 10064** - Count the Rides, 40 - **UVa 10063** - Bike Race, 2, 7 - **UVa 10062** - PhD Problem, 14 - **UVa 10061** - Product Problem, 15 - **UVa 10060** - Fizz Buzz, 12 - **UVa 10059** - Parallel Processes, 46 - **UVa 10058** - Number, 20 - **UVa 10057** - Simple Sums, 161 - **UVa 10056** - Time is Money, 11 - **UVa 10055** - Symmetric Formulas, 231 - **UVa 10054** - The Fight with Infinite Primes, 23 - **UVa 10053** - Meeting Mud, 10 - **UVa 10052** - The Language Expert, 26 - **UVa 10051** - The Hardest Card, 99 - **UVa 10050** - (2,3)-Agap Set/Rest/Cover, 45 - **UVa 10049** - Controlled Fires, 63 - **UVa 10048** - Recursion Repeated, 183 - **UVa 10047** - The A* Path Problem, 24 - **UVa 10046** - An Empty Place, 1 - **UVa 10045** - Dustbin, 27 - **UVa 10044** - Amicable Numbers, 20 - **UVa 10043** - The Kingdom of the Round, 155 - **UVa 10042** - Easiest Challenge Ever, 55 - **UVa 10041** - Musical Juggling, 55 - **UVa 10040** - Drinking Problem, 124 - **UVa 10039** - New Year, 99 - **UVa 10038** - The Hurdle Race, 17 - **UVa 10037** - The Stick Tower, 14 - **UVa 10036** - Test the Survivor, 68 - **UVa 10035** - Expressing the Path, 10 - **UVa 10034** - Association of Music, 10 - **UVa 10033** - MP3, 10 - **UVa 10032** - The Cards, 37 - **UVa 10031** - Stack, 23 - **UVa 10030** - Hello World, 12 - **UVa 10029** - Smiling Faces, 28 - **UVa 10028** - The Last, 78 - **UVa 10027** - Swallowing the Moon, 126 - **UVa 10026** - An Idea for a Great Start, 30 - **UVa 10025** - Light in the Darkness, 35 - **UVa 10024** - Artificial Intelligence, 176 - **UVa 10023** - The Light Bulb, 10 - **UVa 10022** - The Test, 18 - **UVa 10021** - Game of Life, 75 - **UVa 10020** - The Wasteland, 14 - **UVa 10019** - Stuck in Island, 9 - **UVa 10018** - The First Problem, 123 - **UVa 10017** - Problem Solving with ... 25 - **UVa 10016** - My Name is, 99 - **UVa 10015** - Proficiency in Mathematics, 112 - **UVa 10014** - Advanced Calculus, 225 - **UVa 10013** - Space Exploration, 14 - **UVa 10012** - Caching and Batching, 14 - **UVa 10011** - Knights and Peasants, 123 - **UVa 10010** - The Clown Problem, 194 - **UVa 10009** - Lighthouse, 98 - **UVa 10008** - Fast Fibonacci, 18 - **UVa 10007** - Penalty Kicks, 267 - **UVa 10006** - Titling Brook, 10 - **UVa 10005** - Exercise and Reminisce, 21 - **UVa 10004** - The Continents, 80 - **UVa 10003** - Back in The Loop, 23 - **UVa 10002** - Starlit Night, 7 - **UVa 10001** - Pilot Problems, 134 - **UVa 10150** - Doubles, 94 - **UVa 10152** - Skillset, 54 - **UVa 10153** - The One on a Dishevelled, 123 - **UVa 10154** - Our Queer Approach, 145 - **UVa 10155** - Master Keepers, 211 - **UVa 10156** - Number Games, 211 - **UVa 10157** - Sports, 141 - **UVa 10158** - Stamina of First Prizes, 134 - **UVa 10159** - The Big Foot Infinite Max, 123 - **UVa 10160** - Meeting Mud 0, 198 - **UVa 10161** - Problem Solving Script, 10 - **UVa 10162** - HTTP Error, 37 - **UVa 10163** - Resume Problems, 34 - **UVa 10164** - Recreational Paths, 183 - **UVa 10165** - The Very Best, 142 - **UVa 10166** - The Wishing Tree, 85 - **UVa 10167** - Hamburger Problems, 34 - **UVa 10168** - Programmatic Robot, 134 - **UVa 10169** - Smarter Network, 124 - **UVa 10170** - Crash Problems, 38 - **UVa 10171** - The Trunk, 118 - **UVa 10172** - Digital's FIRST, 16 - **UVa 10173** - The Professor's Test, 194 - **UVa 10174** - Cocktails, 136 - **UVa 10175** - Identify Each Person, 17 - **UVa 10176** - Hidden Values, 190 - **UVa 10177** - The Divorce, 58 - **UVa 10178** - Catch the Risks, 183 - **UVa 10179** - Reviews, 42 - **UVa 10180** - The Great Formula, 154 #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 27 Context: 3.1.INANUTSHELL153.1InaNutshellLearningisallaboutgeneralizingregularitiesinthetrainingdatatonew,yetun-observeddata.Itisnotaboutrememberingthetrainingdata.Goodgeneralizationmeansthatyouneedtobalancepriorknowledgewithinformationfromdata.De-pendingonthedatasetsize,youcanentertainmoreorlesscomplexmodels.Thecorrectsizeofmodelcanbedeterminedbyplayingacompressiongame.Learning=generalization=abstraction=compression. #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 155 Context: 5. **NUMBER THEORY** © Steven & Felix 5.1 **subDiv(N)**: Show the divisors of N In the previous example, the 12 divisors of \( N = 60 \) are (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30, 60). The size of those divisors is 168. This can be computed via prime factors. Let a number \( N \) such that \( N = p_1^{e_1} \times p_2^{e_2} \times \dots \times p_k^{e_k} \). Let’s check \( N = 2^2 \times 3^1 \times 5^1 \) yielding \( \text{subDiv}(60) = (2 + 1)(1 + 1)(1 + 1) = 168 \). ```c void subDiv(int N) { int PF_idx = 0, *PF = primes[PF_idx], ans = 1; while (PF[PF_idx] * PF[PF_idx] <= N) { int power = 0; // count the power while (N % PF[PF_idx] == 0) { // according to the formula PF = primes[++PF_idx]; ans = (power++ + 1); } if (power != 1) ans *= 2; // last factor has pow-1, we add it to } return ans; } ``` 6. **BulePr(N)**: Count the number of positive integers \( X \) that are relatively prime to \( N \). Recall: Two integers \( a \) and \( b \) are said to be relatively prime if \( gcd(a, b) = 1 \). In this section, we want to compute the number of positive integers \( g(1, \ldots, n) \). This function is known as Euler's Phi (totient) function. The Euler's Phi \( \varphi(N) \) is a function to count integers up to the problem posed about \( \varphi(N) = N \left(1 - \frac{1}{p_1}\right)\left(1 - \frac{1}{p_2}\right)...\left(1 - \frac{1}{p_m}\right) \) where \( p \) is prime for each \( N \). For example, \( N = 36 \) are \( 1, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 25, 29, 31 \). Those integers are (1, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 25, 29, 31). ```c void BulePr(int N) { int PF_idx = 0, *PF = primes[PF_idx], ans = 1; // start from ans = 1 while (PF[PF_idx] * PF[PF_idx] <= N) { if (N % PF[PF_idx] == 0) { // only count unique factor ans *= (1 - (1 / PF[PF_idx])); } while (N % PF[PF_idx] == 0) N /= PF[PF_idx]; // last factor } if (N > 1) ans *= (1 - (1 / N)); } ``` Example code (third part): `ch5/JrPrimes.cpp` `ch5/JrPrimes.java` 139 #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 26 Context: # 1.2 TIPS TO BE COMPETITIVE ## Exercise 1.2.8 Write the shortest codes that you can think of for the following tasks: 1. Given a string that represents a base X number, convert it to equivalent string in base Y: `2. X = X 5^y, base Y = base 16 (Hexadecimal) -> 75 in base Y = 10 (Decimal) and `11111111` in base Y = 2 (Binary). (More details in Section 5.3.) 2. Given a list of integers `L` of size up to `n` integers, determine whether a value `x` exists in `L` by not using more than `n/3` comparisons. (More details in Section 2.1.) 3. Given a date, determine what day it is (Monday, Tuesday, …, Sunday) of that date? (e.g. 9 August 2010 – the birthday of the first edition of this book – is Monday.) 4. Given an string, replace all 'special words' of length 3 with 3 stars: The ‘special word’ starts with a printable alphabet character and followed by two consecutive digits, e.g. 'foo' => 'foo' will be replaced, but 'a21' and 'a872' will not. `S = 'foo *** ***'` will be replaced, but `a21` and `a872` will not. 5. Write the shortest possible Java code to read in a double: (e.g. `1.4725`, `3.24536727`, etc.) Read in again, but with minimum width and 3 digits after decimal point. (e.g. `473` (where `d` denotes a space), `325`, `325.6`, etc.) 6. Generate all possible permutations of `(0, 1, 2, …, N-1)` for `N = 20`. 7. Generate all possible subsets of `(0, 1, 2, …, N-1)`. For `N = 20`. ## 1.2.4 Tip 5: Master the Art of Testing Code You thought that you have nailed a particular problem. You have identified its type, designed the necessary function, and calculated the algorithm's time-space complexity — it will become the next big thing! However, during the programming contest, you may or may not get penalized by solving the problem partially. In PCPC, you will only get credit if your team’s code solves all the judge's secret tests. That is, it’s your job to test. Other responses like Presentation Error (PE), Wrong Answer (WA), Time Limit Exceeded (TLE), Memory Limit Exceeded (MLE), and Runtime Error (RE), do not increase your team's points. In ICPC (2010-2011), the output scoring system is used. Test cases are first and foremost, that is usually the smallest variant of the tests for the judge. Always try to submit as several variants of test cases to dish out good practice. Consider some strategies for ensuring that you can explore thoroughly the corner cases. If your code looks clean and you think your code is optimal, that is good. Validate that you are teaching yourself to be able to solve incredibly (otherwise, there is no point in learning). Make testing fun, right? A test case can be used to complete the code which can help in debugging cases. If testing is done correctly and with good test code, you can end up being good to go! #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 55 Context: earchsolutionsareusuallyonlyrewardedwithlowmarks.Nevertheless,CompleteSearchshouldbeusedwhenwecannotcomeupwithabettersolutioninordertograbthatpreciouslowmarks.Sometimes,runningCompleteSearchonsmallinstancesofachallengingproblemcangiveussomepatternsfromtheoutput(itispossibletovisualizethepatternforsomeproblems)thatcanbeexploitedtodesignafasteralgorithm.YoumaywanttoseesomecombinatoricsproblemsinSection5.4thatcanbesolvedthisway.Then,theCompleteSearchsolutionwillalsoactasaverifieronsmallinstancesforthefasterbutnon-trivialalgorithmthatyoumanagetodevelop.39 #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 1 Context: ContentsForewordvPrefaceviAuthors’ProfilesandCopyrightxiConventionandProblemCategorizationxiiListofAbbreviationsxiiiListofTablesxivListofFiguresxv1Introduction11.1CompetitiveProgramming.................................11.2TipstobeCompetitive..................................21.2.1Tip2:QuicklyIdentifyProblemTypes.....................41.2.2Tip3:DoAlgorithmAnalysis...........................51.2.3Tip4:MasterProgrammingLanguages.....................81.2.4Tip5:MastertheArtofTestingCode......................101.2.5Tip6:PracticeandMorePractice........................121.2.6Tip7:TeamWork(ICPCOnly).........................121.3GettingStarted:TheAdHocProblems.........................131.4ChapterNotes.......................................192DataStructuresandLibraries212.1OverviewandMotivation.................................212.2DataStructureswithBuilt-inLibraries..........................222.2.1LinearDataStructures..............................222.2.2Non-LinearDataStructures............................262.3DataStructureswithOur-OwnLibraries.........................292.3.1Graph........................................292.3.2Union-FindDisjointSets.............................302.3.3SegmentTree....................................322.3.4FenwickTree....................................352.4ChapterNotes.......................................383ProblemSolvingParadigms393.1OverviewandMotivation.................................393.2CompleteSearch......................................393.2.1Examples......................................403.2.2Tips.........................................413.3DivideandConquer....................................47i #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 257 Context: ``` # INDEX © Steven & Felix - UVa 10081 - Sabotage, 107 - UVa 10082 - The Conformant Can, 211 - UVa 10084 - Dissubility of Partitions, 138 - UVa 10086 - Street of Chance, 110 - UVa 10089 - Boost of Chocolate, 140 - UVa 10097 - The Bacterial Infection, 195 - UVa 10100 - Mr. and Mrs. Simon, 135 - UVa 10101 - If We Were a Child Again, 129 - UVa 10102 - Sleet Child Make Trouble, 139 - UVa 10104 - Robot King, 15 - UVa 10105 - Counting Rectangles, 196 - UVa 10106 - Chocoholic's Nightmare, 45 - UVa 10107 - Making Up with a Girl, 37 - UVa 10108 - Wood Probing, 159 - UVa 10109 - I. U. Kidding, Mr. Ryman?, 123 - UVa 10110 - I. U. Community, 107 - UVa 10111 - Panic, 41 - UVa 10112 - Really Strange, 128 - UVa 10113 - Very Easy, 128 - UVa 10114 - Persistent Numbers, 125 - UVa 10115 - Major Smalls, 16 - UVa 10116 - A Song of Ice, 86 - UVa 10117 - Algorithms, 37 - UVa 10118 - Marshmellow Bridge, 37 - UVa 10119 - Round Tables, 42 - UVa 10120 - Half Surfaces, 228 - UVa 10121 - Bakwater, 205 - UVa 10122 - Need for Speed, 290 - UVa 10123 - Review Robot, 121 - UVa 10124 - Negative Numbers, 96 - UVa 10125 - The Longest Road, 198 - UVa 10126 - Division, 123 - UVa 10127 - Divide and Conquer, 114 - UVa 10128 - E. M. T. C., 145 - UVa 10129 - A Exactly Number of Paths, 17 - UVa 10130 - The Jackpot, 16 - UVa 10131 - Montgomery to Amazon, 82 - UVa 10132 - DYNAMIC Programming, 221 - UVa 10133 - Explicit Notation, 50 - UVa 10134 - Primes, 165 - UVa 10135 - Next, 32 - UVa 10136 - Repeated Stroke, 157 - UVa 10137 - Minimum, 88 - UVa 10138 - Puzzle, 153 - UVa 10139 - Embed Strategy, 25 - UVa 10140 - Open Room, 37 - UVa 10141 - Stable Marriage, 120 - UVa 10142 - Data Structure, 115 - UVa 10143 - Threes, 96 - UVa 10144 - Nobody's Fool, 141 - UVa 10145 - Floating Point, 76 - UVa 10146 - Graduate, 153 - UVa 10147 - Just Repeats, 112 - UVa 10148 - Set Cover, 124 - UVa 10149 - Prepare for Battles, 26 - UVa 10150 - Reversed, 34 - UVa 10151 - Decimal Shift, 151 - UVa 10152 - Standard Deviation, 82 - UVa 10153 - Arithmetic, 46 - UVa 10154 - Surface, 86 - UVa 10155 - Bridging a Gap, 136 - UVa 10156 - Logic, 117 - UVa 10157 - Danger in Fire, 121 - UVa 10158 - Trivial Numbers, 196 - UVa 10159 - Sort, 37 - UVa 10160 - Graph Representation, 23 - UVa 10161 - Gopher and Hawks, 94 - UVa 10162 - Perfect Parrot, 138 - UVa 10163 - Can You Take Home?, 162 - UVa 10164 - How to Eat a Cheeseburger?, 125 - UVa 10165 - Rara Rasa Princess, 102 - UVa 10166 - The Winking, 44 - UVa 10167 - The Fiestas, 109 - UVa 10168 - Malicious Geeks, 31 - UVa 10169 - Erasing to Produce, 239 - UVa 10170 - Queuing, 59 - UVa 10171 - Simple, 11 - UVa 10172 - Graph Construction, 37 ``` #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 53 Context: ```markdown printf("%d\n", fs.req(1, 1)); // 0 => req[0] = 0 printf("%d\n", fs.req(1, 2)); // 1 => req[1] = 1 printf("%d\n", fs.req(1, 5)); // 4 => req[4] = 5 + 2 = 7 printf("%d\n", fs.req(1, 8)); // 7 => req[7] = 1 // return 0; Example code: ch2/10/functions.cpp, ch2/10/functions.cpp.java ## Exercise 2.3.4.1: RWeighted Tree RWeighted Trees have an additional operation: Find the index with a given cumulative frequency. For example, we want to know what is the minimum index (row) in Table 2.2 so that there are at least 7 strikes covered (Answer = index/score 6). Implement this feature! ## Exercise 2.3.4.2: Extend the ID RWeighted Tree to 2D Programming exercises that have data structures with our own libraries: 1. Graph Data Structures Problems (most common graph problems are discussed in Chapter 4) 1. **UVA 10973 - The Forest of the Trees** (apply the property of depth first) 2. **UVA 12029 - Graph Construction** (Double-Ended Queue list) 3. **UVA 10975 - Matrix Transforming** (transforming arrays) 4. **UVA 1098 - Day and Night** (sorting and adjacency list) 5. **UVA 11781 - Bug Problems** (turning on/off lights) 6. **UVA 11304 - Money and Income** (using adjacency list) 7. **UVA 11901 - Easy Problem** (form a queue from the list of adjacency list) 2. Unique-Path Digits: 1. **UVA 1006 - Dijkstra's Algorithm** (sparse weighted graph) 2. **UVA 10805 - Cell Phones** (finds the number of paths) 3. **UVA 10662 - Blinking Lights** (find optimal path) 4. **UVA 11214 - Waiting time** (group search approach with trees) 5. **UVA 12597 - Mysterious Cargo** (nested queries) 6. **UVA 11064 - NQueens* (__same as classic N problem__)** 7. **UVA 12012 - Arctic Pirates** (required the entire subtree) 8. **UVA 10192 - Making Friends** (count sum queries) 9. **UVA 11771 - Murdering Suspects** (solve linear search) Note: "Since the problem given is a fixed sized problem, you can fix the relation between the number of edges and the number of vertices in the respective examples. You may also find that the number of additional components may change based on these inputs. Keep in mind the system's bounds: E = F + S, where E is the number of edges." ``` #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 170 Context: # 6.3 AD HOC STRING PROCESSING PROBLEMS ### © Steven & Felix 1. **UVA 0038** - **Wet Samurai** (read the first character from left to right) 2. **UVA 0042** - **Pig Latin** (read like UVa 653) 3. **UVA 0051** - **The Lazy Typist** (reverse the given words and initials) 4. **UVA 0063** - **Samurais Invasion** (standard dynamic programming) 5. **UVA 0070** - **Barbershop Data** (just simulate the process) 6. **UVA 0074** - **Euclid's Cypher** (generate a new linear poly) 7. **UVA 0080** - **Cry for Help** (palindrome attack) 8. **UVA 0082** - **Substitution Cypher** (simple character substitution mapping) 9. **UVA 0100** - **Decoding the Mall** (image highlighting variations) 10. **UVA 0111** - **2D Polygram** (detect spacing, 'hit', or read from bottom) 11. **UVA 0125** - **Decoding the Map** (complete search problems using text scanner) 12. **UVA 0129** - **Finding the Negative Mark** (complete possible solutions to ticketing) 13. **UVA 1132** - **Decoding the Message** (offer instructions in the problem) 14. **UVA 1154** - **Decoding Text** (generating multiple variations) 15. **UVA 1167** - **Paranoid Cypher** (bulk for distribution, a bit tedious) 16. **UVA 1176** - **Digital Fortress** (simple display) 17. **UVA 1178** - **Journal Hiriglyphs** (following the description) ### Prerequisite Counting 1. **UVA 1003** - **Word Problem** (get letter frequency of each word, compare with puzzle lines) 2. **UVA 1004** - **Password Standard** (read the key, track the word frequency) 3. **UVA 1005** - **Hash** (return absolute frequency count) 4. **UVA 1006** - **Roll on the Frequency** (ASCII character frequency count) 5. **UVA 1007** - **Common Parity** (count the frequency of each alphabet) 6. **UVA 1008** - **Constructing the Frequencies** (maintain and update frequency distributions in times) 7. **UVA 1009** - **GUN = GUN** (trick to get letter frequencies identified in times) 8. **UVA 1010** - **Can you decode it?** (problem ideas beside this sub problem) 9. **UVA 1018** - **Letter Pregnancy** (string/word problem) ### Import Parity 1. **UVA 1021** - **Simple Syntax** (grammar check, line syntax) 2. **UVA 1027** - **Constructing Legal Parsing** (take the rule mentioned in description) 3. **UVA 1030** - **Language G** (compiling grammar...) 4. **UVA 1031** - **Syntax Tree** (teaching parsing) 5. **UVA 1032** - **Dynamic Grammar Parsing** (returning EBNF) 6. **UVA 1073** - **The MITM Challenge** (return error check/exhaustion) 7. **UVA 1074** - **To Cubic Ratios** (alternative ratios real graphical expressions) 8. **UVA 1084** - **Number of Paths** (recursive parsing paths counting) #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 254 Context: ``` INDEX © Steven & Felix - UVa 00776 - Monkeys in a Regular Forest, 83 - UVa 00772 - Computer Painting, 83 - UVa 00771 - Card Capture, 83 - UVa 00787 - Maximum Subsequence Sum, 63 - UVa 00789 - Knapsack, 47 - UVa 00785 - Santhosh's Cipher, 154 - UVa 00783 - The 2D Game, 163 - UVa 00811 - The Egg Toss, 104 - UVa 00821 - Page Hoping, 2 - UVa 00824 - Coat Factory, 32 - UVa 00823 - Walking on the Sidewalk, 111 - UVa 00843 - Water Fills, 163 - UVa 00841 - Continued Fractions, 123 - UVa 00840 - Largest Submatrix, 85 - UVa 00837 - Y - M - A, 17 - UVa 00838 - Not a Tree, 119 - UVa 00834 - Steps, 126 - UVa 00831 - A Multiplication Issue, 146 - UVa 00825 - Depth First Search, 11 - UVa 00826 - The Vigenere Cipher, 54 - UVa 00824 - Subset Sum Problem, 154 - UVa 00823 - Subtotaling, 6 - UVa 00827 - Airplane Compensation, 100 - UVa 00812 - Cell Counting, 61 - UVa 00811 - Routing, 93 - UVa 00820 - Shortest Path, 93 - UVa 00822 - Pascal's Triangle, 28 - UVa 00789 - Jumping Champion, 134 - UVa 00783 - Intersecting, 132 - UVa 00829 - Walking Around Wesley, 111 - UVa 00827 - Integer Sequence from ..., 44 - UVa 00925 - Eternal Truths, 94 - UVa 00929 - Number Maze, 94 - UVa 00924 - Climbing the N-Queens, 45 - UVa 00921 - Water Fills, 45 - UVa 00911 - Permutations, 5 - UVa 00914 - The Grapevine, 155 - UVa 00915 - Flipped Numbers, 129 - UVa 00672 - Pope, 50 - UVa 00661 - The 5th Dimension, 172 - UVa 00653 - Circus, 202 - UVa 00674 - Special Numbers, 124 - UVa 00697 - Subtracting, 17 - UVa 00699 - Next, 72 - UVa 00680 - Simple Minds, 104 - UVa 00663 - Sequence, 111 - UVa 00681 - Safe and Sound, 111 - UVa 00705 - Palindromic Number, 3 - UVa 00114 - Space Station, 1 - UVa 00955 - White Trees, 18 - UVa 00100 - All Roads Lead to Whose?, 94 - UVa 00116 - Context Free Languages, 128 - UVa 00100 - Including Well, 5 - UVa 00109 - All Roads Lead to Whose?, 94 - UVa 00112 - Super Egg Drop, 128 - UVa 00114 - Simple Calculator, 123 - UVa 00116 - Flip the Squartable, 24 - UVa 00109 - Minimal Conjecture, 54 - UVa 00111 - Ad-hoc Problems, 47 - UVa 00112 - Vectors, 14 - UVa 00116 - Pizzerias, 65 - UVa 00111 - Geometry, 53 - UVa 00110 - The Impossible, 6 - UVa 00107 - The Joker, 48 - UVa 00115 - Tubes, 111 - UVa 00106 - What is the Probability?, 122 ``` #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 189 Context: # 6.6 SUFFIX TREE/ TREE/ ARRAY **Steven & Policy** The length of the longest repeated substring is just the highest number in the LCP array. In Table 6.5, that corresponds to the suffix array and the LCP of `GATACA`: the highest number is 2 at index 6. The first 2 corresponds to the concatenating suffixes `GAT` (suffix 0) is `GAT`. This is the longest repeated substring in T. ## Longest Common Substring in O(n) Without loss of generality, let us consider the case with only two strings. We see the same example as in the Suffix Tree exercise: `T1 = GATACA` and `T2 = CATCA`. To solve the LCS problem using Suffix Arrays, we first concatenate both strings. We need to produce `T = GATACACATCA`. The Suffix Array and LCP array for T can be produced as follows: | SA | LCP | Owner | Suffixes | |----|-----|-------|----------------------| | 0 | 2 | 2/N/A| GATACA | | 1 | 0 | 0 | ACATCA | | 2 | 0 | 1 | CATCA | | 3 | 1 | 0 | ATACA | | 4 | 1 | 1 | TACA | | 5 | 0 | 0 | ACA | | 6 | 0 | 1 | CCA | | 7 | 0 | 0 | GA | | 8 | 1 | 1 | CA | | 9 | 0 | 0 | GACATCA | | 10 | 0 | 1 | GATACACA | Figure 6.8. The Suffix Array, LCP, and Owner of T = `GATACACATCA`. ### Programming Exercises Related to Suffix Arrays: 1. **UVA 10790** - DNA Sequencing (mini competitive metrics). 2. **UVA 00760** - LCS Sequencing (Longest Common Substring between two strings). 3. **UVA 11711** - LCS Frames (Longest Repeated Substring). 4. **UVA 12019** - Literal (Sonic, Longest Repeated Substring (KMP)). 5. **UVA 13019** - Element Search (Binary Search). 6. **UVA 12370** - Finding Doubles (Suffix Array + Sequence LCS, problem author: Felix Halim). 7. **UVA 10570** - Suffix Array (problem author: Felix Halim). ## Exercise 6.6.1: Find the LRS in T = `GACATCATTA`. Build the Suffix Array first. Exercise 6.6.2: Find the Longest Common Substring of T = `STEVE` and T = `SEVER`. Build the Suffix Array and compute the longest suffix. #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 242 Context: # Hunting the Next Easiest Problems Using 'daco' ![Figure B.2: Hunting the next easiest problems using 'daco'](image_path) Another new feature since 2010 is the integration of the 1198 programming exercises from this book (see Figure B.3). Now, users can customize their training programs to solve problems of similar type! Without each (manual) categorization, this training mode is hard to execute. We also give stars (★) to problems that we consider as *must try* (up to 3 problems per category). ![Figure B.3: The programming exercises in this book are integrated in uHuxt](image_path) Building a web-based tool like uHuxt is a computational challenge. There are over 990867 submissions from 113059 users (based on submissions from every contest). The statistics and rankings must be updated frequently and each user’s profile must be fast. To deal with this challenge, Felix uses lots of advanced data structures (some are beyond this book), e.g., database caching [16], Rawik lists, data compression, etc. ![Figure B.4: Steven's & Felix's progress in UVa online judge (2000-present)](image_path) ## Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. Programming Exercises 3. Training Features 4. Computational Challenges 5. Acknowledgments | Year | Steven | Felix | |------|--------|-------| | 2000 | Preparing CP book 1st | | | 2006 | | Won ICPC Kaohsiung 06 | Progress over the Years **References** - UVa Online Judge - ACM ICPC Koshien 226 #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 252 Context: ``` # INDEX - **UVa 00049** - Transferrable Voting (III), 17 - **UVa 00520** - Problem/Beans Numbers*, 145 - **UVa 00632** - Seasonal War, 58 - **UVa 01263** - Playful Pentominoes, 166 - **UVa 01375** - The Boxes Are Locked, 128 - **UVa 01434** - Let Me Count The Ways*, 0 - **UVa 01601** - Cops and Robbers, 164 - **UVa 01820** - Isolated School Termination, 171 - **UVa 01874** - A-B Block*, 123 - **UVa 02047** - Isolated Cities and ..., 181 - **UVa 02703** - Interactive Lens, 181 - **UVa 02813** - Call for Turing, 45 - **UVa 02851** - Making the Grade, 17 - **UVa 03634** - Perfect Numbers, 123 - **UVa 03668** - Shuffling Routes, 94 - **UVa 03680** - Perfect Cubes, 84 - **UVa 03806** - Message Fortunes, 17 - **UVa 03820** - Majors, 154 - **UVa 03920** - Paring Down, 124 - **UVa 04029** - Multiple Skewedness, 124 - **UVa 04115** - The Range of Maximums, 134 - **UVa 04167** - The Greatest Spanning*, 129 - **UVa 04206** - The Reversal, 89 - **UVa 04302** - Random Walks, 129 - **UVa 04315** - Power of Chains, 86 - **UVa 04376** - M is for Murder, 189 - **UVa 04391** - Smooth Links, 98 - **UVa 04401** - Lotto, 44 - **UVa 04412** - Matrix Chain Multiplication, 154 - **UVa 04441** - Knapsack Job, 28 - **UVa 04464** - Extended Bar Decoder, 187 - **UVa 04465** - Marvelous Masks, 156 - **UVa 04476** - Hobbies in Bi-*, 128 - **UVa 04500** - COVID-19, 126 - **UVa 04502** - Little Black Book, 25 - **UVa 04516** - Project Euler, 251 - **UVa 04543** - Perspective String, 159 - **UVa 04647** - Elementary Cellular Automata, 17 - **UVa 04649** - Graph Connectivity*, 17 - **UVa 04664** - Sieve of Eratosthenes, 186 - **UVa 04665** - Semidefinite/Primal Generation, 154 - **UVa 04676** - Overlapping Segments, 28 - **UVa 04689** - Syzygies, 24 - **UVa 04692** - Key to Success, 43 - **UVa 04701** - Play 2 win*, 24 - **UVa 04713** - Painless Rockers*, 421 - **UVa 04723** - Realistic Probability, 142 - **UVa 04736** - Repeated Mistakes, 186 - **UVa 04737** - Points in Figures*, 184 - **UVa 04841** - Simple Math, 22 - **UVa 04851** - Smart Programming, 156 - **UVa 04852** - Peeking, 25 - **UVa 04862** - Factorial Games, 58 - **UVa 04888** - Kindness, 155 - **UVa 04917** - Snappy Scaling, 25 - **UVa 04931** - To Play or Not?, 15 - **UVa 04949** - Hangman, 25 - **UVa 04952** - Bridge Counting Games, 15 - **UVa 04962** - Para-Ellipses, 156 - **UVa 04969** - Fishers Counting, 25 - **UVa 04990** - Unops, 67 - **UVa 05000** - Sum Game, 185 - **UVa 05002** - Parallel Polar, 162 - **UVa 05110** - Eager Money Moo, 16 - **UVa 05120** - Two-Lane Setup Problems, 45 - **UVa 05154** - Prime and Valid, 66 - **UVa 05246** - Prime Line Problem, 48 - **UVa 05258** - Stolen Showdown, 131 - **UVa 05311** - Compromise, 162 ``` #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 23 Context: Chapter3LearningThischapteriswithoutquestionthemostimportantoneofthebook.Itconcernsthecore,almostphilosophicalquestionofwhatlearningreallyis(andwhatitisnot).Ifyouwanttorememberonethingfromthisbookyouwillfindithereinthischapter.Ok,let’sstartwithanexample.Alicehasaratherstrangeailment.Sheisnotabletorecognizeobjectsbytheirvisualappearance.Atherhomesheisdoingjustfine:hermotherexplainedAliceforeveryobjectinherhousewhatisisandhowyouuseit.Whensheishome,sherecognizestheseobjects(iftheyhavenotbeenmovedtoomuch),butwhensheentersanewenvironmentsheislost.Forexample,ifsheentersanewmeetingroomsheneedsalongtimetoinferwhatthechairsandthetableareintheroom.Shehasbeendiagnosedwithaseverecaseof”overfitting”.WhatisthematterwithAlice?Nothingiswrongwithhermemorybecausesherememberstheobjectsonceshehasseemthem.Infact,shehasafantasticmemory.Sherememberseverydetailoftheobjectsshehasseen.Andeverytimesheseesanewobjectsshereasonsthattheobjectinfrontofherissurelynotachairbecauseitdoesn’thaveallthefeaturesshehasseeninear-lierchairs.TheproblemisthatAlicecannotgeneralizetheinformationshehasobservedfromoneinstanceofavisualobjectcategorytoother,yetunobservedmembersofthesamecategory.ThefactthatAlice’sdiseaseissorareisunder-standabletheremusthavebeenastrongselectionpressureagainstthisdisease.Imagineourancestorswalkingthroughthesavannaonemillionyearsago.Alionappearsonthescene.AncestralAlicehasseenlionsbefore,butnotthisparticularoneanditdoesnotinduceafearresponse.Ofcourse,shehasnotimetoinferthepossibilitythatthisanimalmaybedangerouslogically.Alice’scontemporariesnoticedthattheanimalwasyellow-brown,hadmanesetc.andimmediatelyun-11 #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 188 Context: # 6.6 SUFFIX TREE/TREE/ARRAY ### Steven & Feliks PLCP theorem says that the total number of increase (and decrease) operations is at most \( O(n) \). This pattern and this \( O(n) \) paradigm are explored in the code below. First, we compute PLCP, which stores the lengths of suffixes \( SA[i] \) in Suffix Array order. By definition, PLCP[0] = 0; there is no suffix that precedes suffix \( SA[0] \). Take some time to verify the correctness of column PrL in Table 6.5, right. For example, PrL[3] = 2, PrL[1] = 3, PrL[3] = 1. | Lexicographic Order | Position Order | |---------------------|----------------| | SA[0] | 0 | | AGACA | 0 | | SA[1] | 2 | | AGA | 1 | | SA[2] | 3 | | CA | 2 | | SA[3] | 5 | | GACA | 3 | | SA[4] | 6 | | GACACA | 4 | | SA[5] | 7 | | AGACACA | 5 | **Table 6.5:** Computing the Longest Common Prefix (LCP) given the SA of `GATACACA` Now, with PrL[1], we can compute the permuted LCP. The first step of this algorithm is elaborated below. When \( i = 0 \), we have PrL[0] = 0. The suffix `GATACACA` has suffix `CA` at position 2 in its LCP order. The first two characters (a, c) are the first that satisfy the lexicographic order. The idea to advance is as such: ```c void computeLCP() { int i = 1; // default value for (int j = 1; j < n; i++) { // remember which suffix is behind this suffix LCP[SA[i]] = LCP[i - 1]; // compute permuted LCP while (i + LCP[SA[i]] < n && text[LCP[SA[i]]] == text[i + LCP[SA[i]]]) { LCP[SA[i]]++; // will be increased at most n times } } for (i = 1; i < n; i++) { // compute LCP in O(n) LCP[i] = PLCP[SA[i]]; // the permuted LCP back to the correct position } } ``` ### Longest Repeated Substring in \( O(n) \) If we have computed the Suffix Array and the LCP between consecutive suffixes in Suffix Array order, we can determine the length of the Longest Repeated Substring (LRS) of \( T \) in \( O(n) \). #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 168 Context: # 6.2 BASIC STRING PROCESSING SKILLS **Stevens & Felix** 1. (a) Do you know how to store a string in your favorite programming language? (b) How to read a given text input line by line? (c) How to concatenate (combine) two strings into a larger string? (d) How to check if a string starts with `......` to stop reading input? I love CS2333 Competitive Programming. I also love AlgoRhythm! > **Note:** You must stop after reading this line as it starts with 7 dots; after the first input block, there will be one looooocccccccoooooong line... 2. Suppose you have your own string `T`. You want to check if another string `P` can be found in `T`. Report all the indices where `P` appears in `T` (if `P` cannot be found in `T`, return `-1`). For example, if `T` = "I love CS2333 Competitive Programming." and `P` = "love", then output should be: - If `P` is not found, the character `-1` at index (0) is part of the output. If `P` is found, `output = [2, 49]` if `P` = "book", then output is `[-1]`. 3. How to find the first occurrence of a substring in a string (if any)? (a) Do we need to implement a string matching algorithm (like Knuth-Morris-Pratt (KMP) algorithm discussed in Section 6.4), or can we just use library functions? 4. Suppose we want to do some simple analysis of the characters in `T` and also to transform each character into 1-byte ASCII codes. The required analysis are: How many digits, vowels, and consonants (other lower/upper case alphabetic characters that are not vowels) are there in `T`? Can you also list them? 5. Next, we want to break this line using string tokens (delimiters) and store them into an array of strings (token). For this task, the delimiters will be those two spaces and punctuation marks (commas, semicolons, and so forth). For example, using `T`: - We will have the tokens `['I', 'love', 'CS2333', 'Competitive', 'Programming']`. 6. (a) How to store an array of strings? 7. Next, we want to sort this array of strings lexicographically? (a) Start with how you would rewrite the initial list. 8. The given list has one more item like the one listed that starts with `......`. The length of this list item is not constrained. Count how many characters are there in the last item? 9. (a) How to read a string when we do not know its length in advance? > *Note: This text is a text similar like the one used in our common dictionary.* Page 152 #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 56 Context: 44CHAPTER8.SUPPORTVECTORMACHINESwillleadtoconvexoptimizationproblemsforpositiveintegersk.Fork=1,2itisstillaquadraticprogram(QP).Inthefollowingwewillchoosek=1.Ccontrolsthetradeoffbetweenthepenaltyandmargin.Tobeonthewrongsideoftheseparatinghyperplane,adata-casewouldneedξi>1.Hence,thesumPiξicouldbeinterpretedasmeasureofhow“bad”theviolationsareandisanupperboundonthenumberofviolations.Thenewprimalproblemthusbecomes,minimizew,b,ξLP=12||w||2+CXiξisubjecttoyi(wTxi−b)−1+ξi≥0∀i(8.22)ξi≥0∀i(8.23)leadingtotheLagrangian,L(w,b,ξ,α,µ)=12||w||2+CXiξi−NXi=1αi(cid:2)yi(wTxi−b)−1+ξi(cid:3)−NXi=1µiξi(8.24)fromwhichwederivetheKKTconditions,1.∂wLP=0→w−Xiαiyixi=0(8.25)2.∂bLP=0→Xiαiyi=0(8.26)3.∂ξLP=0→C−αi−µi=0(8.27)4.constraint-1yi(wTxi−b)−1+ξi≥0(8.28)5.constraint-2ξi≥0(8.29)6.multipliercondition-1αi≥0(8.30)7.multipliercondition-2µi≥0(8.31)8.complementaryslackness-1αi(cid:2)yi(wTxi−b)−1+ξi(cid:3)=0(8.32)9.complementaryslackness-1µiξi=0(8.33)(8.34)Fromherewecandeducethefollowingfacts.Ifweassumethatξi>0,thenµi=0(9),henceαi=C(1)andthusξi=1−yi(xTiw−b)(8).Also,whenξi=0wehaveµi>0(9)andhenceαi0(8).Otherwise,ifyi(wTxi−b)−1>0 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Chapter6TheNaiveBayesianClassifierInthischapterwewilldiscussthe“NaiveBayes”(NB)classifier.Ithasproventobeveryusefulinmanyapplicationbothinscienceaswellasinindustry.IntheintroductionIpromisedIwouldtrytoavoidtheuseofprobabilitiesasmuchaspossible.However,inchapterI’llmakeanexception,becausetheNBclassifierismostnaturallyexplainedwiththeuseofprobabilities.Fortunately,wewillonlyneedthemostbasicconcepts.6.1TheNaiveBayesModelNBismostlyusedwhendealingwithdiscrete-valuedattributes.Wewillexplainthealgorithminthiscontextbutnotethatextensionstocontinuous-valuedat-tributesarepossible.Wewillrestrictattentiontoclassificationproblemsbetweentwoclassesandrefertosection??forapproachestoextendthistwomorethantwoclasses.InourusualnotationweconsiderDdiscretevaluedattributesXi∈[0,..,Vi],i=1..D.NotethateachattributecanhaveadifferentnumberofvaluesVi.Iftheorig-inaldatawassuppliedinadifferentformat,e.g.X1=[Yes,No],thenwesimplyreassignthesevaluestofittheaboveformat,Yes=1,No=0(orreversed).Inadditionwearealsoprovidedwithasupervisedsignal,inthiscasethelabelsareY=0andY=1indicatingthatthatdata-itemfellinclass0orclass1.Again,whichclassisassignedto0or1isarbitraryandhasnoimpactontheperformanceofthealgorithm.Beforewemoveon,let’sconsiderarealworldexample:spam-filtering.Everydayyourmailboxget’sbombardedwithhundredsofspamemails.Togivean25 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8.1.THENON-SEPARABLECASE45thenαi=0.Insummary,asbeforeforpointsnotonthesupportplaneandonthecorrectsidewehaveξi=αi=0(allconstraintsinactive).Onthesupportplane,westillhaveξi=0,butnowαi>0.Finally,fordata-casesonthewrongsideofthesupporthyperplanetheαimax-outtoαi=Candtheξibalancetheviolationoftheconstraintsuchthatyi(wTxi−b)−1+ξi=0.Geometrically,wecancalculatethegapbetweensupporthyperplaneandtheviolatingdata-casetobeξi/||w||.Thiscanbeseenbecausetheplanedefinedbyyi(wTx−b)−1+ξi=0isparalleltothesupportplaneatadistance|1+yib−ξi|/||w||fromtheorigin.Sincethesupportplaneisatadistance|1+yib|/||w||theresultfollows.Finally,weneedtoconverttothedualproblemtosolveitefficientlyandtokerneliseit.Again,weusetheKKTequationstogetridofw,bandξ,maximizeLD=NXi=1αi−12XijαiαjyiyjxTixjsubjecttoXiαiyi=0(8.35)0≤αi≤C∀i(8.36)Surprisingly,thisisalmostthesameQPisbefore,butwithanextraconstraintonthemultipliersαiwhichnowliveinabox.Thisconstraintisderivedfromthefactthatαi=C−µiandµi≥0.WealsonotethatitonlydependsoninnerproductsxTixjwhicharereadytobekernelised. 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41Thus,wemaximizethemargin,subjecttotheconstraintsthatalltrainingcasesfalloneithersideofthesupporthyper-planes.Thedata-casesthatlieonthehyperplanearecalledsupportvectors,sincetheysupportthehyper-planesandhencedeterminethesolutiontotheproblem.Theprimalproblemcanbesolvedbyaquadraticprogram.However,itisnotreadytobekernelised,becauseitsdependenceisnotonlyoninnerproductsbetweendata-vectors.Hence,wetransformtothedualformulationbyfirstwritingtheproblemusingaLagrangian,L(w,b,α)=12||w||2−NXi=1αi(cid:2)yi(wTxi−b)−1(cid:3)(8.7)ThesolutionthatminimizestheprimalproblemsubjecttotheconstraintsisgivenbyminwmaxαL(w,α),i.e.asaddlepointproblem.Whentheoriginalobjective-functionisconvex,(andonlythen),wecaninterchangetheminimizationandmaximization.Doingthat,wefindthatwecanfindtheconditiononwthatmustholdatthesaddlepointwearesolvingfor.Thisisdonebytakingderivativeswrtwandbandsolving,w−Xiαiyixi=0⇒w∗=Xiαiyixi(8.8)Xiαiyi=0(8.9)InsertingthisbackintotheLagrangianweobtainwhatisknownasthedualprob-lem,maximizeLD=NXi=1αi−12XijαiαjyiyjxTixjsubjecttoXiαiyi=0(8.10)αi≥0∀i(8.11)Thedualformulationoftheproblemisalsoaquadraticprogram,butnotethatthenumberofvariables,αiinthisproblemisequaltothenumberofdata-cases,N.Thecrucialpointishowever,thatthisproblemonlydependsonxithroughtheinnerproductxTixj.ThisisreadilykernelisedthroughthesubstitutionxTixj→k(xi,xj).Thisisarecurrenttheme:thedualproblemlendsitselftokernelisation,whiletheprimalproblemdidnot. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 58 Context: 46CHAPTER8.SUPPORTVECTORMACHINES #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 229 Context: # Appendix A ## Hints/Brief Solutions In this appendix, you will see the hints or brief solutions for many—but not all—mini exercises in this book. Please refrain from looking at the solutions unless necessary. ## Chapter 1 ### Exercise 1.2.1: The complete Table A.1 is shown below. | UVA | Title | Problem Type | Hint | |-------|---------------------------------|-------------------------------------------|----------------------------| | 10034 | Raid Attack | Complete Search or Dynamic Programming | Section 3.2 or 3.5 | | 10334 | Lazy Caterer | Divide & Conquer (Brute Force) | Section 3.1 | | 11292 | Dragon of Lorestone | Greedy (Non Classical) | Section 3.4 | | 11511 | Wedding Shopping | DP (Non Classical) | Section 3.5 | | 11512 | Boring Book | Graph Decomposition (Dijkstra's & BFS) | Section 6.2 | | 11505 | Angry Programmer | Graph (Cut & Mark) | Section 4.1 | | 12177 | Mysterious Numbers | Decompositions: Complete Search & Math | Section 6.6 | | 11714 | GATTACA | String (Suffix Array, LCP, KMP) | Section 6.2 | | 10065 | Incisive Titles | Geometry (Convex Hull - Area of Polygon) | Section 6.7 | **Table A.1: Exercise: Classify These UVA Problems** ### Exercise 1.2.2: The answers are: 1. (a) Use priority queue data structure (heap) (Section 2.2). 2. (b) If it is static: (i) Simple Array that is pre-processed with Dynamic Programming (Section 2.2.1 & 15). If dynamic: then (ii) Revise Tree is a better answer (select to implement than Segment Tree). 3. (a) Yes, such complete search is possible (Section 2.3). 4. (d) Dynamic Programming (Sections 5.3, 4.2, 6.7). 5. (a) See the references (Section 5.5). 6. (b) The three apps about can work well. Use KMP or Suffix Array (Section 6.4 & 6.6)! 7. (b) Find the answer for simple stuff: Find the Course Hull of the points in O(n log n) (Section 7.3). Let the number of points in CH(P) = S, H = C * N. Then, find two functions on related to the answer for same points in the CH(P) in O(CH). #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 97 Context: # 4.2 GRAPH TRAVERSAL *Steven & Felix* There are at least two known algorithms to find SCCs: Kosaraju's—explained in [8]—and Tarjan's algorithm. In this book, we rewrite Tarjan's version, as it extends naturally from our previous discussion of finding articulation points and bridges. The essence of the algorithm is that SCCs can be treated as the DFS spanning tree (recall the original directed graph and the DFS spanning tree in Figure 4.1). Vertices in the DFS spanning tree with (1) a root (start) of an SCC (wherever it is) and (2) endpoints, \(i\), \(j\), and \(k\) (as in Figure 4.3). The code below applies the directed graph and reports its SCCs. ```cpp int dfs_num = 0, dfs_visited = 0; // global variables void tarjanSCC() { dfs_num++; // dfs_num < dfs_num dfs_stack.push_back(dfs_num); // stores in a vector based on order of visitation visited[d] = 1; for (int j = 0; j < (int)AdjList[d].size(); j++) { if (visited[AdjList[d][j]] == DFS_WHITE) { tarjanSCC(AdjList[d][j]); // condition for update } dfs_low[d] = min(dfs_low[d], dfs_low[AdjList[d][j]].first); } if (dfs_low[d] == dfs_num) { // if this is a root (start) of an SCC printf("SCC: {"); /* this part is done after recursion */ while (1) { Y = stack.pop_back(); visited[Y] = 0; printf("%d, ", Y); if (Y == d) break; } printf("}\n"); } } // inside main() dfs_num.assign(N, DFS_WHITE); dfs_low.assign(N, 0); visited.assign(N, 0); dfs_num_counter = 0; for (int i = 0; i < V; i++) { if (visited[i] == DFS_WHITE) { tarjanSCC(); } } // For the sample graph in Figure 4.8, the output is like this: // SCC 1: { ... } // SCC 2: { ... } ## Exercise 4.2.3 Study Kosaraju's algorithm for finding Strongly Connected Components (discussed in [8]) and then decide which one is simpler: Tarjan's or Kosaraju's? ### Exercise 4.2.3.1 As it states that "if two vertices are in the same SCC, then there is an edge between them," how does the SCC? ### Example codes: * `ch4_2_1dfs.cpp` * `ch4_2_1v469s.cpp` * `ch4_2_1dfs.java` * `ch4_2_1v469.java` Page 81 #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 20 Context: ``` 1.2 TIPS TO BE COMPETITIVE © Steven & Felix ```c // we use gets(line) to read input line by line line(ascii(gets(line), 'x', 3) // yes, we can do this :) for (i = 0; i < 2 * K; i++) scanf (format, &x1, &name, &x2, &y1); for (i = 0; j < 2 * j; j++) // build pairwise distance table dist[i][j] = hypot(double(x1-x[j]), double(y1-y[j])); // Are you used 'hypot' before? // use DP to give minimum weighted perfect matching on small general graph // this is to trick to initialize the meme table with +1 memset(table, -1, sizeof(table)); printf("Case %d: %.2f\n", caseNo, matching()); } ``` FYI, the explanation of this Dynamic Programming algorithm with bitmask technique is given in Section 2.2.1, 3, and 4.1. You do not have to be alarmed if you do not understand it yet. ## 1.21 Tip 2: Quickly Identify Problem Types In ICPCs, the contestants (teams) are given a set of problems (6-7 problems) of varying types. From our database of recent ICPC Asia Regional problems, we can categorize the problems types and their relative appearances as in Table 1. From 1996-2000, the problem setters were given 1 task or 2 tasks (as in 2011) that cover items 1 to 10 in the problem set, and the number of problems from 1-10 in Table 1. For details, please refer to the ICPC 2009 [pub] and the last 1998-2000 problems classification. [1] | No. | Category | Instruction (as in book) | Appearance Frequency | |-----|-----------------------------------------|------------------------------------------|----------------------| | 1 | Math Problem (Iterative/Recursive) | Section 3.1 | 2-3 | | 2 | Divide & Conquer | Section 3.2 | 1-2 | | 3 | Greediness | Section 3.3 | 1-2 | | 4 | Dynamic Programming (only the original ones) | Section 3.4 | 1-2 (can go up to 3) | | 5 | Graph Problems | Chapter 4 | 1-2 | | 6 | String Processing | Chapter 5 | 1 | | 7 | Computational Geometry | Chapter 6 | 1 | | 8 | Some Fractals Problems | Chapter 7 | 1 | | 9 | Algorithm Shortcuts | Chapter 8 | 1 | | 10 | Miscellaneous Problems | Chapter 9 | 1 | Table 1: Recent ACM ICPC Asia Regional Problem Types The classification above is helpful for you to tackle some contests. Some problems, e.g., "construct," are classified here as an 'art' or 'trial' and may used as a 'non-standard' in a broader category. Remember that analysis is so crucial in solving these problems. You will find this aids in quickly understanding and matching problems. ``` #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 15 Context: aifnecessarybeforeapplyingstandardalgorithms.Inthenextsectionwe’lldiscusssomestandardpreprocessingopera-tions.Itisoftenadvisabletovisualizethedatabeforepreprocessingandanalyzingit.Thiswilloftentellyouifthestructureisagoodmatchforthealgorithmyouhadinmindforfurtheranalysis.Chapter??willdiscusssomeelementaryvisual-izationtechniques. #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 212 Context: # 7.5 Chapter Notes Some materials in this chapter are derived from the materials courtesy of Dr. Cheng Huan, Alan from School of Computing, National University of Singapore. Some other library functions are constructed from Loyer Navigator's book library: [http://ghyper.com/tools/](http://ghyper.com/tools/). Compared to the first edition of this book, this chapter has grown much more in size. Similar case is with Chapters 5 and 6. However, the materials introduced here are still far from complete, especially for competitive programming contests. If you are preparing for ICPC, it is a good idea to dedicate one person in your team to study this topic in depth. This person should master both complexity formulas and relevant computational geometry techniques, perhaps by reading relevant chapters in the following books: (1) 3, 5, 7. Not just the theory, but also the practical methods for robust geometry solutions that are able to handle degenerate (special) cases and precision errors. The other computational geometry techniques that have not been discussed in this chapter are the plane sweep technique, intersections of other geometric objects including line-segment-line segment intersection, various Divide and Conquer solutions for several classical geometry problems: The Closest Pair Problem, The Furthest Pair Problem, Rotating Calipers algorithm, etc. There are 99 UVa (+4 others) programming exercises discussed in this chapter. (Only 96 in the first edition, a 7% increase). There are 22 pages in this chapter. (Only 13 in the first edition, a 69% increase). #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 71 Context: Chapter12KernelPrincipalComponentsAnalysisLet’sfistseewhatPCAiswhenwedonotworryaboutkernelsandfeaturespaces.Wewillalwaysassumethatwehavecentereddata,i.e.Pixi=0.Thiscanalwaysbeachievedbyasimpletranslationoftheaxis.Ouraimistofindmeaningfulprojectionsofthedata.However,wearefacinganunsupervisedproblemwherewedon’thaveaccesstoanylabels.Ifwehad,weshouldbedoingLinearDiscriminantAnalysis.Duetothislackoflabels,ouraimwillbetofindthesubspaceoflargestvariance,wherewechoosethenumberofretaineddimensionsbeforehand.Thisisclearlyastrongassumption,becauseitmayhappenthatthereisinterestingsignalinthedirectionsofsmallvariance,inwhichcasePCAinnotasuitabletechnique(andweshouldperhapsuseatechniquecalledindependentcomponentanalysis).However,usuallyitistruethatthedirectionsofsmallestvariancerepresentuninterestingnoise.Tomakeprogress,westartbywritingdownthesample-covariancematrixC,C=1NXixixTi(12.1)Theeigenvaluesofthismatrixrepresentthevarianceintheeigen-directionsofdata-space.Theeigen-vectorcorrespondingtothelargesteigenvalueisthedirec-tioninwhichthedataismoststretchedout.Theseconddirectionisorthogonaltoitandpicksthedirectionoflargestvarianceinthatorthogonalsubspaceetc.Thus,toreducethedimensionalityofthedata,weprojectthedataontothere-59 #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 14 Context: 2CHAPTER1.DATAANDINFORMATIONInterpretation:Hereweseektoanswerquestionsaboutthedata.Forinstance,whatpropertyofthisdrugwasresponsibleforitshighsuccess-rate?Doesasecu-rityofficerattheairportapplyracialprofilingindecidingwho’sluggagetocheck?Howmanynaturalgroupsarethereinthedata?Compression:Hereweareinterestedincompressingtheoriginaldata,a.k.a.thenumberofbitsneededtorepresentit.Forinstance,filesinyourcomputercanbe“zipped”toamuchsmallersizebyremovingmuchoftheredundancyinthosefiles.Also,JPEGandGIF(amongothers)arecompressedrepresentationsoftheoriginalpixel-map.Alloftheaboveobjectivesdependonthefactthatthereisstructureinthedata.Ifdataiscompletelyrandomthereisnothingtopredict,nothingtointerpretandnothingtocompress.Hence,alltasksaresomehowrelatedtodiscoveringorleveragingthisstructure.Onecouldsaythatdataishighlyredundantandthatthisredundancyisexactlywhatmakesitinteresting.Taketheexampleofnatu-ralimages.Ifyouarerequiredtopredictthecolorofthepixelsneighboringtosomerandompixelinanimage,youwouldbeabletodoaprettygoodjob(forinstance20%maybeblueskyandpredictingtheneighborsofablueskypixeliseasy).Also,ifwewouldgenerateimagesatrandomtheywouldnotlooklikenaturalscenesatall.Forone,itwouldn’tcontainobjects.Onlyatinyfractionofallpossibleimageslooks“natural”andsothespaceofnaturalimagesishighlystructured.Thus,alloftheseconceptsareintimatelyrelated:structure,redundancy,pre-dictability,regularity,interpretability,compressibility.Theyrefertothe“food”formachinelearning,withoutstructurethereisnothingtolearn.Thesamethingistrueforhumanlearning.Fromthedaywearebornwestartnoticingthatthereisstructureinthisworld.Oursurvivaldependsondiscoveringandrecordingthisstructure.IfIwalkintothisbrowncylinderwithagreencanopyIsuddenlystop,itwon’tgiveway.Infact,itdamagesmybody.Perhapsthisholdsforalltheseobjects.WhenIcrymymothersuddenlyappears.Ourgameistopredictthefutureaccurately,andwepredictitbylearningitsstructure.1.1DataRepresentationWhatdoes“data”looklike?Inotherwords,whatdowedownloadintoourcom-puter?Datacomesinmany #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 178 Context: # 6.5 STRING PROCESSING WITH DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING ## Steven & Felix For insertion and deletion, let \( s_1 \) and \( s_2 \) be the text to match. ### Exercise 6.5.1. What is the LCS of a = 'apple' and b = 'people'? ### Exercise 6.5.2. The Hamstring distance problem: Find the minimum number of different characters between two strings. Also, this can be reduced to String Alignment problem, which is a natural way. Assign an appropriate cost to match, mismatch, insert, and delete so that we can compute the Hamstring distance between two strings using Needleman-Wunsch's algorithm! ### Exercise 6.5.3. The LCS problem can be solved in \( O(nw) \) where \( w \) is the width of the input. For example, if you are given two permutations as in UVA IDs. Show how to solve this variant. ## 6.5.3 Palindrome A palindrome is a string that can be read the same way in either direction. Some variants of palindrome finding problems are solvable with DP techniques, as shown in this course from UVA 1115 - Longest Palindrome. Given a string of up to 1000 characters, find the longest palindromic subsequence that you can make from it by deleting zero or more characters. Examples: - 'ADAM' → 'ADA' (of length 3, 1 delete) - 'MADAM' → 'MADAM' (of length 5, 0 delete) - 'NEVERODDOR EVEN' → 'NEVERODDOREVEN' (of length 14, 0 delete) The DP solution: let \( len[i, j] \) be the length of the longest palindromic subsequence from string \( A[i..j] \). ### Base cases: - If \( i = j \) then \( len[i, j] = 1 \) // (single-character palindrome) - If \( A[i] = A[j] \) then \( len[i, j] = 2 + len[i + 1, j - 1] \) // (two even-length palindrome) - Otherwise, \( len[i, j] = max(len[i + 1, j], len[i, j - 1]) \) ### Recurrences: If \( A[i] \neq A[j] \) then: - \( len[i, j] = max(len[i + 1, j], len[i, j - 1]) \) ### Programming Exercises related to String Processing with DP: 1. UVA 10614 - String Capstone (String Alignment/Edit Distance) 2. UVA 10613 - Edit Distance (String Alignment/Edit Distance) 3. UVA 10531 - Longest Common Subsequence (Longest Common Subsequence) 4. UVA 10631 - Querying the Twin Towers (Longest Common Subsequence - but not 'string') 5. UVA 10615 - Longest Match (Longest Common Subsequence) 6. UVA 10729 - Longest Common Subsequence (e.g. this can be made simple) 7. UVA 10730 - String Transform (1st UIS for post) 8. UVA 10731 - Longest Palindrome (classic edit distance) 9. UVA 10732 - String Palindrome (test of string pattern) 10. UVA 10733 - String Extraction Sequence (Signature-based String Alignment problem) 11. UVA 11246 - String Partition (dp = integer from characters in [i..k] + dp[k]) 12. UVA 11247 - String Sequence (e.g. Boggle-based String Alignment problem) 13. UVA 11720 - AGTC (Palindrome, classic String Edit problem) *Actually submitting a blank page here does nothing will get Accepted because there is no test data for this problem yet as of August 2011. Anyway, this is a problem that uses LCS methods.* #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 258 Context: # INDEX **© Steven & Felix** UVa 10721 - Bar Codes, 69 UVa 10724 - Road Construction, 100 UVa 10723 - Tax Rates, 32 UVa 10725 - A Different Kind of Candies, 132 UVa 10731 - Timmy’s Interval, 135 UVa 10730 - Striking in Palindrome, 162 UVa 10726 - New Rule in Palindrome, 62 UVa 10740 - “One Time” – The Sequel, 107 UVa 10742 - Maximum Subsequence, 154 UVa 10743 - The Mad Mimeographer, 54 UVa 10744 - Dancer’s Puzzles, 15 UVa 10747 - Minimum Sum Lot, 128 UVa 10749 - The Circle Attack, 60 UVa 10750 - Not That Kind of Graph, 5 UVa 10748 - The Hopping, 5 UVa 10811 - Lumber Minimum, 100 UVa 10812 - The Wonderful Molecule, 207 UVa 10813 - Ultra QuickSort, 51 UVa 10814 - Big Spender, 16 UVa 10815 - Darts, 32 UVa 10816 - Recreational Bingo, 16 UVa 10817 - Amplify’s First Exercises, 28 UVa 10818 - How to Despair, 21 UVa 10819 - Trouble in Paradise, 24 UVa 10820 - The Golf Singularity, 21 UVa 10821 - Scaled & Plates, 86 UVa 10822 - Number of Paths, 154 UVa 10823 - Just like the Ones, 304 UVa 10824 - Occupation: Education, 26 UVa 10825 - Remoting Starts, 420 UVa 10826 - Use the Cable Wires, 130 UVa 10827 - Reverberation, 148 UVa 10828 - Sum the Digits, 124 UVa 10829 - Sherlock, 271 UVa 10830 - Decode the Tape, 4 UVa 10879 - Code Refactoring, 123 UVa 10880 - Coin and Prons, 25 UVa 10881 - Palindrome, 238 UVa 10882 - LCM Calculator, 118 UVa 10884 - Save Timmy’s, 59 UVa 10885 - Multiple Paths, 154 UVa 10886 - Knapsack Problem: Attack, 154 UVa 10887 - Trembling Destination, 367 UVa 10888 - Brute Forcing, 268 UVa 10889 - Pick-Guess-Sum, 15 UVa 10890 - Children’s games, 26 UVa 10891 - Largest Square, 66 UVa 10892 - Mark’s Distribution, 60 UVa 10893 - Simple Minded Shuffling, 620 UVa 10894 - Randomly Shuffled Handling, 69 UVa 10895 - Walking on a Grid, 112 UVa 10896 - Factorial Pattern, 155 UVa 10897 - A Walk Through the Result, 202 UVa 10898 - PIV, 12 UVa 10899 - Spiral Up, 44 UVa 10900 - The Pigeonhole, 154 UVa 10901 - A Set Function, 134 UVa 10902 - Flying K, 48 UVa 10903 - Counting Characters, 65 UVa 10904 - To Infinity and Beyond, 17 UVa 10905 - Relative prime numbers?, 124 UVa 10906 - A New Segment, 31 UVa 10907 - Spare Blasting, 286 UVa 10908 - A Marching Range, 2, 792 UVa 10909 - Inverse of a Priority Structure, 116 UVa 10910 - Fluency Check Away, 113 UVa 10911 - Graphing Together, 23 UVa 10912 - Number sort specimens, 37 UVa 10913 - Micro Chess, 57 UVa 10914 - Count of Paths, 94 UVa 10915 - The Starry Night, 14 UVa 10916 - Big Chocolate, 123 UVa 10917 - Hasty Move, 60 UVa 10918 - Wizard’s Party Magic, 25 UVa 10919 - Enchanted Forest, 94 UVa 10920 - Let’s Play a Game, 131 UVa 10921 - Sending email, 95 #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 64 Context: 52CHAPTER10.KERNELRIDGEREGRESSION10.1KernelRidgeRegressionWenowreplacealldata-caseswiththeirfeaturevector:xi→Φi=Φ(xi).Inthiscasethenumberofdimensionscanbemuchhigher,oreveninfinitelyhigher,thanthenumberofdata-cases.Thereisaneattrickthatallowsustoperformtheinverseaboveinsmallestspaceofthetwopossibilities,eitherthedimensionofthefeaturespaceorthenumberofdata-cases.Thetrickisgivenbythefollowingidentity,(P−1+BTR−1B)−1BTR−1=PBT(BPBT+R)−1(10.4)NownotethatifBisnotsquare,theinverseisperformedinspacesofdifferentdimensionality.ToapplythistoourcasewedefineΦ=Φaiandy=yi.Thesolutionisthengivenby,w=(λId+ΦΦT)−1Φy=Φ(ΦTΦ+λIn)−1y(10.5)Thisequationcanberewrittenas:w=PiαiΦ(xi)withα=(ΦTΦ+λIn)−1y.Thisisanequationthatwillbearecurrentthemeanditcanbeinterpretedas:Thesolutionwmustlieinthespanofthedata-cases,evenifthedimensionalityofthefeaturespaceismuchlargerthanthenumberofdata-cases.Thisseemsintuitivelyclear,sincethealgorithmislinearinfeaturespace.Wefinallyneedtoshowthatweneveractuallyneedaccesstothefeaturevec-tors,whichcouldbeinfinitelylong(whichwouldberatherimpractical).Whatweneedinpracticeisisthepredictedvalueforanewtestpoint,x.Thisiscomputedbyprojectingitontothesolutionw,y=wTΦ(x)=y(ΦTΦ+λIn)−1ΦTΦ(x)=y(K+λIn)−1κ(x)(10.6)whereK(bxi,bxj)=Φ(xi)TΦ(xj)andκ(x)=K(xi,x).TheimportantmessagehereisofcoursethatweonlyneedaccesstothekernelK.Wecannowaddbiastothewholestorybyaddingonemore,constantfeaturetoΦ:Φ0=1.Thevalueofw0thenrepresentsthebiassince,wTΦ=XawaΦai+w0(10.7)Hence,thestorygoesthroughunchanged. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 7 Context: vsonalperspective.InsteadoftryingtocoverallaspectsoftheentirefieldIhavechosentopresentafewpopularandperhapsusefultoolsandapproaches.Butwhatwill(hopefully)besignificantlydifferentthanmostotherscientificbooksisthemannerinwhichIwillpresentthesemethods.Ihavealwaysbeenfrustratedbythelackofproperexplanationofequations.ManytimesIhavebeenstaringataformulahavingnottheslightestcluewhereitcamefromorhowitwasderived.Manybooksalsoexcelinstatingfactsinanalmostencyclopedicstyle,withoutprovidingtheproperintuitionofthemethod.Thisismyprimarymission:towriteabookwhichconveysintuition.ThefirstchapterwillbedevotedtowhyIthinkthisisimportant.MEANTFORINDUSTRYASWELLASBACKGROUNDREADING]ThisbookwaswrittenduringmysabbaticalattheRadboudtUniversityinNi-jmegen(Netherlands).Hansfordiscussiononintuition.IliketothankProf.BertKappenwholeadsanexcellentgroupofpostocsandstudentsforhishospitality.Marga,kids,UCI,... #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 215 Context: # 8.2 PROBLEM DECOMPOSITION **Steven & Elric** This is clearly a TSP problem (see Section 3.5), but before we can do that, we have to first transform the input into a distance matrix. In this problem, we are interested in **‘a’** and **‘b’**. We give indices to the points (intersections) from **‘a’** to **‘b’**. Then we run BFS on this numbered implicit graph starting from each **‘a’** (by only stepping on cells labeled with **‘1’** and **‘0’**). This gives us the All-Pairs Shortest Path (APSP) distance matrix as shown in Section 3.3. After that, having the APSP distance matrix, we can run DP (see also Section 3.5) to obtain the answer. In the best case scenario, the TSP tour is: **0 -> 1 -> 2 -> 3 -> 4 -> 5 -> 1 + 1 = 2**. ## 8.2.3 Two Components: Involving Graphs Some modern problems involving directed graphs deal with Strongly Connected Components (SCCs). One of the newer variants is the problem that requires all SCCs of the given directed graph to be contracted into fewer vertices (naming super vertices). Note that if the SCCs do not overlap, they can certainly look the same as a simple graph as in Example 1.2. You can read our discussion in Section 4.1. DAG is very suitable for DP techniques. ### Uva 11234 - The Largest Coin In such problems, the problem is short, about finding the biggest pair and its DM of contacted SCCs. Each super vertex we might represent the amount of original vertices that are contracted into that super vertex. ## 8.2.4 Two Components: Involving Mathematics In Section 3.1, the important fact for this problem, the underlying graphs do not need to be stored in any graph specific data structures. This is possible if we can derive the edges and nodes using the same rules. Uva 11710 - Number Transformation tends to be common. While these problems touch on exponential solutions in all mathematics, the main problem is actually a Single-Source Shortest Path (SSSP) problem in exponential graphs, leading to a graph that has a fixed purpose as a network structure, where the vertices represent the algorithm itself. If \( v \) is a prime number, it requires without target vertex \( w \) where \( v \) is prime factor of \( M \) by the execution of its phase of vertices. There is also the minimum number of transformations needed to transform \( M \) according to the problems. ## 8.2.5 Three Components: Prime Factors, DP, Binary Search **V**. 1158 - Fibonacci Relation can be elaborated as follows: "Given \( M \) the number of prime factors in \( N \), if \( x \) is the minimum phase factor of \( X \) (or \( 10^6 \)), this primes can be quite challenging. Hence it should be clear that the sum of the prime factors of \( M \) is \( p_1 + p_2 + ... + p_k = M \) where \( p_i \) is rate of \( M \) and follows that \( b_{p} = \text{number of prime factors of } M - 1 \) and follows pattern \( b = m+1 \) where it provides simple solutions. The second part of the solution should be to enumerate the number of prime factors of \( M \) by finding a path \( \text{Path}(F) = \{1, 2, ..., N\} \). Thus, \( N \) does. ## 8.2.6 Three Components: Complete Search, Binary Search, Greedy In this section, we address a recent top-level problem that combines three problems solving paradigms that are listed in Chapter 3, namely: Complete Search, Divide & Conquer (Binary Search), and Greedy! #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 99 Context: # 4.2 GRAPH TRAVERSAL © Steven & Felix - **Flood Fill / Filling Connected Components** 1. UVA 10920 - 12 Goin' on 30 (6 neighbors per pixel) 2. UVA 10339 - Season Wars (count number of connected components (CC)) 3. UVA 563 - Vertex of a Function (answer of a CC, discussion in this section) 4. UVA 10741 - Diner Dilemma (count number of CCs, similar to UVA 563) 5. UVA 11289 - The Big C (not the same "color" here) 6. UVA 10926 - I Can't Stop (replicating the "Grid" with the smallest area output) 7. UVA 10707 - Medians as a Regular Pattern (solve with inliers, format output) 8. UVA 12442 - Bouncing Ball (find and color the reachable nodes) 9. UVA 10291 - Grant's Coffee (similar to UVA 563) 10. UVA 10929 - A New Perspective (find and exit all reachable nodes) - **Topological Sort** 1. UVA 110 - Life is Good (realizing Orders (and backtracking to generate valid topmost)) 2. UVA 200 - Parentheses (similar to UVA 114, use backtracking) 3. UVA 10646 - Firing Up (topological algorithms discussed in this section) 4. UVA 11086 - Progress (master C - the unseen) 5. UVA 11088 - Pick Up Sticks (using backtracking) 6. Also see DP on simple(sparse) DAG problems (see Section 4.7.1) - **Bipartite Graph / Cluck** 1. UVA 10004 - Bicoloring (graphite graph) 2. UVA 11005 - Beloved Sequences (bipartite graph; take max(left, right)) 3. UVA 11200 - Place the Squares (4 quadratics, ensuring pieces are not outside SCC) 4. UVA 11660 - Class Composition (understanding it just like a logistic graph/branch) - **Finding Articulation Points / Bridges** 1. UVA 10002 - Network (finding articulation points) 2. UVA 10646 - Don’t Think (finding bridges) 3. UVA 11508 - Graphing (similar to UVA 1130) 4. UVA 11838 - Cake (check if the input graph is strongly connected) 5. UVA 10989 - Shift-Substitution (turn, SCC) *“There is either way to solve this problem, i.e., by finding the patterns.”* #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 191 Context: # Chapter 7 ## (Computational) Geometry *Let us man ignorant of geometry enter here.* — Plato's Academy in Athens ### 7.1 Overview and Motivation (Computational) Geometry is yet another topic that frequently appears in programming contests. Almost all ICPC problems test have at least one geometry problem. If you are lucky, it will ask for some geometry solution that you have learned before. Usually, you draw the geometrical object(s) and then derive the solution from some basic geometric formulas. However, many geometry problems are the complications that often require some concrete explanation. In 101, the extension of geometry-specific problems depends on the tasks described by the Scientific Committee in the last three years (2000 and 2001). 101 tends to focus on geometry problems. However, in other years, there exist one or two geometry-related problems per [10] [5]. We have observed that many contestants, especially ICPC contestants, are afraid to tackle geometry-related problems due to two logical reasons: 1. The solutions for geometry-related problems have lower probability of getting Accepted (AC) during contests compared to the solutions for other problem types in the contest, like Constructive Search or Dynamic Programming. This makes many students prefer to skip the problem as more worthful than spending precious minutes solving geometry solutions that has lower probability of acceptance. - There are usually tricky 'special corner cases' in geometry problems. For example, if the line is horizontal (vertical gracefully). What if the points are collinear? What if the polygon is convex? etc. It is usually a good idea to bring your team’s geometry solution and see if cases before you submit it to judges. - There is a possibility of having floating point precision errors that cause even a 'correct' solution to be a Wrong Answer (WA) response. 2. The contestants are not well prepared. - The contestants usually forget some important basic formulas or unable to derive the required formulas from the basic ones. - The facts that due to few well-written library functions and their attempts to code such functions also might restrict useful time and wrap up with bugs. In ICPC, the top teams usually find expertise out of their hard copy material (which can bring an algorithm being replicated with lots of geometry libraries and library functions). #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 251 Context: # INDEX @ Steven & Felix - UVa 0013 - Mutant Flatland Explorers, 82 - UVa 0014 - Greedy Golf Games, 17 - UVa 0018 - S-Disk and Flipflops, 26 - UVa 0022 - Trees on the Inside, 15 - UVa 0023 - Performing Queries, 25 - UVa 0024 - Building Cottages, 53 - UVa 0015 - "Numbering" Paths, 100 - UVa 0016 - Asymmetric Tiling, 26 - UVa 0017 - Return of the King, 16 - UVa 0033 - The Dice Queen, 16 - UVa 0034 - Tiny Jumps, 124 - UVa 0038 - Telephone Tangents, 17 - UVa 0043 - Star Battle, 11 - UVa 0044 - Orchard Trees, 159 - UVa 0045 - Grid Game, 17 - UVa 0046 - The Standard Grid, 118 - UVa 0047 - Idle Code, 23 - UVa 0048 - Deluxe, 61 - UVa 0049 - Analog Clocks, 16 - UVa 0050 - Power Crisis, 16 - UVa 0051 - "Finds a Crowd", 195 - UVa 0052 - Mascot, 60 - UVa 0054 - All Squares, 146 - UVa 0055 - Game of Life, 17 - UVa 0056 - Traffic Lights, 8 - UVa 0061 - The Last Digit, 17 - UVa 0063 - Strange Neighbor, 15 - UVa 0064 - Matrix Chain, 172 - UVa 0065 - Kim's Challenge, 60 - UVa 0067 - The 10th Imitation, 16 - UVa 0071 - Clock Partition, 72 - UVa 0072 - Transiting Through, 17 - UVa 0074 - Pedestrian, 46 - UVa 0075 - The Sport Game, 17 - UVa 0076 - Counting Duck, 18 - UVa 0080 - Bar Code, 124 - UVa 0101 - Circle Through Three Points, 185 - UVa 0104 - The Alice, 46 - UVa 0114 - The 36th Construction, 17 - UVa 0116 - Getting in Line, 69 - UVa 0218 - Mobi Evacuation, 194 - UVa 0220 - Olli, 15 - UVa 0222 - Bagging Trees, 45 - UVa 0223 - Balanced Dial, 10 - UVa 0224 - Testing the Cather, 63 - UVa 0226 - Correct Answers, 15 - UVa 0227 - Puzzle, 45 - UVa 0228 - Calling Cards, 53 - UVa 0229 - Cable Splitting, 45 - UVa 0230 - Name That Number, 54 - UVa 0250 - Quicksum Express, 48 - UVa 0251 - Find the Other, 23 - UVa 0254 - Expert System, 121 - UVa 0270 - Lining Up, 158 - UVa 0271 - Simply Upcast, 154 - UVa 0272 - TEX Questions, 15 - UVa 0275 - Captioning, 154 - UVa 0276 - Pearls, 19 - UVa 0279 - Vortex, 52 - UVa 0290 - The Bison's Control Class, 118 - UVa 0291 - The Sorceress' Speller, 21 - UVa 0292 - Tartan Swaggers, 25 - UVa 0293 - Perfect Matching, 16 - UVa 0295 - Palindrome, 17 - UVa 0296 - Cow Year, 32 - UVa 0297 - Symmetric MC, 16 - UVa 0298 - Calipers, 17 - UVa 0299 - Number Theory, 16 - UVa 0300 - Palindromic Sequences, 17 - UVa 0301 - Base 3, 14 - UVa 0304 - Perfect Numbers, 12 - UVa 0305 - Implementing Sort, 17 - UVa 0343 - Preparing a Party, 155 - UVa 0345 - Processing & Knowledge, 16 - UVa 0349 - Queens, 18 - UVa 0355 - Processing RK-Metric, 17 - UVa 0358 - “Iterating” Lowball, 12 - UVa 0361 - Interval Sums, 15 - UVa 0364 - Getting Churched, 16 - UVa 0367 - Run, Run, Runaround Numbers, 44 - UVa 0385 - Optimal Array Mall, 69 #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 13 Context: Chapter1DataandInformationDataiseverywhereinabundantamounts.Surveillancecamerascontinuouslycapturevideo,everytimeyoumakeaphonecallyournameandlocationgetsrecorded,oftenyourclickingpatternisrecordedwhensurfingtheweb,mostfi-nancialtransactionsarerecorded,satellitesandobservatoriesgeneratetera-bytesofdataeveryyear,theFBImaintainsaDNA-databaseofmostconvictedcrimi-nals,soonallwrittentextfromourlibrariesisdigitized,needIgoon?Butdatainitselfisuseless.Hiddeninsidethedataisvaluableinformation.Theobjectiveofmachinelearningistopulltherelevantinformationfromthedataandmakeitavailabletotheuser.Whatdowemeanby“relevantinformation”?Whenanalyzingdatawetypicallyhaveaspecificquestioninmindsuchas:“Howmanytypesofcarcanbediscernedinthisvideo”or“whatwillbeweathernextweek”.Sotheanswercantaketheformofasinglenumber(thereare5cars),orasequenceofnumbersor(thetemperaturenextweek)oracomplicatedpattern(thecloudconfigurationnextweek).Iftheanswertoourqueryisitselfcomplexweliketovisualizeitusinggraphs,bar-plotsorevenlittlemovies.Butoneshouldkeepinmindthattheparticularanalysisdependsonthetaskonehasinmind.Letmespelloutafewtasksthataretypicallyconsideredinmachinelearning:Prediction:Hereweaskourselveswhetherwecanextrapolatetheinformationinthedatatonewunseencases.Forinstance,ifIhaveadata-baseofattributesofHummerssuchasweight,color,numberofpeopleitcanholdetc.andanotherdata-baseofattributesofFerraries,thenonecantrytopredictthetypeofcar(HummerorFerrari)fromanewsetofattributes.Anotherexampleispredictingtheweather(givenalltherecordedweatherpatternsinthepast,canwepredicttheweathernextweek),orthestockprizes.1 #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 35 Context: 5.1.THEIDEAINANUTSHELL23because98noisydimensionshavebeenadded.ThiseffectisdetrimentaltothekNNalgorithm.Onceagain,itisveryimportanttochooseyourinitialrepresen-tationwithmuchcareandpreprocessthedatabeforeyouapplythealgorithm.Inthiscase,preprocessingtakestheformof“featureselection”onwhichawholebookinitselfcouldbewritten.5.1TheIdeaInaNutshellToclassifyanewdata-itemyoufirstlookfortheknearestneighborsinfeaturespaceandassignitthesamelabelasthemajorityoftheseneighbors. #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 18 Context: ```markdown # 1.2 Tips to Be Competitive Figure 1.1: Illustration of UVa 10911 - Forming Quiz Teams Now, ask yourself, which one of the following best describes you? Note that if you are unfamiliar with the material or terminologies shown in this chapter, you can read it after going through this book. ## Step 1: Identify the problem (A.K.A. the fuzzy one): 1. **Step 1:** Read the problem and understand its constraints. 2. **Step 2:** Identify the key aspects that differentiate this problem from others. ## Step 2: Identify the programming paradigms: - This problem can be related to what is called a *"matching on general graph"* problem. - Be sure to review how to solve this kind of problem using *Dynamic Programming (DP)*. ## Review the approaches: - If the problem is small, try solving it using *Brute Force* [8]. - If the problem is larger than you've solved before, try to identify a solution using *Greedy* techniques [9]. ## Solutions: 1. Write a program to enumerate all possible solutions to solve the problem. 2. Simulate the programmer's decisions, and all stages above in less than 30 minutes. ## Example: - A very competitive programmer (e.g., the red ‘target’ coders in TopCoder [19]) should solve this kind of problem in less than 15 minutes. ``` #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 83 Context: # 3.5. DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING _Steven & Felix_ Solution. First, appear two more coordinates so that arr = (0, the original arr), and L. Then, there are two possible segments cut(left, right) where left/right indices of the current stuck with arr[positive]. Originally, this is described by left = 0 and right = n-1 (i.e., stick with length L). 1. ```markdown cut(0, 1) = 0, ∀ i ∈ [0, N) | if left + 1 > right then left and right are the same index in the array, so we are left with stick segment that do not need to be cut anymore. ``` cut(left, right) = max(cut(left, t) + cut(t + 1, right) - arr[left]) This recursive method lists all possible cutting points and gets the minimum one. The result of the splitting point that is captured by cut(arr[right] - arr[left]). This problem has overlapping sub-problems, but there can only X possible height indices on O(n²) distinct sticks. The table to compute our state is O(n). Thus, the overall time complexity is O(N²), N ≤ 500, this is feasible. The answer is in cut(0, n). ``` Example codes: [cls,UVA10003.cpp](https://example.com/UVA10003.cpp), [UVA10003.java](https://example.com/UVA10003.java) ``` 2. How do you add? (UVA 10943) **Problem statement**: Given a number N, how many ways can K numbers less than or equal to N add up to N? Constraints: 1 ≤ N ≤ 100, 1 ≤ K ≤ 100. For example, N = 20, K = 5: 1 + 2 + 3 + 14, 1 + 2 + 4 + 13, 1 + 3 + 16, etc. Mathematically, the number of ways to add is defined as \( f(N,K) = f(N-1,K) + f(N-K,K-1) \). Therefore, defining the parameters of this problem has to be selected to represent distinct states of this problem. There are only two parameters in this problem, N and K. 1. If we choose N, then we cannot present distinct states. This option is ignored. 2. If we choose K, then we know how many numbers K are. 3. We discover that we cannot know what the target sum is. Thus, we can begin by defining the parameters of this problem as input (N,K). Next, we have to determine the base case of this problem. It turns out that this problem is very simple: - If N = 0, then K is also equal to 0, so base case is 1. - If N < 0, there is no possible way to do this. - If K = 0, there is no way to select. The general case is that we can use this recursive formula which is to find no defined. At state \( f(N, K) \), we can split N into some sums: \( 0 \) and \( X \), K = \( N - (N - X) \). Now, we have the same problem, therefore we can add this sum of possible ways. To compute the options on this problem, the overall time complexity is O(NK). **Example codes**: [UVA10943.cpp](https://example.com/UVA10943.cpp), [UVA10943.java](https://example.com/UVA10943.java) *"Try the smallest test case N = K = 1 with corresponding application. State (N = 0, K = 1) is reached twice."* The answer is in the end. **Next steps**: Please read section 5.7 that discusses complete arithmetic computation. #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 182 Context: ``` 6.6 SUFFIX TREE/TREE/ARRAY Figure 6.6: Generalized Suffix Tree of T₁ = "GATACACA" and T₂ = "CATA" and their LCS 6.6.4 Suffix Array In the previous subsection, we have shown several string processing problems that can be solved if the Suffix Tree is already built. However, the efficient implementation of these Suffix Tree constructions is complex and often risky under programming constraints. Fortunately, another data structure that is simple to describe is the Suffix Array. This structure was first coined by Gene Myers—its similar functionalities to Suffix Tree (much simpler in construct and use) sometimes lead to it being mistaken for the Suffix Tree. Suffix Arrays are constructed from the original string S by sorting all of its suffixes. Suffix Array SA is an array that stores a permutation of indices of S for S = "GATACACA". For example, for string T = "GATACACA", SA = [7, 3, 4, 5, 0, 1, 6, 2], as shown in Figure 6.7. That is, the suffixes of string S at indices 0–7 are: - suffix[0] = "GATACACA" - suffix[1] = "ATACACA" - suffix[2] = "TACACA" - suffix[3] = "ACACA" - suffix[4] = "CACA" - suffix[5] = "ACA" - suffix[6] = "CA" - suffix[7] = "A" Suffix Tree construction is also closely related. As we can see in Figure 6.7, the predecessor of Suffix Array is a structure in Suffix Tree. Additionally, we can retrieve the individual nodes in Suffix Tree as a prefix, which keeps the semantics of suffixes intact while decreasing the complexity similarly. Figure 6.7: Suffix Tree and Suffix Array of T = "GATACACA" ``` #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 82 Context: 70CHAPTER14.KERNELCANONICALCORRELATIONANALYSISWewanttomaximizethisobjective,becausethiswouldmaximizethecorrelationbetweentheunivariatesuandv.Notethatwedividedbythestandarddeviationoftheprojectionstoremovescaledependence.ThisexpositionisverysimilartotheFisherdiscriminantanalysisstoryandIencourageyoutorereadthat.Forinstance,thereyoucanfindhowtogeneralizetocaseswherethedataisnotcentered.Wealsointroducedthefollowing“trick”.Sincewecanrescaleaandbwithoutchangingtheproblem,wecanconstrainthemtobeequalto1.Thisthenallowsustowritetheproblemas,maximizea,bρ=E[uv]subjecttoE[u2]=1E[v2]=1(14.2)Or,ifweconstructaLagrangianandwriteouttheexpectationswefind,mina,bmaxλ1,λ2XiaTxiyTib−12λ1(XiaTxixTia−N)−12λ2(XibTyiyTib−N)(14.3)wherewehavemultipliedbyN.Let’stakederivativeswrttoaandbtoseewhattheKKTequationstellus,XixiyTib−λ1XixixTia=0(14.4)XiyixTia−λ2XiyiyTib=0(14.5)FirstnoticethatifwemultiplythefirstequationwithaTandthesecondwithbTandsubtractthetwo,whileusingtheconstraints,wearriveatλ1=λ2=λ.Next,renameSxy=PixiyTi,Sx=PixixTiandSy=PiyiyTi.Wedefinethefollowinglargermatrices:SDistheblockdiagonalmatrixwithSxandSyonthediagonalandzerosontheoff-diagonalblocks.Also,wedefineSOtobetheoff-diagonalmatrixwithSxyontheoffdiagonal.Finallywedefinec=[a,b].Thetwoequationscanthenwewrittenjointlyas,SOc=λSDc⇒S−1DSOc=λc⇒S12OS−1DS12O(S12Oc)=λ(S12Oc)(14.6)whichisagainanregulareigenvalueequationforc′=S12Oc #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 19 Context: # 1.2 TIPS TO BE COMPETITIVE ### Steven & Felix However, you will not just learn the data structures and algorithms, but also how to implement them efficiently and apply them to appropriate contest problems. On top of that, you will also learn many programming tips that can be helpful in contest situations. We start this book by giving you several great simple tips: ## Tip 1: Type Code Faster! No kidding! Although this tip may not mean much to ICPC and (especially) IOI are not typing contests, we have seen some ICPC teams rank a rank 1 and just parachuted by two facilities. When you can solve the number of problems as your competitor, it is now down to coding skill (ability to produce correct code) and… typing speed. Try this typing test at [http://www.typingtest.com](http://www.typingtest.com) and follow the instructions there on how to improve your typing speed. Your goal should be 85-95 words per minute (WPM). You can also practice by typing questions and answers from frequent top programming languages. ### Forming Quiz Teams: The solution for UVA 10911 above ```c #include // note: if you have problems understanding this C++ code #include // please consult your basic programming text (not the digits) // for the explanation of this C function // (C can be found in Chapter 2 & later) int bitmask; // using global variables is not so good in competitive programming double dist[20][20], ans; // << 1 << is 2^16, recall that bitmask = b int num; // the size of the array with -1 in the main function int memo(int bmask) { // this bit has been mapped before if (bmask == (bmask & (-bmask))) // if the mask is just 1 return 0; // all are already matched if (dist[bmask[0]][bmask[1]] == -1) // initialize with a large value return 1; // this bit is off double ans = 1000000000; // initialize with a large value for (int i = 0; i < 2; i++) { if (bitmask & (1 << i)) { // this bit is off for (int p = 1; p < (1 << num); p++) { // this is different than the original if (p < n) { break; // important step, will be discussed in Chapter 3 & later } } } } return memo(bitmask) + ans; // store result in a memo table and return } int main() { char line[1000]; int line_count = 0, x[20], y[20]; // to simplify testing, redirect input file to stdin freopen("10911.txt", "r", stdin); } ``` ### Note - This code snippet serves as a reference for understanding C-based competitive programming. - Ensure to familiarize yourself with changes and implementations as discussed in this section. #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 8 Context: # CONTENTS ## Steven & Follis ## Changes for the Second Edition There are substantial changes between the first and the second editions of this book. As the authors, we have learned a number of new things and solved hundreds of programming problems through our experiences that have shaped this edition. We have received several feedback from readers, especially from Steven’s CS325 Class Spring 2 A/Y2011 students, that we have incorporated in the second edition. Here is a summary of the important changes for the second edition: 1. The first noticeable change is the layout. We now have more information directly per page. The 1st edition seems like sparing instead of one half for spacing in the last edition. The positioning of small figures is also adjusted so that we minimize their space. This is to avoid miscounting the number of pages to which we relate our content. 2. Some minor bug fix example codes (both the ones shown in the book and the test copies) have been corrected to make them easily readable. All code examples now have much more meaningful comments to help readers understand the code. 3. Several known language issues (typos, grammatical, stylistic) have been corrected. 4. On top of enhancing the writing of existing data structures, algorithms, and programming problems, we also add new material in each chapter. 5. A new model of Red-Black trees to kickstart this book (Section 1.3). 6. Magnitude and Detail on manipulation techniques (Section 2.1), Implicit Graph (Section 2.3.1), and Framework for the data structures (Section 2.4). 7. More DP: Closer explanation of the bottom-up DP, on k-subsets for LFS problem, and more on 0-1 knapsack/subset Sum DP (Section 3.7), Dynamic Programming Graphs, Matrix Spanning Trees, Robust Paths (Single-Source All-Pairs, Maximum Flow, and Special DAGs (Section 4.1.1), Linear Graph (Section 4.2), Alternating Bipartite Matching algorithms (Section 5.3). 8. Recognizing, demonstrating methods (Chapter 5) and Hex, Java Bingo Paperclip, Constructing (A*, Depth Limited Search, Iterative Deepening D*), more advanced DP, note: advanced techniques, Chinese Restatement Problem, optimization of common DP states, discussion on better DP states, and some other harder DP problems. #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 184 Context: # 6.6 SUFFIX TREE/TREE/ARRAY **@ Steven E. Feliks** - At iteration \( k = 2 \), the ranking pair of suffix \( SA[6] \) is \( (SA[6,1]) , SA[5,4,2] \). This ranking pair is now obtained by looking at the first part and the second part of characters only. To get the new rankings pairs, we do not have to compare the whole strings; we just compare the first \( k \) characters. ### Example 1 The ranking pair of suffix \( S[6] \) is different from the ranking pair of the previous suffix \( S[5] \ — ‘AAB’ is not the same rank as ‘ACA’. In this example, the ranking pair of previous suffixes \( T[1] \) is \( (9, 0) \), which is \( 1 \). This is different from the ranking pair of the previous suffix \( T[2] \) which is \( (5, 19) \). ### Note Now, after sorting, consider \( A \) as \( 1 \), and suffixes \( S[4] \) is \( (3, 6) \) and suffix \( S[6] \) as \( (3, 6) \) will be referred to next. After another round of sorting, the order of suffixes now will be in accordance with Table 6.2. Table 6.2: **Left/Right: Before/After Sorting; k = 2: ‘GATACAA’ and ‘GACA’ are Stripped** At iteration \( k = 4 \), the ranking pair of suffix \( SA[6] \) is \( (SA[6,1]), SA[5,4,3] \). This ranking part is obtained by looking at the first part of characters only. Now, note that the previous rankings pairs for Suffix \( SA[6] \) are given as follows: | Index | Suffixes | Ranking | |-------|-----------|---------| | 1 | AACA | (4, 5) | | 2 | ACA | (2, 12) | | 3 | GACA | (3, 6) | | 4 | GATACAA | (1, 19) | | 5 | AAB | (10, 20)| | 6 | AACA | (5, 19) | **Table 6.3: Before and After sorting; k = 2: No Change** We can implement the sorting of ranking pairs again using built-in \( O(n \log n) \) sorting library. As we repeat the sorting process in two runs, time will remain as \( O(n \log n) \) for identifying the distinct values. Now, we can work with strings of length up to \( 10^k \) typical programming constant range. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 38 Context: 26CHAPTER6.THENAIVEBAYESIANCLASSIFIERexampleofthetrafficthatitgenerates:theuniversityofCaliforniaIrvinereceivesontheorderof2millionspamemailsaday.Fortunately,thebulkoftheseemails(approximately97%)isfilteredoutordumpedintoyourspam-boxandwillreachyourattention.Howisthisdone?Well,itturnsouttobeaclassicexampleofaclassificationproblem:spamorham,that’sthequestion.Let’ssaythatspamwillreceivealabel1andhamalabel0.Ourtaskisthustolabeleachnewemailwitheither0or1.Whataretheattributes?Rephrasingthisquestion,whatwouldyoumeasureinanemailtoseeifitisspam?Certainly,ifIwouldread“viagra”inthesubjectIwouldstoprightthereanddumpitinthespam-box.Whatelse?Hereareafew:“enlargement,cheap,buy,pharmacy,money,loan,mortgage,credit”andsoon.Wecanbuildadictionaryofwordsthatwecandetectineachemail.Thisdictionarycouldalsoincludewordphrasessuchas“buynow”,“penisenlargement”,onecanmakephrasesassophisticatedasnecessary.Onecouldmeasurewhetherthewordsorphrasesappearatleastonceoronecouldcounttheactualnumberoftimestheyappear.Spammersknowaboutthewaythesespamfiltersworkandcounteractbyslightmisspellingsofcertainkeywords.Hencewemightalsowanttodetectwordslike“viagra”andsoon.Infact,asmallarmsracehasensuedwherespamfiltersandspamgeneratorsfindnewtrickstocounteractthetricksofthe“opponent”.Puttingallthesesubtletiesasideforamomentwe’llsimplyassumethatwemeasureanumberoftheseattributesforeveryemailinadataset.We’llalsoassumethatwehavespam/hamlabelsfortheseemails,whichwereacquiredbysomeoneremovingspamemailsbyhandfromhis/herinbox.Ourtaskisthentotrainapredictorforspam/hamlabelsforfutureemailswherewehaveaccesstoattributesbutnottolabels.TheNBmodeliswhatwecalla“generative”model.Thismeansthatweimaginehowthedatawasgeneratedinanabstractsense.Foremails,thisworksasfollows,animaginaryentityfirstdecideshowmanyspamandhamemailsitwillgenerateonadailybasis.Say,itdecidestogenerate40%spamand60%ham.Wewillassumethisdoesn’tchangewithtime(ofcourseitdoes,butwewillmakethissimplifyingassumptionfornow).Itwillthendecidewhatthechanceisthatacertainwordapp #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 24 Context: 12CHAPTER3.LEARNINGderstoodthatthiswasalion.Theyunderstoodthatalllionshavetheseparticularcharacteristicsincommon,butmaydifferinsomeotherones(likethepresenceofascarsomeplace).Bobhasanotherdiseasewhichiscalledover-generalization.Oncehehasseenanobjecthebelievesalmosteverythingissome,perhapstwistedinstanceofthesameobjectclass(Infact,IseemtosufferfromthissonowandthenwhenIthinkallofmachinelearningcanbeexplainedbythisonenewexcitingprinciple).IfancestralBobwalksthesavannaandhehasjustencounteredaninstanceofalionandfledintoatreewithhisbuddies,thenexttimeheseesasquirrelhebelievesitisasmallinstanceofadangerouslionandfleesintothetreesagain.Over-generalizationseemstoberathercommonamongsmallchildren.Oneofthemainconclusionsfromthisdiscussionisthatweshouldneitherover-generalizenorover-fit.Weneedtobeontheedgeofbeingjustright.Butjustrightaboutwhat?Itdoesn’tseemthereisonecorrectGod-givendefinitionofthecategorychairs.Weseemtoallagree,butonecansurelyfindexamplesthatwouldbedifficulttoclassify.Whendowegeneralizeexactlyright?ThemagicwordisPREDICTION.Fromanevolutionarystandpoint,allwehavetodoismakecorrectpredictionsaboutaspectsoflifethathelpussurvive.Nobodyreallycaresaboutthedefinitionoflion,butwedocareabouttheourresponsestothevariousanimals(runawayforlion,chasefordeer).Andtherearealotofthingsthatcanbepredictedintheworld.Thisfoodkillsmebutthatfoodisgoodforme.Drummingmyfistsonmyhairychestinfrontofafemalegeneratesopportunitiesforsex,stickingmyhandintothatyellow-orangeflickering“flame”hurtsmyhandandsoon.Theworldiswonderfullypredictableandweareverygoodatpredictingit.Sowhydowecareaboutobjectcategoriesinthefirstplace?Well,apparentlytheyhelpusorganizetheworldandmakeaccuratepredictions.Thecategorylionsisanabstractionandabstractionshelpustogeneralize.Inacertainsense,learningisallaboutfindingusefulabstractionsorconceptsthatdescribetheworld.Taketheconcept“fluid”,itdescribesallwaterysubstancesandsummarizessomeoftheirphysicalproperties.Otheconceptof“weight”:anabstractionthatdescribesacertainproperty #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 103 Context: # 4.3 MINIMUM SPANNING TREE © Steven & Felix ## Minimum Spanning 'Forest' In this section, we want the spanning criteria; i.e., all vertices must be covered by some edges, but we can stop even though the spanning tree has not been formed yet. This can happen when we have a spanning 'forest'. That is, the desired number of components is greater than 1. In Figure 4.12a, we see that the MST for this graph is 10–13! = 10. But if we begin with a spanning forest with 2 components, then the solution is just 10+13 – 23 as in Figure 4.12b. Thus, we can extend a spanning forest. The way of extending the spanning forest is simple. Ronald’s algorithm is per natural, but as soon as the number of spanning components equals to the desired predetermined number, we can terminate! ## Second Best Spanning Tree Sometimes, we are interested to have alternatives; this is not the context of finding the MST; we may want to find just the second best spanning tree, i.e., the MST must remain intact. Figure 4.13a shows the MST (left) and the second best ST (right). We can take into account the edge deletion. If \(e \in E(O)\) or \(e \in E(G)\\), then find the MST using Kruskal's Algorithm and remove that edge. If there are not MST \(i\) edges in the MST, then find the second best using Prim's algorithm. We find that the original MST + edges = \(ST\) – \(e\) for the second best edges + find original MST + \(e\) = \(E(G) \setminus E(V)\). ![Figure 4.13a: Second Best ST (from UVA 10600 [28])](#) ![Figure 4.14: Finding the Second Best Spanning Tree from the MST](#) ### Exercise 4.3.4.1 Solve the following: (Max ST, Partial MST, MST 'Forest', and Second Best ST) using Prim's algorithm instead. Which variant(s) are not Prim-friendly? > "A closed edge is defined as an edge in graph G that is not selected in the MST of G." #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 26 Context: 14CHAPTER3.LEARNINGconnectionbetweenlearningandcompression.Nowlet’sthinkforamomentwhatwereallymeanwith“amodel”.Amodelrepresentsourpriorknowledgeoftheworld.Itimposesstructurethatisnotnec-essarilypresentinthedata.Wecallthisthe“inductivebias”.Ourinductivebiasoftencomesintheformofaparametrizedmodel.Thatistosay,wedefineafamilyofmodelsbutletthedatadeterminewhichofthesemodelsismostappro-priate.Astronginductivebiasmeansthatwedon’tleaveflexibilityinthemodelforthedatatoworkon.Wearesoconvincedofourselvesthatwebasicallyignorethedata.Thedownsideisthatifwearecreatinga“badbias”towardstowrongmodel.Ontheotherhand,ifwearecorrect,wecanlearntheremainingdegreesoffreedominourmodelfromveryfewdata-cases.Conversely,wemayleavethedooropenforahugefamilyofpossiblemodels.Ifwenowletthedatazoominonthemodelthatbestexplainsthetrainingdataitwilloverfittothepeculiaritiesofthatdata.Nowimagineyousampled10datasetsofthesamesizeNandtraintheseveryflexiblemodelsseparatelyoneachofthesedatasets(notethatinrealityyouonlyhaveaccesstoonesuchdatasetbutpleaseplayalonginthisthoughtexperiment).Let’ssaywewanttodeterminethevalueofsomeparameterθ.Be-causethemodelsaresoflexible,wecanactuallymodeltheidiosyncrasiesofeachdataset.Theresultisthatthevalueforθislikelytobeverydifferentforeachdataset.Butbecausewedidn’timposemuchinductivebiastheaverageofmanyofsuchestimateswillbeaboutright.Wesaythatthebiasissmall,butthevari-anceishigh.Inthecaseofveryrestrictivemodelstheoppositehappens:thebiasispotentiallylargebutthevariancesmall.Notethatnotonlyisalargebiasisbad(forobviousreasons),alargevarianceisbadaswell:becauseweonlyhaveonedatasetofsizeN,ourestimatecouldbeveryfaroffsimplywewereunluckywiththedatasetweweregiven.Whatweshouldthereforestriveforistoinjectallourpriorknowledgeintothelearningproblem(thismakeslearningeasier)butavoidinjectingthewrongpriorknowledge.Ifwedon’ttrustourpriorknowledgeweshouldletthedataspeak.However,lettingthedataspeaktoomuchmightleadtooverfitting,soweneedtofindtheboundarybetweentoocomplexandtoosimpleamodelandget #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 22 Context: # 1.2 TIPS TO BE COMPETITIVE **Steven & Felix** Now hear about this scenario: You can only devise an algorithm of order \( O(n^3) \). Seems pretty bad right? If \( n = 10 \), then you are done. Don’t directly implement your \( O(n^3) \) algorithm since it’s just \( 1000 \) and your algorithm will only take a relatively small constant time. Instead, consider the complexity of your algorithm with the given input size and stated time/memory limit; you can refine whether you should try coding your algorithm (which will take plenty, especially in the time-constrained IPCs and IDCs) or attempt to solve the problem in less time in the mind’s eye. In this book, we will not discuss the choice of algorithm analysis in detail. We ensure that you understand the basics. Please check other reference books for the questions listed further in "Algorithm Design" [1], "Algorithms Unlocked" [2], etc., and make sure that you understand how to: - Prove the correctness of an algorithm (especially for Greedy algorithms in Section 3.4). - Analyze time/space complexity for iterative and recursive algorithms. - Perform amortized analysis (see §8, Chapter 17 – although rarely used in contests). The output-sensitive analysis aims to analyze algorithms which depend on output size. Example: The \( O(n \log n) \) complexity for finding a pattern string with length \( m \) where length \( n \) is the length of the input string. See Section 6.6.3. See here that \( n \) and \( m \) are not fixed! Many novice programmers would skip this phase and attempt to directly code the first algorithm that either comes in mind (usually for the worst case) only to realize that the first approach is indeed not efficient for any input (even bad ones) or wrong. Our order of the I/O constraints is not as drastic as the time limits for algorithms. Referring to Table 1.4, note that the first two rows point out that our algorithms can’t be constant time. The reason is similar to what we argued in Table 1.6. Variants of Table 1.4 can also be helpful in many algorithms books. However, we put another one here from a programming point of view. Essentially, the simplest approach would barely give you \( O(n) \) for a list by using \( n \) typical items that input your case \( \text{index}\_C \). Using a fixed computational time, input your input size and your time limit (in seconds) as the understanding of \( \text{hint}\_C \). The simplest algorithm might seem for your time complexity, but remember that the main CPU can handle \( 101 \) items in just time. | Worst Case Algorithm | Comment | |----------------------|-----------------------------------------| | \( O(1) \) | e.g. Determining a permutation (Section 3.2) | | \( O(n) \) | e.g. DP for Knapsack (Section 3.5.2) | | \( O(n \log n) \) | e.g. DP with a 1D/2D dynamic (Section 4.1) | | \( O(n^2) \) | e.g. Floyd Warshall’s (Section 4.5) | | \( O(n^3) \) | e.g. Bubble, Shellsort, Insertion Sort (Section 2.2.1) | | \( 10^6 \) | e.g. Merge sort, building Segment Tree (Section 2.2) | | \( O(n^2) \) | e.g. Standard problem has time limit \( n \) (see reduced input). | Table 1.4: Ratio of the Worst Case Algorithms. *We also verify input size in single test case that usually allows your main CPU can handle \( 10^1 \) items in just time limit of \( 3 \).* Examine Table 1.4, and see the importance of knowing good bounds when designing algorithms that truly aim to solve the problems with largest input size. There is a factor that shows us how our algorithm will give out. In Section 3.2.2 later, we will see a few tricks that improve our algorithm’s capabilities as we do reference algorithms for various computing problems. #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 181 Context: # 6.6 SUFFIX TREE/TREE/ARRAY © Steven & Felix ## Longest Repeated Substring in \(O(n)\) Given the Suffix Tree \(T\), we can find the Longest Repeated Substring (LRS) in \(O(n)\) time. The path label of the deepest internal vertex \(v\) in the Suffix Tree \(T\) is the answer. Vertices can be found with an \(O\) traversal. The fact that \(v\) is an internal vertex implies that it represents more than one suffix of \(T\) (where \(T\) is a string). Intuitively, we know that suffixes that are represented by those suffixes share a common prefix (which implies a repeated substring). The fact that \(v\) is the deepest internal vertex means that the path label of \(v\) is \(G\). For example, in the Suffix Tree of \(‘GATACAG’\) shown in Figure 6.5, the LRS is \(‘GA’\) as it is the path label of the deepest internal vertex \(v\). The LRS is reported with \(‘GATACAG’\). ![Figure 6.5: Longest Repeated Substring of \(T = ‘GATACAG’\)](image-url) ### Exercise 6.6.2 Find the LRS in \( T = ‘CACATACAT’ \). Build the Suffix Tree first. ## Longest Common Substring in \(O(n)\) The problem of finding the Longest Common Substring (not 'Subsequence') of \(x\) or \(y\) or two or more strings can be solved in linear time with Suffix Trees. Without loss of generality, let’s consider two strings \(x\) and \(y\) of lengths \(m\) and \(n\). We can build a generalized Suffix Tree that combines the Suffix Trees of \(x\) and \(y\). To demonstrate, the source and sinks of the Suffix Tree should be labeled to show which suffix belongs to which string. The suffixes will be represented by their internal vertices. The internal vertices share a common prefix between \(x\) and \(y\) that leads to the longest common substring. For remote examples, consider the strings \(‘ATA’\) from \(x\) and \(‘AAT’\) from \(y\). ### Exercise 6.6.3 Find the Longest Common Substring of \(‘STEVEN’\) and \(‘SEVEN’\). ### Exercise 6.6.4 Discuss the solution further based on the LCS of two strings, where \(x\) is \(‘GA’\). Using \(T_1\) and \(T_2\) from above, find the LCS of \(x\) out of \(y\) strings. > *Note: The LCS Algorithm requires an additional string, which is discussed in this section. Only refer to the latter section for LCS.* 165 #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 250 Context: # INDEX ## Steven & Felts - Peirce's Theorem, 194 - Pick, George Alexander, 194 - Pilots, 176 - Polygon, 188 - Convex Hull, 191 - Incircle, 190 - Polygon, 189 - Polynomial, 191 - Powers of a Square Matrix, 147 - Partitions, 141, 149 - Prime: Algebraic, 85 - Prime Factor Cy, 59 - Prime Factors - Number of Distinct, 138 - Sum of, 135 - Prime Numbers, 133 - Functions Involving Prime Factors, 138 - Primality Testing, 135 - Prime Factor, 135 - Problem Solving, 133 - Probability Theory, 132 - Pythagorean Theorem, 187 - Pythagorean Triples, 184 - Quadrilaterals, 185 - Queen, 53 - Range Minimum Query, 32 - Recursive, 122 - Riemann Sphere, 198 - Single-Source Shortest Paths, 90 - Dijkstra's Algorithm, 93 - Negative Weight Cycle, 93 - Sliding Window, 49 - Smith, P. F., 159 - Special Graphs, 107 - Spheres, 163 - SP01, 140 - Fisher Array, 173 - Stack, 82 - String Alignment, 160 - String Matching, 156 ## String Processing - String Searching, see String Matching - Strongly Connected Components, 199 - Suffix, 163 - Suffix Array, 166 ### Applications - O(n log n) Construction, 168 - O(n) Construction, 167 - Longest Common Prefix, 171 - Longest Common Substring, 173 - Longest Repeated Substring, 165 ## Suffix Tree - Applications - Longest Path Substring, 165 - Longest Repeated Substring, 167 - String Matching, 164 ## Tail, Recent Tables, 78, 80 - Tarry School, 89 - TopCoder, 52 - Topology, 237 ### Tree - 112 - AFPS - Additional Paths and Edges, 112 - Diameter of, 112 - SSSP, 112 - Tree Traversal, 112 ## Triangle - 135 ### Union-Find Disjoint Set, 30 - USACO, 120 - UVA 100: The 3 - 1 Problem, 123 - UVA 101: The Block Problem, 17 - UVA 102: A Standing Problem, 44 - UVA 103: A Simplest Problem, 16 - UVA 104: The "I" Problem, 41 - UVA 105: A Simple Task, 135 - UVA 106: The Sum in the Flat, 124 - UVA 107: The Plane, 65 - UVA 108: Number Ground, 25 - UVA 109: The Shortest Guarding, 61 - UVA 110: Member on Topography, 124 - UVA 111: A Parsons University, 17 - UVA 114: Unclassified TSP, 69 - UVA 115: The Postal Worker Range One, 118 #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 71 Context: # 3.5 Dynamic Programming Dynamic Programming (from now on abbreviated as DP) is perhaps the most challenging problem solving paradigm among the major paradigms discussed in this chapter. Therefore, make sure that you have mastered the material introduced in the previous chapters/exercises before continuing. If you get seriously stuck with DP techniques, you can start by assuming that DP is a kind of "intelligent" recursion. In some types of problems, DP primarily used to utilize optimization problem and controlling "how many times." For instance, there is a phrase that says "minimize" or "maximize" for what you bus tackle; thus, there is a chance that it is a DP problem. We will refine our understanding of Dynamic Programming throughout this section. ## 3.5.1 DP Illustration We illustrate the concept of Dynamic Programming by using an example problem: TIA 11450 - Knapsack Problem. The abstract problem statement: Given different models for each garment (e.g., 3 short models, 2 long models, 4 side models, ...) and a certain limited budget, how can we model our problem to obtain speed more wisely than the naive method, but want to specify the maximum possible. The input consists of two integers \( S \) (200) and \( C \) (50), where \( S \) is the budget and \( C \) is the number of garments that have to buy. Then, information is given about the garments. For a garment \( g \) (0...1), we know an integer \( I \) (5 < \( I \) < 20) that indicates the number of different models each garment is followed by \( K \) integers indicating the price of each model \( (P_1, P_2, ..., P_K) \). The output is an integer that indicates the maximum amount of money to buy one garment each garment without exceeding the budget. If there is no solution due to the small amount of budget given, we just print "no solution". For example, if the input is like this (test case A): ``` M = 2 Price of the 2 models of garment 0 = 6 4 Price of the 1 models of garment 1 = 5 Price of the 1 models of garment 2 = 2 3 ``` Then the answer is 9, which comes from buying the bundled items (6+3). Note that the solution is not unique, as solution (6+3) and (4+5) are also optimal. However, if the input is like this (test case B): ``` M = 3 Price of the 2 models of garment 0 = 6 4 Price of the 1 models of garment 1 = 5 Price of the 4 models of garment 2 = 2 1 5 3 ``` Exercise 3.5.1 - To verify your understanding, what is the output for this test case C below? ``` Test case C: M = 2 Price of the 3 models of garment 0 = 6 4 8 Price of the 1 models of garment 1 = 1 6 Price of the 2 models of garment 2 = 2 3 7 5 ``` In order for us to appreciate the usefulness of Dynamic Programming for solving the above-mentioned problem, let us first expose how the other paradigms fare in this particular problem. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 42 Context: 30CHAPTER6.THENAIVEBAYESIANCLASSIFIER6.4RegularizationThespamfilteralgorithmthatwediscussedintheprevioussectionsdoesunfortu-natelynotworkverywellifwewishtousemanyattributes(words,word-phrases).Thereasonisthatformanyattributeswemaynotencounterasingleexampleinthedataset.Sayforexamplethatwedefinedtheword“Nigeria”asanattribute,butthatourdatasetdidnotincludeoneofthosespamemailswhereyouarepromisedmountainsofgoldifyouinvestyourmoneyinsomeonebankinNigeria.AlsoassumethereareindeedafewhamemailswhichtalkaboutthenicepeopleinNigeria.ThenanyfutureemailthatmentionsNigeriaisclassifiedashamwith100%certainty.Moreimportantly,onecannotrecoverfromthisdecisioneveniftheemailalsomentionsviagra,enlargement,mortgageandsoon,allinasingleemail!ThiscanbeseenbythefactthatlogPspam(X“Nigeria”>0)=−∞whilethefinalscoreisasumoftheseindividualword-scores.Tocounteractthisphenomenon,wegiveeachwordinthedictionaryasmallprobabilityofbeingpresentinanyemail(spamorham),beforeseeingthedata.Thisprocessiscalledsmoothing.Theimpactontheestimatedprobabilitiesaregivenbelow,Pspam(Xi=j)=α+PnI[Xin=j∧Yn=1]Viα+PnI[Yn=1](6.12)Pham(Xi=j)=α+PnI[Xin=j∧Yn=0]Viα+PnI[Yn=0](6.13)whereViisthenumberofpossiblevaluesofattributei.Thus,αcanbeinterpretedasasmall,possiblyfractionalnumberof“pseudo-observations”oftheattributeinquestion.It’slikeaddingtheseobservationstotheactualdataset.Whatvalueforαdoweuse?Fittingitsvalueonthedatasetwillnotwork,becausethereasonweaddeditwasexactlybecauseweassumedtherewastoolittledatainthefirstplace(wehadn’treceivedoneofthoseannoying“Nigeria”emailsyet)andthuswillrelatetothephenomenonofoverfitting.However,wecanusethetrickdescribedinsection??wherewesplitthedatatwopieces.Welearnamodelononechunkandadjustαsuchthatperformanceoftheotherchunkisoptimal.Weplaythisgamethismultipletimeswithdifferentsplitsandaveragetheresults. #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 240 Context: # Exercises ## Exercise 7.2.4.1 To avoid overflow, we can rewrite the Heron's formula into \( A = \sqrt{s} \times \sqrt{s - a} \times \sqrt{s - b} \times \sqrt{s - c} \). However, the result will be slightly less precise as we call \( \sqrt{s} \) times instead of \( s \). ## Exercise 7.2.4.2 Straightforward. Solution is not shown. ## Exercise 7.3.4.1 Test it by yourself. Solution is not shown. ## Exercise 7.3.6.1 Swap point \( a \) and \( b \) when calling `cutPolygon(a, b, Q)`. ## Exercise 7.3.7.1 Edit the c function to accept collinear points. ## Exercise 7.3.7.2 Check your programming language manual. ## Exercise 7.3.7.3 Solution is not shown. # Chapter 8 ## Exercise 8.2.1 Solution is not shown. ## Exercise 8.4.1 As we want a perfect matching, we do not want an unmatched vertex! So if we already get an optimal matching for vertex p1, we will push all possible choices on p2, then we can break. This will reduce the time complexity from \( O(N^2 \times 2^N) \) down to \( O(2^{N} \times N^2) \). ## Exercise 8.4.5 Solution is not shown. #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 247 Context: IndexA*,203ACM,1Adelson-Velskii,Georgii,38All-PairsShortestPaths,96FindingNegativeCycle,99MinimaxandMaximin,99PrintingShortestPaths,98TransitiveClosure,99AlternatingPathAlgorithm,116Array,22ArticulationPoints,77Backtracking,40BackusNaurForm,153Bayer,Rudolf,38BellmanFord’s,93Bellman,Richard,93Bellman,RichardErnest,95BigInteger,seeJavaBigIntegerClassBinaryIndexedTree,35BinarySearch,47BinarySearchtheAnswer,49,197BinarySearchTree,26BinomialCoefficients,130Bioinformatics,seeStringProcessingBipartiteGraph,114Check,76MaxCardinalityBipartiteMatching,114MaxIndependentSet,115MinPathCover,116MinVertexCover,115BisectionMethod,48,195Bitmask,23,65,205bitset,134BreadthFirstSearch,72,76,90,102Bridges,77BruteForce,39CatalanNumbers,131Catalan,Eug`eneCharles,128CCWTest,180ChinesePostman/RouteInspectionProblem,205Cipher,153Circles,181CoinChange,51,64Combinatorics,129CompetitiveProgramming,1CompleteGraph,206CompleteSearch,39ComputationalGeometry,seeGeometryConnectedComponents,73ConvexHull,191CrossProduct,180CutEdge,seeBridgesCutVertex,seeArticulationPointsCycle-Finding,143DataStructures,21DecisionTree,145Decomposition,197DepthFirstSearch,71DepthLimitedSearch,159,204Deque,26Dijkstra’s,91Dijkstra,EdsgerWybe,91,95DiophantusofAlexandria,132,141DirectAddressingTable,27DirectedAcyclicGraph,107CountingPathsin,108GeneralGraphtoDAG,109LongestPaths,108MinPathCover,116ShortestPaths,108DivideandConquer,47,148,195DivisorsNumberof,138Sumof,139DPonTree,110DynamicProgramming,55,108,160,205EditDistance,160EdmondsKarp’s,102Edmonds,JackR.,95,102EratosthenesofCyrene,132,133EuclidAlgorithm,135ExtendedEuclid,141EuclidofAlexandria,135,187Euler’sPhi,139Euler,Leonhard,132,139EulerianGraph,113,205EulerianGraphCheck,113PrintingEulerTour,114231 #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 78 Context: 66CHAPTER13.FISHERLINEARDISCRIMINANTANALYSISThisisacentralrecurrentequationthatkeepspoppingupineverykernelmachine.Itsaysthatalthoughthefeaturespaceisveryhigh(oreveninfinite)dimensional,withafinitenumberofdata-casesthefinalsolution,w∗,willnothaveacomponentoutsidethespacespannedbythedata-cases.Itwouldnotmakemuchsensetodothistransformationifthenumberofdata-casesislargerthanthenumberofdimensions,butthisistypicallynotthecaseforkernel-methods.So,wearguethatalthoughtherearepossiblyinfinitedimensionsavailableapriori,atmostNarebeingoccupiedbythedata,andthesolutionwmustlieinitsspan.Thisisacaseofthe“representerstheorem”thatintuitivelyreasonsasfollows.Thesolutionwisthesolutiontosomeeigenvalueequation,S12BS−1WS12Bw=λw,wherebothSBandSW(andhenceitsinverse)lieinthespanofthedata-cases.Hence,thepartw⊥thatisperpendiculartothisspanwillbeprojectedtozeroandtheequationaboveputsnoconstraintsonthosedimensions.Theycanbearbitraryandhavenoimpactonthesolution.Ifwenowassumeaverygeneralformofregularizationonthenormofw,thentheseorthogonalcomponentswillbesettozerointhefinalsolution:w⊥=0.IntermsofαtheobjectiveJ(α)becomes,J(α)=αTSΦBααTSΦWα(13.14)whereitisunderstoodthatvectornotationnowappliestoadifferentspace,namelythespacespannedbythedata-vectors,RN.Thescattermatricesinkernelspacecanexpressedintermsofthekernelonlyasfollows(thisrequiressomealgebratoverify),SΦB=XcNc(cid:2)κcκTc−κκT(cid:3)(13.15)SΦW=K2−XcNcκcκTc(13.16)κc=1NcXi∈cKij(13.17)κ=1NXiKij(13.18)So,wehavemanagedtoexpresstheproblemintermsofkernelsonlywhichiswhatwewereafter.Notethatsincetheobjectiveintermsofαhasexactlythesameformasthatintermsofw,wecansolveitbysolvingthegeneralized ########## """QUERY: Please summarize the whole context. 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Page 181, Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf - Page 250, Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf - Page 71, A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf - Page 42, Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf - Page 240, Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf - Page 247, A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf - Page 78 ================================================== **Elapsed Time: 8.20 seconds** ================================================== FINAL ANSWER Answer: The provided context consists of excerpts from two books: "A First Encounter with Machine Learning" by Max Welling and "Competitive Programming, 2nd Edition" by Steven Halim and Felix Halim. **"A First Encounter with Machine Learning"** This book aims to introduce machine learning concepts in an intuitive way, using examples, metaphors, and visualizations alongside precise mathematical explanations. The author emphasizes the importance of understanding the abstract ideas behind the methods and encourages readers to build their own personalized visual representations. **"Competitive Programming, 2nd Edition"** This book is a guide for aspiring competitive programmers, particularly those participating in the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) and the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI). It covers various data structures, algorithms, and problem-solving paradigms commonly encountered in these contests. The authors provide practical tips for improving coding speed, identifying problem types, analyzing algorithms, and testing code effectively. The context highlights the importance of understanding the underlying principles of algorithms and data structures, as well as the need for efficient implementation and testing. It also emphasizes the importance of practice and teamwork in competitive programming. 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