Given an array A of N integers. Find two integers x and y such that the sum of the absolute difference between each array element to one of the two chosen integers is minimal.
Determine the minimum value of the expression
Σ(i=0 to n) min( abs(a[i] - x), abs(a[i] - y) )
Example 1:
N = 4
A = [2,3,6,7]
Approach
You can choose the two integers, 3 and 7
The required sum = |2-3| + |3-3| + |6-7| + |7-7| = 1+0+0+1 = 2
Example 2:
N = 8
A = [ 2, 3, 5, 8, 11, 14, 17, 996 ]
Approach
You can choose the two integers, 8 and 996
The required sum = |2-8| + |3-8| + |5-8| + |8-8| + |11-8| + |14-8| + |17-8| + |996-996| = 6+5+3+0+3+6+9+0 = 32
Constraints
1<=T<=100
2<=N<=5*10^3
1<=A[i]<=10^5
The sum of N over all test cases does not exceed 5*10^3.
**My code : **
Please help me with the optimal solution O(N) or O(NlogN)
int minAbsDiff(vector<int> Arr, int N)
{
// Approach: O(N^3)
sort(Arr.begin(), Arr.end());
int sum = INT_MAX;
for (int i = 0; i < N; i++)
for (int j = i + 1; j < N; j++)
{
int tmp_sum = 0;
for (int k = 0; k < N; k++)
{
tmp_sum += min(abs(Arr[k] - Arr[i]), abs(Arr[k] - Arr[j]));
}
sum = min(sum, tmp_sum);
}
std::cout << "Sum is :" << sum << std::endl;
return sum;
}
I have a string of n chars and a k length of unique substrings
I'm trying to understand the time complexity of this code:
for (int i = 0; i <= inputStr.length() - k; i++) {
String substr = inputStr.substring(i, i + k);
Set<Character> setChars = new HashSet<Character>();
for (int j = 0; j < k; j++) {
setChars.add(substr.charAt(j));
}
if (setChars.size() == num) {
set.add(substr);
}
}
If I correctly understood the time complexity might be expressed by the formula:
f((n-k+1)*k)
I believe that the worse case I can have is when k = n/2, so:
f((n-k+1)k) = nn/2 - n/2*n/2 + n/2 = 1/2*n*n - 1/4*n*n + 1/2*n =>
O(n)
You are correct until the implication.
f((n-k+1)k) = nn/2 - n/2*n/2 + n/2 = 1/2*n*n - 1/4*n*n + 1/2*n
= 1/4n*n + 1/2*n => O(n*n)
From an input of space-delimited words, how to concatenate consecutive words so that:
each group has a minimum length L (spaces don't count)
longest group length is minimal (spaces don't count)
Example input:
would a cat eat a mouse
Example minimum length:
L = 5
Naive algorithm that solves the first condition but not the second one:
while length of a group is less than L, concatenate next word to group
if last group is shorter than L, concatenate last two groups together
This naive algorithm produces:
group 1: would
group 2: acateat
group 3: amouse
longest group length: 7
Second condition is not solved because a better solution would be:
group 1: woulda
group 2: cateat
group 3: amouse
longest group length: 6
Which algorithm would solve the second condition (minimal longest group) with relatively fast execution as a program? (by fast, I'd like to avoid testing all possible combinations)
I know C, ObjC, Swift, Javascript, Python, but pseudocode is fine.
This can be done with dynamic programming approach. Let's count a function F(i) - the minimum length of the longest group among correct divisions of the first i words into groups.
F(0) = 0
F(i) = Min(Max(F(j), totalLen(j+1, i))), for j in [0..i-1]
Where
totalLen(i, j) = total length of words from i to j, if the length is at least L
totalLen(i, j) = MAX, if total length is less than L
The answer is the value of F(n). To get the groups themselves we can save the indices of the best j for every i.
There is a implementation from the scratch in c++:
const vector<string> words = {"would", "a", "cat", "eat", "a", "mouse"};
const int L = 5;
int n = words.size();
vector<int> prefixLen = countPrefixLen(words);
vector<int> f(n+1);
vector<int> best(n+1, -1);
int maxL = prefixLen[n];
f[0] = 0;
for (int i = 1; i <= n; ++i) {
f[i] = maxL;
for (int j = 0; j < i; ++j) {
int totalLen = prefixLen[i] - prefixLen[j];
if (totalLen >= L) {
int maxLen = max(f[j], totalLen);
if (f[i] > maxLen) {
f[i] = maxLen;
best[i] = j;
}
}
}
}
output(f[n], prev, words);
Preprocessing and output details:
vector<int> countPrefixLen(const vector<string>& words) {
int n = words.size();
vector<int> prefixLen(n+1);
for (int i = 1; i <= n; ++i) {
prefixLen[i] = prefixLen[i-1] + words[i-1].length();
}
return prefixLen;
}
void output(int answer, const vector<int>& best, const vector<string>& words) {
cout << answer << endl;
int j = best.size()-1;
vector<int> restoreIndex(1, j);
while (j > 0) {
int i = best[j];
restoreIndex.push_back(i);
j = i;
}
reverse(restoreIndex.begin(), restoreIndex.end());
for (int i = 0; i+1 < restoreIndex.size(); ++i) {
for (int j = restoreIndex[i]; j < restoreIndex[i+1]; ++j) {
cout << words[j] << ' ';
}
cout << endl;
}
}
Output:
6
would a
cat eat
a mouse
Runnable: https://ideone.com/AaV5C8
Further improvement
The complexity of this algorithm is O(N^2). If it is too slow for your data I can suggest a simple optimization:
Let's inverse the inner loop. First, this allows to get rid of the prefixLen array and it's preprocessing, because now we add words one by one to the group (actually, we could get rid of this preprocessing in the initial version, but at the expense of simplicity). What is more important we can break our loop when totalLen would be not less than already computed f[i] because further iterations will never lead to an improvement. The code of the inner loop could be changed to:
int totalLen = 0;
for (int j = i-1; j >= 0; --j) {
totalLen += words[j].length();
if (totalLen >= L) {
int maxLen = max(f[j], totalLen);
if (f[i] > maxLen) {
f[i] = maxLen;
best[i] = j;
}
}
if (totalLen >= f[i]) break;
}
This can drastically improve the performance for not very big values of L.
First of all, of course I saw similar questions and solutions, but my implementation is a little bit different.
The main problem is that, the my code works only for one process, but it doesn't work for more processes.
I don't know what is the cause of this... Probably in communication between processes but I can't figure it out ;/
#include <mpi.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <math.h>
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
int x = 0;
double kk;
int proces;
int numprocs;
int right_neigh, left_neigh, up_neigh, down_neigh;
int tag = 99;
static const int n = 6; //size of matrices
int psa[n][n]; //nxn
int psb[n][n];
int pra[n][n];
int prb[n][n];
int c[n][n];
for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) { //let's make fist matrix
for (int j = 0; j < n; j++) {
psa[i][j] = (int)rand() % 100 + 1;
psb[i][j] = (int)rand() % 100 + 1;
c[i][j] = 0;
}
}
for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) { //an the 2nd one
for (int j = 0; j < n; j++) {
pra[i][j] = psa[i][j];
prb[i][j] = psb[i][j];
}
}
MPI_Status statRecv[2];
MPI_Request reqSend[2], reqRecv[2];
MPI_Init(&argc, &argv);
MPI_Comm_rank(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &proces);
MPI_Comm_size(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &numprocs);
int PP = numprocs;
double np = numprocs;
kk = sqrt(np);
int k = (int)kk;
if (proces < k) // below neighbour set
{
left_neigh = (proces + k - 1) % k;
right_neigh = (proces + k + 1) % k;
up_neigh = ((k - 1)*k) + proces;
}
if (proces == k)
{
left_neigh = ((proces + k - 1) % k) + k;
right_neigh = ((proces + k + 1) % k) + k;
up_neigh = proces - k;
}
if (proces > k)
{
x = proces / k;
left_neigh = ((proces + k - 1) % k) + x * k;
right_neigh = ((proces + k + 1) % k) + x * k;
up_neigh = proces - k;
}
if (proces == 0 || (proces / k) < (k - 1))
{
down_neigh = proces + k;
}
if ((proces / k) == (k - 1))
{
down_neigh = proces - ((k - 1)*k);
}
x = 0;
for(int kk = 0; kk < PP; kk++) //algorithm
{
for (int i = 0; i < n / PP; i++)
{
for (int j = 0; j < n / PP; j++)
{
for (int k = 0; k < n / PP; k++)
{
c[i][j] += psa[i][k] * psb[k][j];
}
}
}
MPI_Irecv(pra, n*n / PP / PP,MPI_FLOAT,left_neigh, tag,MPI_COMM_WORLD, reqRecv);
MPI_Irecv(prb, n*n / PP / PP,MPI_FLOAT,down_neigh,tag,MPI_COMM_WORLD,&reqRecv[1]);
MPI_Isend(psa, n*n / PP / PP,MPI_FLOAT,right_neigh,tag,MPI_COMM_WORLD, reqSend);
MPI_Isend(psb, n*n / PP / PP,MPI_FLOAT,up_neigh,tag,MPI_COMM_WORLD,&reqSend[1]);
MPI_Wait(reqRecv, statRecv);
}
cout << "A" << endl; //show result
for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
for (int j = 0; j < n; j++) {
cout << pra[i][j] << " ";
}
cout << endl;
}
cout << "B" << endl;
for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
for (int j = 0; j < n; j++) {
cout << prb[i][j] << " ";
}
cout << endl;
}
cout << "C" << endl;
for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
for (int j = 0; j < n; j++) {
cout << c[i][j] << " ";
}
cout << endl;
}
MPI_Finalize();
return 0;
}
Ok I made it. Now everything is cool, my friend helped me out. But Admin please do not remove it, it can be helpful for someone.
#include <mpi.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <math.h>
#include <iostream> using namespace std; int main(int argc, char **argv) { int x = 0; double kk; int proces; int numprocs; int prawy_sasiad, lewy_sasiad, gorny_sasiad, dolny_sasiad; int tag = 99;
static const int n = 4; //rozmiar tablic
const int PP = 2; // pierwiastek z liczby procesow
int A[n][n] = {}, B[n][n] = {};
for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {//inicjalizacja macierzy glownych
for (int j = 0; j < n; j++) {
A[i][j] = (int)rand() % 100 + 1;
B[i][j] = (int)rand() % 100 + 1;
}
}
/*
int val = 1;
for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) { //inicjalizacja macierzy glownych
for (int j = 0; j < n; j++) {
A[i][j] = val;
B[i][j] = val;
val++;
}
}
*/
MPI_Status statRecv2;
MPI_Request reqSend2, reqRecv2;
MPI_Status statRecv[2];
MPI_Request reqSend[2], reqRecv[2];
MPI_Init(0, 0);
MPI_Comm_rank(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &proces);
MPI_Comm_size(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &numprocs);
int pra[n / PP][n / PP] = {}, psa[n / PP][n / PP] = {};// podmacierze
int prb[n / PP][n / PP] = {}, psb[n / PP][n / PP] = {};
//int C[n / PP][n / PP] = {};//wynikowa
int C[n][n] = {};//wynikowa
//cout << proces << endl;
for (int i = 0; i < n / PP; i++)//podzielenie macierzy glownej na podmacierze, kazdy proces otrzymuje inna podmacierz
{
for (int j = 0; j < n / PP; j++)
{
psa[i][j] = A[proces / PP*(n / PP) + i][proces%PP*(n / PP) + j];
psb[i][j] = B[proces / PP*(n / PP) + i][proces%PP*(n / PP) + j];
//cout << A[proces / PP*(n / PP) + i][proces%PP*(n / PP) + j] << " ";
}
//cout << endl;
}
double np = numprocs;
kk = sqrt(np);
int k = (int)kk;
if (proces < k) // ustawienie sasiadow
{
lewy_sasiad = (proces + k - 1) % k;
prawy_sasiad = (proces + k + 1) % k;
gorny_sasiad = ((k - 1)*k) + proces;
}
if (proces == k)
{
lewy_sasiad = ((proces + k - 1) % k) + k;
prawy_sasiad = ((proces + k + 1) % k) + k;
gorny_sasiad = proces - k;
}
if (proces > k)
{
x = proces / k;
lewy_sasiad = ((proces + k - 1) % k) + x * k;
prawy_sasiad = ((proces + k + 1) % k) + x * k;
gorny_sasiad = proces - k;
}
if (proces == 0 || (proces / k) < (k - 1))
{
dolny_sasiad = proces + k;
}
if ((proces / k) == (k - 1))
{
dolny_sasiad = proces - ((k - 1)*k);
}
x = 0;
int p = 0;
do{ //przesuniecia
if (p < proces / PP)// w wierszu
{
MPI_Irecv(pra, n*n / PP / PP, MPI_FLOAT, prawy_sasiad, tag, MPI_COMM_WORLD, &reqRecv2);
MPI_Isend(psa, n*n / PP / PP, MPI_FLOAT, lewy_sasiad, tag, MPI_COMM_WORLD, &reqSend2);
MPI_Wait(&reqRecv2, &statRecv2);
for (int i = 0; i < n / PP; i++)
{
for (int j = 0; j < n / PP; j++)
{
psa[i][j] = pra[i][j];
}
}
}
MPI_Barrier(MPI_COMM_WORLD);
if (p < proces % PP)// i w kolumnie
{
MPI_Irecv(prb, n*n / PP / PP, MPI_FLOAT, dolny_sasiad, tag, MPI_COMM_WORLD, &reqRecv2);
MPI_Isend(psb, n*n / PP / PP, MPI_FLOAT, gorny_sasiad, tag, MPI_COMM_WORLD, &reqSend2);
MPI_Wait(&reqRecv2, &statRecv2);
for (int i = 0; i < n / PP; i++)
{
for (int j = 0; j < n / PP; j++)
{
psb[i][j] = prb[i][j];
}
}
}
MPI_Barrier(MPI_COMM_WORLD);
p++;
} while (p < n);
//MPI_Barrier(MPI_COMM_WORLD);
for (int kkk = 0; kkk < PP; kkk++) //algorytm
{
for (int i = 0; i < n / PP; i++)
{
for (int j = 0; j < n / PP; j++)
{
for (int k = 0; k < n / PP; k++)
{
C[i][j] += psa[i][k] * psb[k][j];
}
}
}
MPI_Irecv(pra, n*n / PP / PP, MPI_FLOAT, prawy_sasiad, tag, MPI_COMM_WORLD, reqRecv);
MPI_Irecv(prb, n*n / PP / PP, MPI_FLOAT, dolny_sasiad, tag, MPI_COMM_WORLD, &reqRecv[1]);
MPI_Isend(psa, n*n / PP / PP, MPI_FLOAT, lewy_sasiad, tag, MPI_COMM_WORLD, reqSend);
MPI_Isend(psb, n*n / PP / PP, MPI_FLOAT, gorny_sasiad, tag, MPI_COMM_WORLD, &reqSend[1]);
MPI_Wait(reqRecv, statRecv);
MPI_Barrier(MPI_COMM_WORLD);
for (int i = 0; i < n / PP; i++)
{
for (int j = 0; j < n / PP; j++)
{
psa[i][j] = pra[i][j];
}
}
for (int i = 0; i < n / PP; i++)
{
for (int j = 0; j < n / PP; j++)
{
psb[i][j] = prb[i][j];
}
}
}
cout << "Proces: " << proces << " ";
for (int i = 0; i < n / PP; i++)
{
for (int j = 0; j < n / PP; j++)
{
cout << C[i][j] << " ";
}
}
MPI_Finalize();
return 0;
}
Give big theta bound for:
for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
if (i * i < n) {
for (int j = 0; j < n; j++) {
count++;
}
}
else {
int k = i;
while (k > 0) {
count++;
k = k / 2;
}
}
}
So here's what I think..Not sure if it's right though:
The first for loop will run for n iterations. Then the for for loop within the first for loop will run for n iterations as well, giving O(n^2).
For the else statement, the while loop will run for n iterations and the k = k/ 2 will run for logn time giving O(nlogn). So then the entire thing will look like n^2 + nlogn and by taking the bigger run time, the answer would be theta n^2 ?
I would say the result is O(nlogn) because i*i is typically not smaller than n for a linear n. The else branch will dominate.
Example:
n= 10000
after i=100 the else part will be calculated instead of the inner for loop