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By shashank21j, 10 years ago, In English

HackerRank presents 15th week of Weekly Contest.
The week long contest will begin on on 25th May 16:00 UTC. We’ll put your coding skills to the test with 5 interesting challenges.

Each day you get to solve a challenge whose difficulty level increases as the week progresses. Challenge score will decrease by 10% every 24 hours. To solve the final challenge, you're given an entire weekend.

Tie-breaking rule: For each challenge, we calculate your solved time, t. [t = submit — open] where submit is the time you submitted the solution, and open is the time you opened the challenge. This way, you do not have to worry about solving the challenge as soon as it becomes available.

Top 10 on leaderboard will get a cool HackerRank T shirt.

You can visit the contest page in order to register.

Setters
MatRush
robinyu
Adigha
ma5termind
laoriu

Week 15

https://www.hackerrank.com/w15

Happy Coding!

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Can you turn on displaying of time elapsed by default in scoreboard?

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That awkward moment when you saw same very similar problem from same author in other contest two months ago, and you were a tester of that contest :)

This problem from HackerEarth March Clash have simpler alternative solution; at the same time, solution by author (centroid decomposition + knapsack on Euler tour) works well for last problem from Weekly 15 :) You only need to change sum to max.

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    Yes, they are similar. But the to get AC the previous problem we just need do a simple dp. Since the more complicated solution has not discussed, so I thought it is ok to write another version on this contest. Sorry for the coincide.

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    Could you please explain the solution to this problem in details?

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      I got a AC, but it's O(n3).

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        I thought that's impossible, given that it's an extended version of Knapsack Problem?

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      I'll try — but I guess it will be not a very clear explanation :)

      Let's build a centriod decomposition of a tree. Now every vertex have it's level — root of a tree (rank 0) divides it in few subtrees, every subtree have it's own root (rank 1), which is dividing it in new subtrees etc.

      We are interested in connected subgraphs of a tree. Let's fix main vertex V which belongs to our subgraph and have highest level in decomposition hierarchy among all vertices forming a subgraph. There can't be two such vertices in our subgraph — because every path between two vertices of rank X containts at least one vertex of rank X-1. Therefore every possible connected subgraph is uniquely described by its main vertex V and completely belongs to subtree of V in decomposition.

      Now we have to solve a bit easier problem for this vertex V and its subtree — you have to solve your connected subgraph knapsack task on a tree, but root of a tree have to be taken. Sort vertices in order of traversal and you will get almost classical knapsack :) For every vertex Q, you may either take it (and move to next vertex in order of traversal) or not take it — but in this case you also can't take vertices in subtree of Q now, so you have to move straight to the first vertex outside subtree of Q.

      It gives us O(N * K) solution for a subtask, where K is size of knapsack and N is size of subtree. Overall size of subtrees at one level is O(n), and you have O(log(n)) levels in centriod decomposition. Overall complexity is O(n * K * log(n)).

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      A little bit different explanation which does not start with the centriod decomposition but rather comes to it naturally:

      Let's pick an arbitrary vertex v and make it a root of the tree. Under the assumption that it is the root and that we take it, we can solve this problem in O(|V| * m) time using the following idea: when we enter a vertex, we can do two things:

      1. Do not take it. In this case, we can't take any of its children(because we assume that the root is taken).

      2. Take it and do something with its children. The order of visiting children does not matter, so we can pass the same vector around. Here is a piece of code which implements it:

        void dfs2(int v, int p, vector<int>& dp) {
            // dpAt[v] corresponds to the case when we take v.
            fill(dpAt[v].begin(), dpAt[v].end(), -INF);
            for (int i = cost[v]; i <= m; i++)
                dpAt[v][i] = dp[i - cost[v]] + val[v]; 
            for (int to : g[v])
                if (to != p && !bad[to]) 
                    // Important note: we pass the same vector to the children,
                    // which gets updated properly inside them. 
                    dfs2(to, v, dpAt[v]);
            // dp corresponds to the case when we do not take it.
            // We choose the best of two options.
            for (int i = 0; i <= m; i++)
                dp[i] = max(dp[i], dpAt[v][i]);
        }
        
        ...
        dfs2(root, root, vector with zeros)

      These observations lead to an obvious O(n^2 * m) solution: we can just test all possible roots. But it is still not good enough. One more observation: if we do not pick v, we can simply delete it from the tree and solve the problem independently for smaller trees. That's it. So the final solution is:

      1. Pick a "good" vertex(like in the centriod decomposition).

      2. Run the algorithm described above by making it a root.

      3. Delete it from the tree and solve smaller subproblems recursively.

      The time complexity is O(n * m * log n)(there are O(log n) levels and each vertex is processed at most once per level).

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For the last problem, I just DFS and do knapsack but with a trick that I only considered some special value.Let's call f[x][i] as max value of a connected component of subtree x with weight smaller than i+1.Also call parent of x is p.Then I just do knapsack on p f[p][i+j]=max(f[p][i+j],f[p][i]+f[x][j]) such that f[p][i]>f[p][i-1] and f[x][j]>f[x][j-1].Can anyone give a proof of the time complexity of this or point out an example when this solution failed.

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Was there some rejudge on last problem or additional test cases added? I was 10th with full score when the contest was over so I expected to get a T-shirt, today I checked out the results and I see myself on 20th place with 2 testcases failed due to timeout. Why would that happen after the contest is over?

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    Yes we did a rejudge, after you had pointed out that tests were weak. We did this to be fair to people who solved with efficient algorithm.

    It's fair to you too because since if your solution failed on the rejudge of challenge day, your next attempt's best score would be 135. And you have 135.72 now.

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      I see your point, but that seems to be 'over-fair' to get out of T-shirt zone because of my own comment about test data missing in your contest. After all that's not my job to look for missing test cases.

      Please get me right, I'm not asking for this particular T-shirt, it's just me being surprised a bit about such a scenario. In my (quite limited) experience that is the first contest I see where something is going on after the contest is finished for several days.

      Anyway probably my main concern is that it was done quietly behind the scenes, at least you could reply to my comment about your test data missing. Otherwise I have already added this one to my list "T-shirts to come" and had no idea that there was some rejudge afterwards.

      Anyway, on the positive side, I'd like to thank you and contest setter for great problems (in this particular contest and previous weekly challenges where I took part).