This is my personal note and might be some kind of user editorial/learning material for some people!
This is the first episode of this "note" series. I will write notes on problems (normally around 2400-ish problems), which are completely solved by myself without looking at the editorial, that are both interesting and educational.
If you want to motivate me to write a continuation (aka note 2), a significant upvote from you would be well appreciated!
Problem link: ABC133F
Try to solve the task independently before continuing the blog.
First of all, we can observe that queries can be done offline and the only thing that matters for each query is the color.
Lets do each color one by one, we can observe that distance between two nodes in the query = original distance $$$-$$$ sum of edge weight of color $$$x$$$ + number of edges that have color $$$x$$$ in the path * new weight length.
Now let us try to find what can be done. We can see that the number of edges with color $$$x$$$ going out of subtree $$$u$$$ will $$$+1$$$ if the starting point is from subtree $$$u$$$. So we can just $$$+1$$$ to all nodes inside subtree $$$u$$$. Then we can see that number of edges from node $$$x$$$ to $$$y$$$. Similarly, we can do $$$+W$$$ for weight sum.
Distance in original graph can be found in $$$O(N log N)$$$ using binary lifting and a dfs function. Simultaneously, since we need to add $$$+1$$$ to each node one by one, we will need to do $$$O(N^2)$$$ to do all necessary operations.
This reduces the problem to $$$O(N ^ 2)$$$, lets optimize it!
We can try finding a better way to do the $$$+1$$$ and $$$+W$$$ operations. Well, if you have learnt dfn, you should be able to solve the problem from here. If we represent $$$tin_{ i }$$$ be the time we entered subtree $$$i$$$ and $$$tout_{ i }$$$ we left subtree $$$i$$$. Then we can use this to observe that we need to do $$$+val$$$ in a range and find a value at a point. What do we need to have if we want to do these operations fast? Yes, segment tree!
However, we cannot just declare a new segment tree each time. We need to reuse the segment tree. So, we'll have to do $$$-1$$$ and $$$-W$$$ operations to revert the segment tree, or do something like range set.
This allows an $$$O(N log N)$$$ solution
Feel free to ask anything about the task. I will try to respond them if I am free.
