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CS 325, Algorithms, Fall 2019
HW9 - Graphs (part 2), DP (part 4)

Due Monday Nov 25, 11:59pm. 
No late submission will be accepted.

Include in your submission: report.txt, dijkstra.py, nbest.py.
dijkstra.py will be graded for correctness (1%).

Textbooks for References:
[1] CLRS Ch. 22 (graph)
[2] my DP tutorial (up to page 16):
    http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~huanlian/slides/COLING-tutorial-anim.pdf
[3] DPV Ch. 3, 4.2, 4.4, 4.7, 6 (Dasgupta, Papadimitriou, Vazirani)
    https://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~vazirani/algorithms/chap3.pdf
    https://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~vazirani/algorithms/chap4.pdf
    https://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~vazirani/algorithms/chap6.pdf
[4] KT Ch. 6 (DP)
    http://www.aw-bc.com/info/kleinberg/assets/downloads/ch6.pdf
[5] KT slides: Greedy II (Dijkstra)
    http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~wayne/kleinberg-tardos/

***Please answer time/space complexities for each problem in report.txt.

1. [WILL BE GRADED]
   Dijkstra (see CLRS 24.3 and DPV 4.4)
   
   Given an undirected graph, find the shortest path from source (node 0)
   to target (node n-1). 
   
   Edge weights are guaranteed to be non-negative, since Dijkstra doesn't work
   with negative weights, e.g.
 
       3
   0 ------ 1   
     \    /
    2 \  / -2
       \/
       2
   
   in this example, Dijkstra would return length 2 (path 0-2), 
   but path 0-1-2 is better (length 1).

   For example (return a pair of shortest-distance and shortest-path):
   
       1
   0 ------ 1   
     \    /  \
    5 \  /1   \6
       \/   2  \
       2 ------ 3
            
   >>> shortest(4, [(0,1,1), (0,2,5), (1,2,1), (2,3,2), (1,3,6)])
   (4, [0,1,2,3])

   If the target node (n-1) is unreachable from the source (0),
   return None:

   >>> shortest(5, [(0,1,1), (0,2,5), (1,2,1), (2,3,2), (1,3,6)])
   None

   Another example:

      1          1
   0-----1    2-----3

   >>> shortest(4, [(0,1,1), (2,3,1)])
   None

   Tiebreaking: arbitrary. Any shortest path would do.

   Filename: dijkstra.py

   Hint: please use heapdict from here:
   https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DanielStutzbach/heapdict/master/heapdict.py

   >>> from heapdict import heapdict
   >>> h = heapdict()
   >>> h['a'] = 3
   >>> h['b'] = 1
   >>> h.peekitem()
   ('b', 1)
   >>> h['a'] = 0
   >>> h.peekitem()
   ('a', 0)
   >>> h.popitem()
   ('a', 0)
   >>> len(h)
   1
   >>> 'a' in h
   False
   >>> 'b' in h 
   True

   You don't need to submit heapdict.py; we have it in our grader.


2. [Redo the nbest question from Midterm, preparing for HW10 part 3]

   Given k pairs of lists A_i and B_i (0 <= i < k), each with n sorted numbers,
   find the n smallest pairs in all the (k n^2) pairs.
   We say (x,y) < (x', y') if and only if x+y < x'+y'.
   Tie-breaking: lexicographical (i.e., prefer smaller x).

   You can base your code on the skeleton from the Midterm:

    from heapq import heappush, heappop
    def nbest(ABs):    # no need to pass in k or n
        k = len(ABs)
        n = len(ABs[0][0])
        def trypush(i, p, q):  # push pair (A_i,p, B_i,q) if possible
            A, B = ABs[i] # A_i, B_i
            if p < n and q < n and ______________________________:
                heappush(h, (________________, i, p, q, (A[p],B[q])))
                used.add((i, p, q))
        h, used = ___________________                 # initialize
        for i in range(k):  # NEED TO OPTIMIZE
            trypush(______________)
        for _ in range(n): 
            _, i, p, q, pair = ________________
            yield pair     # return the next pair (in a lazy list)
            _______________________
            _______________________


    But recall we had two optimizations to speed up the first for-loop (queue initialization):

    (1) using heapify instead of k initial pushes. You need to implement this (very easy).

    (2) using qselect to choose top n out of the k bests. This one is OPTIONAL.

    Analyze the time complexity for the version you implemented.
 
    >>> list(nbest([([1,2,4], [2,3,5]), ([0,2,4], [3,4,5])])) 

    [(0, 3), (1, 2), (0, 4)]

    >>> list(nbest([([-1,2],[1,4]), ([0,2],[3,4]), ([0,1],[4,6]), ([-1,2],[1,5])])) 
    [(-1, 1), (-1, 1)]

    >>> list(nbest([([5,6,10,14],[3,5,10,14]),([2,7,9,11],[3,8,12,16]),([1,3,8,10],[5,9,10,11]),([1,2,3,5],[3,4,9,10]),([4,5,9,10],[2,4,6,11]),([4,6,10,13],[2,3,5,9]),([3,7,10,12],[1,2,5,10]),([5,9,14,15],[4,8,13,14])]))

    [(1, 3), (3, 1), (1, 4), (2, 3)]

    >>> list(nbest([([1,6,8,13],[5,8,11,12]),([1,2,3,5],[5,9,11,13]),([3,5,7,10],[4,6,7,11]),([1,4,7,8],[4,9,11,15]),([4,8,10,13],[4,6,10,11]),([4,8,12,15],[5,10,11,13]),([2,3,4,8],[4,7,11,15]),([4,5,10,15],[5,6,7,8])]))

    [(1, 4), (1, 5), (1, 5), (2, 4)]

    This problem prepares you for the hardest question in HW10 (part 3).

    Filename: nbest.py
       


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