Yandex.Algorithm 2011 - Round1
By frost_nova, 14 years ago, translation, In English

We are glad to welcome all contestants of a qualifying contest "Yandex.Algorithm 2011 - Round 1".

Today's round authors are Vitaly Goldshteyn, Ignat Kolesnichenko, Stanislav Pak and Denis Yarets. All we are employees or interns of Yandex. We really appreciate Artem Rakhov, Maria Belova and Mike Mirzayanov who helped us to prepare the contest. We hope that our tasks will be quite interesting and you will get much fun solving them.

As you may know top 200 contestants after this round will be able to continue fighting for spots in the final round.

Please pay attention that as well as during the previous qualifying round Codeforces functionality will be a little cut down for the time of the competition. Do not worry, all will return into place after the end of the round.

Round will be rated for the official participants, and for those who failed to qualify and participate out of competition (unofficial).

Good luck and high rating for everyone!

Tasks analysis: C
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14 years ago, # |
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Good luck & Have fun!!
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Today I learned Yandex really likes trees! (And so do I, so I enjoyed today's problem set.)
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I liked watching the top 5 challenging each others at the last few minutes! Especially RAVEman and tourist! :)
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I wrote a test case generator for hacking for the first time (for Problem C), but I got an "integer 0 out of range [1, 1000000000]" error.

Any ideas why?

Here's the code: http://pastebin.com/79PFDzrG
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  • 14 years ago, # ^ |
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    The problem statement says "positive integer", so you need to change from '                        System.out.println(i);' to '                        System.out.println(i+1);' in line 24
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      Thanks!

      Too bad, that would've been the difference between qualifying and not qualifying :/
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    In the last loop, you print out "0", which is not allowed (any positive integer).
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Does anybody know the pretest 4 for problem C?
What I did was a dp[position][didMistake] for each number.
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No one can beat tourist! Hard luck RAVEman.
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Very fast system test! in 13 minutes only :)
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    Along ago we were to wait 1 hour for system test! Thanks CF for these improvements.
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    How did u solve B?? It looked ample hard to me... U rock dude :)
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I was very lucky. 20 seconds before the end of the contest I've solved only A, but I qualified!
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    Why did you not try B,C,D? 
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    • 14 years ago, # ^ |
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      B and D looked very hard for me. I thought A + C is not enough to qualify, so I decided to solve E.
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      • 14 years ago, # ^ |
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        Congratulation!

        In my opinion, today's problem is a little strange.
        And the statements is too long, I have to read it more than once to get the right meaning.

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Problem B seemed interesting though i couldnt solve it. Can anyone share the idea?
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    I just simulated using 5 deques.
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    Prove that the i'th person who arrives for first action its optimal for him to go to window i mod k1. And the same for actions two and three. Then simulate this. (I did this way, don't know about others...)
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For each window, you save when a person can reach it the first time. This is the maximum of the time the person arrived (or did go to the window before) plus the time it takes for that window and the time the kth person before him finished plus the time it takes for that window.
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Is everyone going to post their solutions for B ? :) They all look the same and it's not interesting.

I think C and D are much more interesting to discuss.

In D I used  N*Sqrt(N) algorithm which looked obvious to me. The most popular approach was cartesian tree.  Some others used Interval trees.

I think C was harder than D. I looked at some passed codes and they look like O(N^2), but I am not sure.


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    I made a solution for C using Fenwick Tree and I haven't seen any solution like mine :D
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      In C I also can't find the solution similar to mine :)  I saw some easier solutions.

      Still, D allowed much more different solutions and therefore, it was easier than C in my opinion.

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        I've got a segment tree solution for problem D. It's an offline algorithm, I find all values which I can have. Then I sort and take the unique elements. This is the reference array for my segment tree. The actual array for the segment tree is a boolean valued array, which represents if the i-th element exists in the set or not.
        I run a dp/segment tree kind of query from the root for each sum query. I compute the number of elements in the left subtree (using another count dp/segtree). The the offset for the right subtree is (parentOffset + left)%5
        In this way I get the list of all elements in log(n)

        For every update, I start at the leaf and proceed towards the root, unsetting all the dp values.

        I liked this idea, it was going around in my head for a while, finally implemented it today :) 
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          Our idea is same,I also use segment tree and I got Accepted using 280ms in Final Test.I like this problem:)
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Problem E may be too easy.
Just a little bit tight time limit.
An easy o(n^2 log n) solution with small time constant can pass ...
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    Yes, it may happen because of necessity to double a working time of a reference solution written in Java, that is why a few optimized O(n2 log(n)) C++ solutions have managed to pass system tests. We are sorry for that. Planned asymptotic is O(n2), but there is O(n) solution.
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      Could you share the idea of O(n) solution?
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Increase the number of programmers qualifying for the second round if u can 200 seems too less.... :-|
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Why there are passed O(N^2 log N) solutions in problem D's status? Like this one with id 464685:

#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
#include <algorithm>
#include <string>

using namespace std;

#define long long long

#ifdef DEBUG
#define WATCH(x) (cerr << #x << '=' << (x) << endl)
#define TRACE(x) (cerr << (x) << endl)
#else
#define WATCH(x) /*()*/
#define TRACE(x) /*()*/
#endif

vector<int> v;
int n;
int main() {
    cin >> n;
    v.reserve(n);
    for(int i = 0; i < n; ++i) {
        string s; cin >> s;
        if (s == "sum") {
            int l = v.size();
            long sum = 0;
            for(int i = 2; i < l; i += 5) {
                sum += v[i];
            }
            cout << sum << endl;
        } else {
            int x; cin >> x;
            if (s == "add") {              
                v.insert(lower_bound(v.begin(), v.end(), x), x);
            } else { // s == "del"
                v.erase(lower_bound(v.begin(), v.end(), x));
            }
        }
    }
}

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    It's not N2logn, but N2. And it have very small constant, so it passed.

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      The use of lower_bound function makes the del and add N log N so totally N^2 log N. Am I wrong?
      EDIT: Hehe!! Of course I'm wrong!! Sorry :D
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    why it's O(N^2 log N)? I think it's just O(N^2) 
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    Because all the test cases are sorted or just random numbers
    I am sure this solution will fail if a test case like this one exists

    100000
    add 100000
    add 99999
    .
    .
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    add 2
    add 1

    Too bad there are no hacks during practice!
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      Agree with you. The testdata looks weak.
      This kind of problems should generate data with defferent monotonicity to beat various brute force approaches.
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      It will work ~2 times slowlier. But TL is 4 seconds, so that this solution could pass.
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        This is so weird! I am very curious to know what is happening!

        "A vector is a Sequence that supports random access to elements, constant time insertion and removal of elements at the end, and linear time insertion and removal of elements at the beginning or in the middle."
        source: http://www.sgi.com/tech/stl/Vector.html

        Do you have an explanation?
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          There are about 5· 109 primitive copy operations. Modern processors are fast enough to handle this amount of work in 4 seconds.
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            Check the links, doing 5.109 simple operations took more time!
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              Are you know that ideone and codeforces have different servers? Try to run your code here.
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                More or less the same result, the simple nested loop run slower (3780 ms) than the vector (3050 ms).

                I expected that inserting elements at the beginning of a vector and shifting the whole vector content would be slower than a simple nested loop but the result was a surprise!
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                  I suppose this is because memmove which vector<int> uses for shifting is thoroughly optimized.
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        I've tested this solution on such case, it works for ~3 seconds. However, I was surprised that there is no similar case in official tests.
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    #define long long long
    :D
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I found a small bug on codeforces: top-rated on the top page looks a bit old. http://gyazo.com/9c850d39ab001b012816baaf52becd9a.png
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Does smb have problems with registration outside the Round 2?
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E was quite actually nice problem. Nice concept. Thanks for the round.

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