I am stuck in the ELEVATOR problem in cses dp section. I tried to find the solution online but couldn`t find any reliable source. PROBLEM LINK — https://cses.fi/problemset/task/1653. It would be a great help if someone can explain the idea behind it.
See here: Competitive Programmer's Handbook pdf page 103-104
Thanks a lot.
I cant understand what the bit operations are doing. Can you explain them?
s&(1<<p)
— checking is p-th bit set(true if set, false if not).s^(1<<p)
— XOR operation unsets only p-th bit(ifs
was111
and we applieds^(1<<1)
thens
transformed to101
)we have the same pfp
I solved in this way I have two fields DP and Moves
Moves[Mask] — the minimum number of elevator rides
DP[Mask] — Minimum Weight Sum of People for the last Move
We know that we have moves in the priority so the transitions were
newDp = (DP[mask ^ (1 << j)] + w[j]) % x
newMoves = (Moves[mask ^ (1 << j)] + (newDp > Dp[mask ^ (1 << j]))
It means that if newDp is bigger that x then new Move is added, and we change the Moves and DP, if Moves > newMoves or (newDp < DP and Moves = newMoves)
don't you think in else part there should be option.second=min(option.second,weight[p])?????
no option.second=min(option.second,weight[p]) is incorrect, because we are considering last ride. It means (let the current ride be nth ride), --> we have already completed (n — 1)th ride, so we cannot go back to some kth ride which is obviously (1 <= k < n) and update it.
can you tell me why for input {2,3,4,5,9} and lift capaicty as 12 the above algorithm prints:-
best[31].first as 1 and best[31].second as 11
don't you think (best[31].first) which is actually minimum no of rides should print 2, not 1.
best[mask].first is the number of complete rides, and best[mask].second is the weigth of the current ride.
If best[mask].second == 0, thus the minimum number of rides for mask is best[mask].first, else this number is best[mask].first + 1 (+1 because of the incomplete ride)
For a mask, for a set bit b, we are checking whether it can fit in the group already formed with least sum, at this time it is possible that for current mask the minimum sum group will not be (weight[b]+dp_sum[remaining]) and we should now change this dp_sum[current_mask] to sum of the group with least sum. Why we are not doing that? For ex: we have 8,6,4 and max_wt=10, and dp_sum[(8,6)] = 6 and rides[{8,6}] = 2 and on checking for weight 4, dp_sum[{8,6}]+4=10, we are actually doing dp_sum[{8,6,4}]=10 but should not we do dp_sum[{8,6,4}] = 8; as from {8}, {6,4} these groups, 8 has minimum sum group.