An alternative sorting order for Mo's algorithm

Правка en14, от gepardo, 2020-11-19 20:39:38

Hello, Codeforces!

I think many of you know about Mo's algorithm. For those, who don't know, please read this blog.

Here, I consider an alternative (and faster) approach of sorting queries in Mo's algorithm.

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Canonical version of the algorithm

The canonical version of this algorithm has time complexity if insertions and deletions work in O(1).

Usually, the two comparators for query sorting are used. The slowest one:

struct Query {
	int l, r, idx;
	
	inline pair<int, int> toPair() const {
		return make_pair(l / block, r);
	}
};

inline bool operator<(const Query &a, const Query &b) {
	return a.toPair() < b.toPair();
}

We know it can be optimized a little if for even blocks we use the reverse order for the right boundary:

struct Query {
	int l, r, idx;
	
	inline pair<int, int> toPair() const {
		return make_pair(l / block, ((l / block) & 1) ? -r : +r);
	}
};

inline bool operator<(const Query &a, const Query &b) {
	return a.toPair() < b.toPair();
}

Achieving a better time complexity

We can achieve complexity for Mo's algorithm (still assuming that insertions and deletions are O(1)). Note that is always better than . We can prove it as follows:

n2q < n(n + q)2, 

nq < n2 + 2nq + q2, 

n2 + nq + q2 > 0

But how this complexity can be achieved?

Relation to TSP

At first, notice that changing the segment (l1;r1) to (l2;r2) will take |l1 - l2| + |r1 - r2| insertions and deletions.

Denote the queries as (l1;r1), (l2;r2), ..., (lq;rq). We need to permute them to minimize the number of operations, i. e. to find a permutation p1, p2, ... pq such that total number of operations

is minimal possible.

Now we can see the relationship between Mo's algorithm and TSP on Manhattan metrics. Boundaries of queries can be represented as points on 2D plane. And we need to find an optimal route to visit all these points (process all the queries).

But TSP is NP-complete, so it cannot help us to find the optimal query sorting order. Instead, we should use a fast heuristic approach. A good approach would be the use of recursive curves. Wikipedia says about using Sierpiński curve as a basis to find a good TSP solution.

But Sierpiński curve is not very convenient in implementation for integer point coordinates, so we will use another recursive curve: Hilbert curve.

Hilbert curve

Let's build a Hilbert curve on a 2k × 2k matrix and visit all the cells on the matrix according to this curve. Denote ord(i, j, k) as the number of cells visited before the cell (i, j) in order of Hilbert curve on the 2k × 2k matrix. The following picture shows ord(i, j) for each cell on the 8 × 8 matrix:

image

Now we can write a function to determine ord(i, j, k). It will do the following:

  • Divide the matrix onto four parts (as Hilbert curve is built recursively, each part is a rotated Hilbert curve).
  • Determine, in which of the four parts the cell (i, j) is located.
  • Add all the cells in the previous parts. There are 4n - 1·k or them, where k is the number of parts visited before the current one.
  • Recursively go into the selected part (do not forget that it can be rotated).

The code looks in the following way:

inline int64_t hilbertOrder(int x, int y, int pow, int rotate) {
	if (pow == 0) {
		return 0;
	}
	int hpow = 1 << (pow-1);
	int seg = (x < hpow) ? (
		(y < hpow) ? 0 : 3
	) : (
		(y < hpow) ? 1 : 2
	);
	seg = (seg + rotate) & 3;
	const int rotateDelta[4] = {3, 0, 0, 1};
	int nx = x & (x ^ hpow), ny = y & (y ^ hpow);
	int nrot = (rotate + rotateDelta[seg]) & 3;
	int64_t subSquareSize = int64_t(1) << (2*pow - 2);
	int64_t ans = seg * subSquareSize;
	int64_t add = hilbertOrder(nx, ny, pow-1, nrot);
	ans += (seg == 1 || seg == 2) ? add : (subSquareSize - add - 1);
	return ans;
}

Assume the matrix has size 2k × 2k, where 2k ≥ n (you can take k = 20 for most cases or find minimal such k that 2k ≥ n). Now denote oi as ord(li, ri, k) on this matrix. Then sort the queries according to their oi.

Here is the proof why this works in time. Suppose we have n = 2k and q = 4l, where k and l are some integers. (If n and q are not powers of 2 and 4 respectively, we increase them, it don't have any effect on asymptotic). Now divide the matrix onto squares with size 2k - l × 2k - l. To travel between a pair of adjacent squares, we need O(2k - l) time, so we can travel between all the squares in time. Now consider the groups of queries inside a 2k - l × 2k - l square. Here we can travel from one query to another in O(2k - l), so we process all such groups of queries in . So the total time to process all the queries in , which was to be proved.

Benchmarks

Let's compare the canonical version of Mo's algorithm and the version with Hilbert order. To do this, we will use the problem 617E - XOR and Favorite Number with different constraints for n and q. The implementations are here:

  • Standard implementation: code
  • Mo with Hilbert curves: code

To reduce the amount of input and output, the generators are built into the code and the output is hashed.

For benchmarks I used Polygon. The results are here:

n q Standard Mo time Mo+Hilbert time Time ratio
400000 400000 1 2730 ms 2698 ms 1.012
1000000 1000000 1 13602 ms 10841 ms 1.255
500000 250000 2 3369 ms 2730 ms 1.234
1000000 500000 2 10077 ms 7644 ms 1.318
600000 200000 3 4134 ms 2901 ms 1.425
1000000 333333 3 8767 ms 6240 ms 1.405
600000 150000 4 4851 ms 2496 ms 1.944
1000000 250000 4 8672 ms 5553 ms 1.561
700000 140000 5 6255 ms 2854 ms 2.192
1000000 200000 5 8423 ms 5100 ms 1.652
750000 100000 7.5 5116 ms 2667 ms 1.918
1000000 333333 7.5 7924 ms 4009 ms 1.976
1000000 100000 10 7425 ms 3977 ms 1.866
1000000 40000 25 9671 ms 2355 ms 4.107
1000000 20000 50 9016 ms 1590 ms 5.670
1000000 10000 100 6879 ms 1185 ms 5.805
1000000 5000 200 5802 ms 857 ms 6.770
1000000 2500 400 4897 ms 639 ms 7.664

What is interesting, when I ran these codes locally even on the test with n = q (e. g. n = q = 400000), Hilbert version worked about three times faster.

Applicability

As you can see, such sorting order doesn't make Mo's algorithm work slower, and when q is significantly less than n, it works much faster than the classical version. So it is ideal for problems with n = 106 and q = 104. For smaller q solutions with naive query processing can pass.

Thanks to everyone who read this article! I hope it will be useful for someone.

If something is unclear in the post or the post contains bugs, feel free to write in comments.

Теги mo, mos algorithm, sqrt, sqrt decomposition, hilbert, recursion, recursive curves

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en14 Английский gepardo 2020-11-19 20:39:38 1 Tiny change: 'q)\sqrt{n}$. We can ' -> 'q)\sqrt{n})$. We can '
en13 Английский gepardo 2018-09-20 18:30:53 77 Fix proof
en12 Английский gepardo 2018-08-29 06:22:05 22 Bugfix in codes (use [L-1; R] segements instead of [L; R], as required in the problem)
en11 Английский gepardo 2018-08-14 17:49:49 63 Added [cut]
en10 Английский gepardo 2018-08-14 15:52:52 4 Fixed bugs, thanks Vovuh
en9 Английский gepardo 2018-08-14 14:51:38 98 Adding notice about comments
en8 Английский gepardo 2018-08-14 14:46:41 25 Release to the world! (published)
en7 Английский gepardo 2018-08-14 14:44:03 140 Many-many-fixes
en6 Английский gepardo 2018-08-14 14:27:08 90 Fix the proof
en5 Английский gepardo 2018-08-14 14:24:32 2 Tiny change: ' $n = 10^6 and q = 10^4$.' -> ' $n = 10^6$ and $q = 10^4$.'
en4 Английский gepardo 2018-08-14 14:22:57 690 More benchmarks added
en3 Английский gepardo 2018-08-14 14:00:05 457 Added table of contents
en2 Английский gepardo 2018-08-14 13:49:27 5448 The second part of the text is written
en1 Английский gepardo 2018-08-14 12:23:55 3242 Initial revision (saved to drafts)