Questions tagged [amortized-analysis]
A method in analysis of algorithms that considers the overall cost of a sequence of operations.
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Is using Fibonacci Heaps in Huffman Code, better than a regular Min-heap?
When using Huffman Code, to generate prefix-code trees for a sequence of letters, CLRS choose to use a normal Min-heap data structure.
Using Fibonacci-heaps instead, are we not able to achieve a ...
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Amortized value of dequeue with potential function
A deque is implemented with 3 stacks. one for the head, one for the tail and one is always empty.
Pushing is therefor O(1), light popping (in case the head/tail respectively aren't empty) is also O(1)....
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Can someone let me know if my understanding of amortized run time in a dynamic array list is correct?
Am I right in my understanding for amortized time for insertion in a dynamic array list? (dynamic means create a copy double its size and copy existing elements to new one WHEN we reach the current ...
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converting for loop into mathematical notation
I am a bit confused with a problem that I am having.I am trying to do an amoritized analysis and I am able to represent the function that I want to use using code. I coded the function as follows:
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The accounting Method analysis for table expansion by tripleling instead of doubling an array
If we double the array every time we get the amortized cost of 3n or 3$ if you prefer.
I was wondering what would it be if we tripled the array size instead of doubling it.
The rational between the ...
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When was the dynamic array first introduced as an example for amortized analysis?
I'm writing a report on amortized analysis, and I'm using the example of a dynamic array to explain each method. I think it would be nice to add a reference to when this example was first used, as it ...
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What time complexity is more significant? [closed]
A certain algorithm executes $n$ operations of three types: insert, delete, and find.
We know that $n/10$ of the operations are inserts, and the rest are deletes and finds.
You are given two ...
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Amortized analysis - increment in ternary counter [closed]
What is the amortized analysis of increment action in a ternary counter that is initialized to 0?
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Can an algorithm with $\Theta(n^2)$ run time be faster than an algorithm with $\Theta(n\log n)$ run time?
This is a question posted for extra practice (i.e., not for credit):
Can an algorithm with $\Theta(n^2)$ run time be faster than an algorithm with $\Theta(n\log n)$ run time? Explain.
I'm not sure ...
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Splay tree amortized cost analysis
I am looking into the amortized analysis of splay trees and seem to be missing something.
Pretty much every resource uses the accounting method which I believe I grasp.
What confuses me is the part ...
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Best known (state of science) time complexity of an array access problem
Consider an Array $A$ with $n$ values and the following operations:
get(i): Returns the value of $A[i]$
insert (x): Insert the element x into the any free place in A (not necessarily in $A[x]$ or the ...
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Algorithm to optimize redistribution of balls amongst urns [closed]
Here is the question:
Say we have k urns with 1 ball in each urn. At each iteration of the game, I pick one urn and redistribute its contents amongst other urns and each urn can receive at most one ...
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Constant factor of an array
In Elements of Programming Interviews in Python by Aziz, Lee and Prakash, they state on page 41:
Insertion into a full array can be handled by resizing, i.e.,
allocating a new array with ...
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Complexity of many constant time steps with occasional logarithmic steps
I have a data structure that can perform a task $T$ in constant time, $O(1)$. However, every $k$th invocation requires $O(\log{n})$, where $k$ is constant.
Is it possible for this task to ever take ...
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general question amortized cost and worst case
lets say a data structure has operations called insert and delete both of which take O(log(n)) worst case. Suppose the amortized cost of insert is O(log(n)) and the amortized cost of delete is O(1).
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How to do if a potential function Does not work? Amortized analysis
Here is an example taken from CLRS.
q)Consider an ordinary binary min-heap data structure with n elements supporting the instructions INSERT and EXTRACT-MIN in O(lg n) worst-case time. Give a ...
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if binary heap potential function is c*size(binary heap)) then insert will not take O(logn)and extract min will not take O(1) amortized time
So i want to prove that if i choose a potential function for binary heap as any constant*size of the binary heap (n is the number of nodes) then my insert will not have O(logn) amortized cost and ...
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What does $O(\alpha(n))$ amortized time mean?
DELETE(S, i): Delete integer $i$ from the set $S$. if $i \notin S$, there is no effect.
from a set of consectutive integers like $S = \{1,2,3,5,6\}$
Provide a data structure and an algorithm for ...
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Amortized analysis of max-heap
Consider an ordinary binary max-heap data structure with $n$ elements that supports insert and extract-max in $O(\log n)$ worst-case time.
Question: If extract max is $O(1)$ amortized does that ...
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amortized analysis of max heap
Q) Consider an ordinary binary max-heap data structure with n elements that supports insert and extract-max in $O(log(n))$ worst-case time. Give a potential function $\Phi$ such that the amortized ...
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Amortized time complexity for double stack emulated queue
Assume that we have a data type $stack$ which has two operation $push$ and $pop$, both operations' time complexity is $O(1)$ in worst case. The $stack$ also has a property $size$ indicate how many ...
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The validity of the potential function for splay tree
The paper "Self-Adjusting Binary Search Trees" defines (Page 658) the potential function for analyzing the amortized cost of a sequence of $m$ splay operations as the sum of the ranks of all nodes in ...
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Incremental strongly connected components
For a changing directed graph, I would like to maintain information about strongly connected components. The graph operations are incremental: only vertex addition and edge addition. What data ...
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Sequence of operations of Union-Find of length $m$ ($n$ being the number of Make-Set operations) with time complexity in $\Omega(m\log n)$
In Union-Find with link-by-rank but no path compression find a sequence of operations Make-Set, Find, Union of length $m$, containing $n$ Make-Set operations, and with time complexity in $\Omega(m\log ...
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Accounting method vs Potential method for analysing an augmented stack and differences with standard complexity analysis
With reference to chapter 17 of CLRS, (Amortized analysis). I'm trying to understand the differences between the accounting method and the potential method.
Let's start with standard analysis of the ...
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Formal justification of the accounting method and its meaning
I'm reading through CLRS again and I was wondering if there's a formal justification or construction of the accounting method, explaining why it works. For some reason it seems to me that CLRS ...
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The Potential function for Fibonacci heaps
I am trying to get a better understanding of Fibonacci Heaps. I noticed the
following definition for the potential function.
$$ \Phi(F)=|W| +2\cdot \text{# marks}. $$
I do not understand why it is ...
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Data structure with Median, Min, Max, Delete in $O(1)$ amortized-time
I'm looking for a data structure, in which the operations $Init, Median, Min, Max, Delete$ run in $O(1)$ amortized-time, and $Insert$ should run in amortized-time as low as possible.
I tried to work ...
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Why is a sequence of n Push, Pop, Multipop operations O(n²)?
From "Introduction to Algorithms" by Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest, Stein, Third Edition, page 453:
Let us analyze a sequence of $n$ Push, Pop, Multipop operations on an initially empty stack. The ...
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Does the following algorithm has amortized constant time per element?
Consider the following streaming ``algorithms'':
When an element $x$ arrives, flip a fair coin until it shows ``heads''.
Fix a random hash function $h:U\to\{0,1\}^\infty$ (i.e., it maps elements into ...
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Finding potential function for dynamic array
About dynamic array, doubling it's size with every element that is beying its limit:
From what I understand, the number of operations between the $n$th element and the $n+1$th depending on if $n+1$ ...
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Amortized analysis of resizing array implementation of a stack
Here is an excerpt from the book Algorithms, 4th edition by R. Sedgewick and K. Wayne:
Proposition E. In the resizing array implementation of Stack
(Algorithm 1.1), the average number of array ...
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In Amortized Analysis, can we chose how big $n$ is?
Suppose I want to show by contradiction that the amortized cost of a data structure with some operations cannot be less then $\Theta(k)$. I assume for the sake of contradiction that it is possible. ...
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Amortized time of insertion into an Array list
According to Amortized time cost of insertion into an Array list,
A dynamically resizing array list will resize when the number of elements reaches a power of two. So, after n elements inserted, we'...
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amortized analysis
I am trying to find a general solution for the given A,B,C in dynamic arrays. Those veriables presents factors in the following operations :
given :
c_i the size of the array after operation O_i (...
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Amortized time complexity of append on a dynamic array that resizes according to geometric base 1.25?
I'm trying to prove that the amortized time complexity of appending to a dynamic array that resizes in accordance with capacity = $N$ to $N+\lceil{\frac{N}{4}}\rceil$ is $O(1)$. I'm assuming that ...
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Potential function for stack problem
Consider the follow operations on a stack of size at most $k$.
Push - insert element in the stack - actual cost 1
Pop - remove top element from the stack - actual cost 1
Copy - copy whole stack (...
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How to compare an experimental study with amortized times
I have an implementation of a data structure I have to study for a group project (Fibonacci heaps if you're interested).
I'm asked to compare the theoretical results of the operations in amortized ...
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Why do we need "potential” for amortized analysis?
In the current version as of the Wikipedia article “Potential method”, the amortized cost of each operation is defined as the following
$$
T_{\mathrm{amortized}}(o) = T_{\mathrm{actual}}(o) + C \cdot (...
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Find amortized cost for insertion in binary arrays using accounting/potential methods?
Background:
The idea of this data structure is as follows. We will have a collection of arrays, where array $i$ has size $2^i$. Each array is either empty or full, and each is in sorted order. ...
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Accounting method amortized analysis of a sequence of operations (CLRS 17.2-2)
I'm working through CLRS, Chapter 17 on Amortized Analysis. One of the problems I attempted to solve is 17.2-2 (described below), but my answer differs from the one in the instructor's manual, so I ...
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Amortized analysis for dynamic array - how to come up with a potential function?
I learned about amortized analysis and the potential method, I also
leaned an example of a binary counter which I think I understand well.
In the case of the binary counter I understand the choice of ...
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Height and depth of every node in Path Compression
If we have an union-find(disjoint-set) data structure and we are doing an union by rank and path compression for a find operation, how would the depth and height of every node change after the find ...
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Analysis of Union-Find(Disjoint Sets)
I have been trying to learn more about amortized analysis. Recently I came across the Disjoint Sets or Union-Find structures. I am using union by rank and path comparison. The potential of such data ...
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Array counter with mimimum find
I need to implement data strucure such as array, but with the following interface:
GetMin() - Returns the minimum from the array
IncRight(index) - Increases all values from specified index to the end ...
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Why is maximum size of root is 2n + 1 in Splay trees?
In the amortized analysis of Splaying in Dynamic trees, let us consider a splay tree $T$ with $n$ keys and $v$ be a node of $T$. We define $size(v)$ as the number of nodes in the subtree rooted at $...
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Amortized time cost of insertion into an Array list
A dynamically resizing array list will resize when the number of elements reaches a power of two. So, after n elements inserted, we've resized at sizes 1, 2, 4, ... , n. This also means we've copied ...
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Is the potential difference in the two consecutive states of a data structure equal to the credit of the change inducing operation?
I am following CLRS for studying Amortized analysis with potential function and there I came through the following :
Let a data structure go through states : $D_0 $ $D_1$ $D_2$ $ ....$ $D_n$ while ...
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How does the token method of amortized analysis work in this example?
Below is the description of the answer to a question which says the following:
Design a data structure to support two operations for a dynamic multiset S of integers which allows duplicate values.
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Amortized cost of decimal counter
Can somebody tell me what the lowest amortized cost for the increment operation of a decimal counter is?
I can show the costs are O(1) and with max amortized costs of 2 (similar to a binary counter), ...
