Questions related to combinatorics and discrete mathematical structures
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Number of ways to choose same number of elements from two different sets
Given two sets of elements S and R, with p elements and q elements respectively. 1 <= p,q <= n. Now, the number of ways to choose same number of elements from set S and R is $$\sum_{i=0}^{\min(p,...
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Hiring problem from CLRS
Hiring problem is discussed in section 5.1 and 5.2 of the CLRS and I'm referring this for exercise solutions.
However, for Exercise question 5.2-2 my solution deviates from the one given in the ...
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A problem on constrained combinatorics
Not sure if this is a proper place, but I really don't know where else to ask. I'm craving for an algorithm generating certain sequences of numbers (the problem comes from physics).
I'm looking for ...
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A combinatorial optimization problem with restrictions
Assume $A$ is an $n \times m $ matrix. How can we select $n$ elements, one element from each row, such that their sum is minimized, subject to the following constraint: we can choose the elements from ...
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Algorithm to organize a tournament where the team componentes change each round
So, I was tasked with creating an app that generates the schedule of a doubles tennis tournament (i.e., teams of two) in a way that, by the end of it, everyone would have played against the rest of ...
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Sum of unique elements in all sub-arrays of an array
Given an array $A$, sum the number of unique elements for each sub-array of $A$. If $A = \{1, 2, 1, 3\}$ the desired sum is $18$.
Subarrays:
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Maximizing benefits of performed tasks by purchasing less reusable devices
Suppose to accomplish a task $t_i$ from a finite task set $T=\{t_1, \ldots, t_n\}$, we need a set of reusable devices $D(t_i) = \{d_1, \ldots, d_m \}$ from a finite device set ${\cal D}$ such that
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Different iterations of regular expressions
A four-part question dealing with formal languages and regular expressions:
How many basic regular expressions (using only the rules 0/ϵ, 1/∅, *, +, and •) are there to match a given string?
How ...
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No. of subsets whose element multiply to give a square number
I have been given an array whose elements lie between [1,70] and the size of array [1,10^5].
I have to find the total number of subsets whose all elements multiply to give a perfect square number.
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Maximal number of rounds we can do distributing 64 diners on 8 groups in different ways if they can't meet each other more than once?
N=64 hungry diners come to a buffet.
We sit them at 8 different (s=8 people at each table) tables so that they get to know each other while they eat.
After a while we distribute them over the tables ...
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Count number of the ways to fill a N-lengthed binary string
From the problem, count the number of ways to fill a binary string of length $N$ with at least one $1$'s consecutive sequence of length $K$ and other $1$'s consecutive sequences have length no more ...
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Maximum number of non-overlapping rectangles where each contains a minimum number of points
Given n points and 0 < p < n, find the maximum number k of rectangles such that each rectangle contains at least p points and no two rectangles overlap. Each point is distinct from every other ...
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Cardinality of the set of algorithms
Someone in a discussion brought up that (he reckons) there can be at least continuum number of strategies to approach a specific problem. The specific problem was trading strategies (not algorithms ...
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How to generate a binary string so to minimize weighted bitwise distance?
I've got an array of weights, for example
[1, 0, 3, 5]
The distance between two strings is defined as a sum of weights for different bits, like this:
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Primary/Secondary On Call Rotations
I'm trying to setup a primary and secondary on call schedule with 6 people.
I'm trying to schedule people to be on call, so that they will be paired with everyone and they have the longest "break" ...
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Inexact cover, or cover with gaps
Dancing Links: wikipedia article, research paper is an implementation of algorithm X for exact cover problem.
In the Knuth's research papaer, linked above it is shown how Polymino problem (that is ...
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Integer Problem Solving with two boolean selection variables
I am trying to solve a two dimensional combinatorial problem.
Hereis my input space {{RA1,RA2},{RB1,RB2},{RC1,RC2}} and i have to choose two out of three elements{A,B,C} and one out of two possible ...
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Making 5-tuples out of their respective 4-tuples
Let's take integer numbers from [1..36]. We can generate 376992 different (order is not important) five-number-combinations like (1,3,5,7,12), etc. Such five-number-combinations always have five ...
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Given n numbers How to find out a set of numbers whose sum equal to a certain given number
I am given an list of numbers and A number-s. I need to find out the collection(s) of numbers from the list of numbers whose sum corresponds to the given number s.
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Finding the maximum possible size of S, where S is a set of pairwise-disjoint subsets of the list, and every element of S sums to k
Say I had a list of numbers in the range of 1-20 for example: [5, 16, 17, 3, 2, 14, 4, 9, 11, 19], and an integer k (let's say k = 40)
How would I find the maximum possible size of S, where S is a ...
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Which algorithm can calculate an optimal allocation of students to projects?
I am trying to find an algorithm which calculates an optimal and stable allocation of $n$ students to $m$ projects, where each student strictly ranks all projects by preference. The available projects ...
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How many different strongly connected graphs can be created given n nodes?
Given some fixed number of nodes $n$, which we will number 1 to $n$ in order to tell them apart, how many different strongly connected graphs can be created? Multiple edges with the same starting and ...
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How to model and solve this problem?
I have a matrix $P \in M_n(\mathbb N)$, where
$$ P =
\begin{bmatrix}
0 & P_{12} & \ldots & P_{1n}\\
P_{21} & 0 & \ldots & P_{2n}\\
\vdots & \vdots & \ddots &...
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How to find splitting point in [0,1] to maximize sum of sign function?
Given two $n$-number arrays $a_1, a_2, \ldots,a_n \in [0,1] $ and $b_1, b_2, \ldots,b_n \in [0,1] $. We would like to find the real number $x^{*} \in (0,1)$ s.t:
$x^{*} =\arg\max_{x} \sum_{i=1}^n \...
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How many sets of LR(0) items exist in this grammar? (question from the dragon book)
The grammar:
\begin{align}
S&\rightarrow A_ib_i &\text{for }1\le i\le n\\
A_i&\rightarrow a_jA_i\mid a_j &\text{for }1\le i,j\le n\text{ and } i\neq j
\end{align}
The answer is $2^n +...
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Centre, diameter, and radius of graph
I have been thinking a lot on some questions related to centres, diameter ($D$), and radius ($R$) of an undirected connected graph, but couldn't find anywhere the answers, so am posting here.
Ques1. ...
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Infer a list of numbers from observations of subranges
There's a list of (unknown) integers, in [0...20]. They are generated from a uniform distribution via a RNG.
The input is observations of the form:
in a subrange <...
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Minimum number of moves required to transfer items from source bins to target bins?
I have a set of source bins, each with some number of items, and a set of target bins. I want to move all of the items from the source bins to the target bins, using the minimum number of moves. ...
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Computational complexity of Bell numbers
I've been recently dealing with a problem which, when worst case is considered, results in exploration of $B_{n}$ options, where $B_{n}$ is th $n^{th}$ Bell number. I am trying to rigorously prove, ...
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Grouping elements optimally other than NP-hard approach
Given a number $N$, I need to make a new array $B$ of size $n$ (index-1 based) such that the product of $B[i]-(i-1)$ for $1 \le i \le n$ is equal to $N$ and $B[n]$ is minimum and $B[i] \ge B[i-1]$ and ...
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Subset sum into a consecutive range vs. standard subset sum
The following problems live in integer domain.
I want to find a subset of $\{x_0, x_1, \ldots, x_{n-1}\}$ such that the subset's elements sum to any number in a prescribed interval $[X,X+k]$, $k\geq ...
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How to correctly count subsets using dynamic programming
I'm trying to solve this problem: UVa 1734 - Numbered Cards.
You have $N$ cards and each has an unique number between $1$ and $N$ written on it. In how many ways can you select a non-empty subset ...
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Find the maximizing row-column matches in a matrix
I have a set of R x C matrices similar to the following (can be much longer):
C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6
R1 0.32 0.81 NA NA NA NA
R2 0.90 -0.44 0.95 ...
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Optimise 1D cutting stock problem - maximum waste that can be removed with n cuts
The problem statement can be made as follows. There is a 1D length of raw material that contains "net" and "waste" intervals. Using 2n cuts, sections of material can be removed so that less waste has ...
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Efficient alternatives to inclusion-exclusion
Say you've got a number of sets $S_1,...,S_n$ given and are supposed to calculate $\,\,\displaystyle\big|\bigcup_{i=1}^n S_i\big|$ .
The basic approach probably would be to use the classic inclusion-...
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Number of words in $\{pi,po\}^*$ of length at most 9
I have a language $L^*$ for $L = \{pi,po\}$ (I think pi counts as one letter and po also as one letter otherwise a max length of 9 is not possible).
The question is how many words I can make with $L^*...
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Group tuples to satisfy constraints
This is a problem that involves matching students with various skills into groups so that there are as many groups as possible while ensuring that each group has certain skills present. I've reduced ...
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sub-optimal but fast partition generation
I have a set of N integers that I want to partition into m subsets. I want these subsets to be well-balanced wrt some criterion say that minimize the max difference between the size of all subsets. ...
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Why is the number of digits (bits) in the binary representation of a positive integer $n$ is the integral part of $1 + \log_2 n$?
I've stumbled on this definition on Wikipedia, and I can't figure out why.
I could probably start the demonstration by saying that, with $n$ bits, you can create $2^n$ possible different numbers, so $...
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Multi-trip travel salesman problem
Given a graph $G$, I want to find a shortest tour visiting each vertex. Different to the classical formulation of TSP, my tour needs to be divided into several subtours, each upper-bounded by a ...
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Minimum capacity cut reduction from digraph with two edge weight sets
Given a digraph $G$ and $f, g : E(G) \mapsto \mathbb{R}$, how would you find a cut $(X,\bar{X})$ with $s \in X$ and $t \in \bar{X}$ such that $\sum_{e \in \delta^+(X)}{f(e)} - \sum_{e \in \delta^-(X)}{...
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Knapsack problem with diminishing prices
I wonder if the knapsack problem with diminishing prices is already studied?
The problem is similar to the regular knapsack problem, except the price of each item is a decreasing function of the total ...
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Finding the maximum of a random forest
If we have some collection of decision trees with single-variable splits and a constant value at each leaf node, the average over all trees gives some function from $\mathbb{R}^n \to \mathbb{R}$. Is ...
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Constrained selection of a random sample from a set of items with multiple attributes
Suppose I have a collection of N items, each of which has A different attributes, a1, a2, ..., aA. Attribute ai can take on Vi different possible (discrete) values, distributed across the population ...
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Fast computation of k-fibonacci numbers
Let's define the sequence of $k$-Fibonacci numbers as
$$ F_i = 2^i, ~~ 0 \leq i \leq k-1 $$
$$ F_i = F_{i-1} + \dots + F_{i-k}, ~~ i \geq k $$
I have a problem which requires to compute $n$-th $k$-...
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Counting restricted partitions
Given positive intgers $N$ and $S$ i need to count in how many ways $N$ can be decomposed as sum of $S$ positive integers not greater than $\frac{N}{2}$:
$$ N = x_1 + \dots + x_S, ~~~~ 0 \leq x_i \leq ...
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Permutation of multiple groups of different sizes
While working on my research for my master thesis I have stumbled upon the following problem:
Given $N$ groups of different sizes, create all the possible combinations $p$ such that:
$p = \{e_{0,j_0}...
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Assign team members to groups to maximize outcome
Team A has 2 Spots
Team B has 1 Spot
Player 1: 10 Units when on team A, Can't work on team B
Player 2: 8 Units when on team A, Can't work on team B
Player 3: 9 Units when on team A, 2 Units when ...
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Portfolio allocation with a few twists
A similar question has been asked here, but this one is more complicated and has more constraints.
I'm trying to find an algorithm to solve the following (real-life) problem:
A customer has $M$ ...
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Find the best set of triples of objects, using each object at max one time
I stumbled upon an interesting problem and I'm stuck with it, since I can't find parallels to other problems or algorithms to solve it.
We have a set of objects $O = \{a,b,c,...,z\}$, objects can ...
