Textbooks for References:
[1] CLRS Ch. 15
[2] KT Ch. 6, freely available online (strongly recommended!):
http://www.aw-bc.com/info/kleinberg/assets/downloads/ch6.pdf
[3] Wikipedia: Knapsack (unbounded and 0/1)
[4] Wikipedia: Longest Increasing Subsequence
Please answer time/space complexities for each problem in report.txt.
0. For each of the coding problems below:
(a) Describe an exhaustive solution, and analyze compleixty (might be exponential).
(b) Describe a greedy solution, and analyze complexity.
(c) Show a counterexample to the greedy solution.
(d) Theoretically, is the top-down solution faster, or the bottom-one one faster?
(e) Empirically, which one is faster? (Try some long random lists)
1. Unbounded Knapsack
You have n items, each with weight w_i and value v_i, and has infinite copies.
**All numbers are positive integers.**
What's the best value for a bag of W?
best(3, [(2, 4), (3, 5)])
(5, [0, 1])
the input to the best() function is W and a list of pairs (w_i, v_i).
this output means to take 0 copies of item 1 and 1 copy of item 2.
tie-breaking: *reverse* lexicographical: i.e., [1, 0] is better than [0, 1]:
(i.e., take as much from item 1 as possible, etc.)
best(3, [(1, 5), (1, 5)])
(15, [3, 0])
best(3, [(1, 2), (1, 5)])
(15, [0, 3])
best(3, [(1, 2), (2, 5)])
(7, [1, 1])
best(58, [(5, 9), (9, 18), (6, 12)])
(114, [2, 4, 2])
best(92, [(8, 9), (9, 10), (10, 12), (5, 6)])
(109, [1, 1, 7, 1])
Q: What are the time and space complexities?
filename: knapsack_unbounded.py
2. [WILL BE GRADED]
Bounded Knapsack
You have n items, each with weight w_i and value v_i, and has c_i copies.
**All numbers are positive integers.**
What's the best value for a bag of W?
best(3, [(2, 4, 2), (3, 5, 3)])
(5, [0, 1])
the input to the best() function is W and a list of triples (w_i, v_i, c_i).
tie-breaking: same as in p1:
best(3, [(1, 5, 2), (1, 5, 3)])
(15, [2, 1])
best(3, [(1, 5, 1), (1, 5, 3)])
(15, [1, 2])
best(20, [(1, 10, 6), (3, 15, 4), (2, 10, 3)])
(130, [6, 4, 1])
best(92, [(1, 6, 6), (6, 15, 7), (8, 9, 8), (2, 4, 7), (2, 20, 2)])
(236, [6, 7, 3, 7, 2])
Q: What are the time and space complexities?
filename: knapsack_bounded.py
PLEASE COME UP WITH MORE TESTCASES FOR EACH PROBLEM!
THESE EXISTING CASES ARE WAY TOO TRIVIAL.
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