Hello,
CHEFFIB problem in the recent DEC17 challenge can be solved using centroid decomposition but I am unable to understand what should be stored in the centroid so that update and query both can be done in log(n) time. Please share some insight over this.
TIA.
I only got log^2(n) per query by storing a fenwick tree at each node. Unfortunately, it didn’t pass even with c++.
I also have the same doubt and waiting for an official or unofficial editorial.
any idea when the official editorials show up?
Can this be solved using HLD?
I was thinking of updating only the chain heads as we move up,but not sure.
Plz if any1 could tell…
Yeah same case here too.
here’s a solution of O(log^2(n)) per query that passed by @spj_29
https://www.codechef.com/viewsolution/16467008
At each node, fenwick tree was built on 1 to max(distance) possible for elements in the subtree of decomposed tree (distance wrt original tree). At level 0, the max distance can be n , n/2…1, hence the space complexity is o(nlogn).
This makes the precomputation quite fast.
I even tried the same thing done by @spj_29 but got TLE. I think O(n(lgn^2)) require high optimizations.
I tried O(nlog^2n preprocessing for lca too in some of my earlier submissions I can’t find it though). But I think there is a better and faster solution to this. Maybe nlogn*(log(logn)^2).