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Chapter 6, exercise 1: simple program to play with CA and CADrawer.
author | Brian Neal <bgneal@gmail.com> |
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date | Fri, 11 Jan 2013 21:18:45 -0600 |
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"""Section 4.2, exercise 2. "The following implementation of a BFS contains two performance errors. What are they? What is the actual order of growth for this algorithm? def bfs(top_node, visit): 'Breadth-first search on a graph, starting at top_node.' visited = set() queue = [top_node] while len(queue): curr_node = queue.pop(0) # Dequeue visit(curr_node) # Visit the node visited.add(curr_node) # Enqueue non-visited and non-enqueued children queue.extend(c for c in curr_node.children if c not in visited and c not in queue) Test this code with a range of graph sizes and check your analysis. Then use a FIFO implementation to fix the errors and confirm that your algorithm is linear." ---- I think the 2 performance errors are: 1) Using a list as the queue, and popping element 0. 2) Doing a linear search to see if the child node is already in the queue. To characterize this bfs, I'll inherit from my Graph class and add a flawed_bfs() method which implements the above. I'll then plot both the flawed_bfs and the bfs method I wrote earlier. This program tests complete graphs. The flawed_bfs is plotted along with a curve of slope 3, which fits well, and shows that this search is O(|V|^3). Next, the bfs method is plotted with a curve of slope 2, which fits well. This shows that bfs is quadratic, or O(|V|^2), on a complete graph, which is what we expect. """ import timeit import matplotlib.pyplot as pyplot from Graph import Graph, Vertex class FlawedGraph(Graph): def flawed_bfs(self, start, visit=None): """A breadth-first search with performance problems.""" visited = set() queue = [start] while len(queue): curr_node = queue.pop(0) if visit: visit(curr_node) visited.add(curr_node) queue.extend(c for c in self.out_vertices(curr_node) if c not in visited and c not in queue) GRAPH = None METHOD = None V = None def test_graph_search(): if METHOD == 'flawed_bfs': GRAPH.flawed_bfs(V) else: GRAPH.bfs(V) def test_func(): elapsed = timeit.timeit('test_graph_search()', setup='from __main__ import test_graph_search', number=1) return elapsed def test(method): """Tests the given function with a range of values for n. Returns a list of ns and a list of run times. """ global GRAPH, METHOD, V METHOD = method factor = 10 # test (f) over a range of values for (n) ns = [] ts = [] for i in range(10, 50): n = factor * i GRAPH = FlawedGraph() V = None # Add n vertices and connect them for i in range(n): v = Vertex() if not V: V = v GRAPH.add_vertex(v) GRAPH.add_all_edges() # make g a complete graph t = test_func() print n, t ns.append(n) ts.append(t) return ns, ts def plot(ns, ts, label, color='blue', exp=1.0): """Plots data and a fitted curve. ns: sequence of n (problem size) ts: sequence of t (run time) label: string label for the data curve color: string color for the data curve exp: exponent (slope) for the fitted curve """ tfit = fit(ns, ts, exp) pyplot.plot(ns, tfit, color='0.7', linewidth=2, linestyle='dashed') pyplot.plot(ns, ts, label=label, color=color, linewidth=3) def fit(ns, ts, exp=1.0, index=-1): """Fits a curve with the given exponent. Use the given index as a reference point, and scale all other points accordingly. """ nref = ns[index] tref = ts[index] tfit = [] for n in ns: ratio = float(n) / nref t = ratio**exp * tref tfit.append(t) return tfit def make_fig(funcs): pyplot.clf() pyplot.xscale('log') pyplot.yscale('log') pyplot.title('') pyplot.xlabel('n') pyplot.ylabel('run time (s)') colors = ['red', 'green'] for func, color in zip(funcs, colors): data = test(func) exp = 3.0 if func == 'flawed_bfs' else 2.0 plot(*data, label=func, color=color, exp=exp) pyplot.legend(loc=4) pyplot.show() def main(script): make_fig(['flawed_bfs', 'bfs']) if __name__ == '__main__': import sys main(*sys.argv)