/** * @file * @brief [Matrix Chain Order](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_chain_multiplication) * @details * From Wikipedia: Matrix chain multiplication (or the matrix chain ordering problem) * is an optimization problem concerning the most efficient way to multiply a given sequence of matrices. * The problem is not actually to perform the multiplications, * but merely to decide the sequence of the matrix multiplications involved. * @author [CascadingCascade](https://github.com/CascadingCascade) */ #include /// for assert #include /// for IO operations #include /// for INT_MAX macro #include /// for malloc() and free() /** * @brief Finds the optimal sequence using the classic O(n^3) algorithm. * @param l length of cost array * @param p costs of each matrix * @param s location to store results * @returns number of operations */ int matrixChainOrder(int l,const int *p, int *s) { // mat stores the cost for a chain that starts at i and ends on j (inclusive on both ends) int mat[l][l]; for (int i = 0; i < l; ++i) { mat[i][i] = 0; } // cl denotes the difference between start / end indices, cl + 1 would be chain length. for (int cl = 1; cl < l; ++cl) { for (int i = 0; i < l - cl; ++i) { int j = i + cl; mat[i][j] = INT_MAX; for (int div = i; div < j; ++div) { int q = mat[i][div] + mat[div + 1][j] + p[i] * p[div] * p[j]; if (q < mat[i][j]) { mat[i][j] = q; s[i * l + j] = div; } } } } return mat[0][l - 1]; } /** * @brief Recursively prints the solution * @param l dimension of the solutions array * @param s solutions * @param i starting index * @param j ending index * @returns void */ void printSolution(int l,int *s,int i,int j) { if(i == j) { printf("A%d",i); return } putchar('('); printSolution(l,s,i,s[i * l + j]); printSolution(l,s,s[i * l + j] + 1,j); putchar(')'); } /** * @brief Self-test implementations * @returns void */ static void test() { int sizes[] = {35,15,5,10,20,25}; int len = 6; int *sol = malloc(len * len * sizeof(int)); int r = matrixChainOrder(len,sizes,sol); assert(r == 18625); printf("Result : %d\n",r); printf("Optimal ordering : "); printSolution(len,sol,0,5); free(sol); printf("\n"); } /** * @brief Main function * @returns 0 */ int main() { test(); // run self-test implementations return 0; }