package aggregation import ( "fmt" "sort" "github.com/pkg/errors" "github.com/prysmaticlabs/go-bitfield" ) // ErrInvalidMaxCoverProblem is returned when Maximum Coverage problem was initialized incorrectly. var ErrInvalidMaxCoverProblem = errors.New("invalid max_cover problem") // MaxCoverProblem defines Maximum Coverage problem. // // Problem is defined as MaxCover(U, S, k): S', where: // U is a finite set of objects, where |U| = n. Furthermore, let S = {S_1, ..., S_m} be all // subsets of U, that's their union is equal to U. Then, Maximum Coverage is the problem of // finding such a collection S' of subsets from S, where |S'| <= k, and union of all subsets in S' // covering U with maximum cardinality. // // The current implementation captures the original MaxCover problem, and the variant where // additional invariant is enforced: all elements of S' must be disjoint. This comes handy when // we need to aggregate bitsets, and overlaps are not allowed. // // For more details, see: // "Analysis of the Greedy Approach in Problems of Maximum k-Coverage" by Hochbaum and Pathria. // https://hochbaum.ieor.berkeley.edu/html/pub/HPathria-max-k-coverage-greedy.pdf type MaxCoverProblem struct { Candidates MaxCoverCandidates } // MaxCoverCandidate represents a candidate set to be used in aggregation. type MaxCoverCandidate struct { key int bits *bitfield.Bitlist score uint64 processed bool } // MaxCoverCandidates is defined to allow group operations (filtering, sorting) on all candidates. type MaxCoverCandidates []*MaxCoverCandidate // NewMaxCoverCandidate returns initialized candidate. func NewMaxCoverCandidate(key int, bits *bitfield.Bitlist) *MaxCoverCandidate { return &MaxCoverCandidate{ key: key, bits: bits, } } // Cover calculates solution to Maximum k-Cover problem in O(knm), where // n is number of candidates and m is a length of bitlist in each candidate. func (mc *MaxCoverProblem) Cover(k int, allowOverlaps bool, allowDuplicates bool) (*Aggregation, error) { if len(mc.Candidates) == 0 { return nil, errors.Wrap(ErrInvalidMaxCoverProblem, "cannot calculate set coverage") } if len(mc.Candidates) < k { k = len(mc.Candidates) } if err := mc.Candidates.validate(); err != nil { return nil, err } if !allowDuplicates { mc.Candidates.dedup(allowOverlaps) } solution := &Aggregation{ Coverage: bitfield.NewBitlist(mc.Candidates[0].bits.Len()), Keys: make([]int, 0, k), } remainingBits := mc.Candidates.union() if remainingBits == nil { return nil, errors.Wrap(ErrInvalidMaxCoverProblem, "empty bitlists") } for len(solution.Keys) < k && len(mc.Candidates) > 0 { // Score candidates against remaining bits. // Filter out processed and overlapping (when disallowed). // Sort by score in a descending order. mc.Candidates.score(remainingBits).filter(solution.Coverage, allowOverlaps).sort() for _, candidate := range mc.Candidates { if len(solution.Keys) >= k { break } if !candidate.processed { if !allowOverlaps && solution.Coverage.Overlaps(*candidate.bits) { // Overlapping candidates violate non-intersection invariant. candidate.processed = true continue } solution.Coverage = solution.Coverage.Or(*candidate.bits) solution.Keys = append(solution.Keys, candidate.key) remainingBits = remainingBits.And(candidate.bits.Not()) candidate.processed = true break } } } return solution, nil } // score updates scores of candidates, taking into account the uncovered elements only. func (cl *MaxCoverCandidates) score(uncovered bitfield.Bitlist) *MaxCoverCandidates { for i := 0; i < len(*cl); i++ { (*cl)[i].score = (*cl)[i].bits.And(uncovered).Count() } return cl } // filter removes processed, overlapping and zero-score candidates. func (cl *MaxCoverCandidates) filter(covered bitfield.Bitlist, allowOverlaps bool) *MaxCoverCandidates { overlaps := func(e bitfield.Bitlist) bool { return !allowOverlaps && covered.Len() == e.Len() && covered.Overlaps(e) } cur, end := 0, len(*cl) for cur < end { e := *(*cl)[cur] if e.processed || overlaps(*e.bits) || e.score == 0 { (*cl)[cur] = (*cl)[end-1] end-- continue } cur++ } *cl = (*cl)[:end] return cl } // sort orders candidates by their score, starting from the candidate with the highest score. func (cl *MaxCoverCandidates) sort() *MaxCoverCandidates { sort.Slice(*cl, func(i, j int) bool { if (*cl)[i].score == (*cl)[j].score { return (*cl)[i].key < (*cl)[j].key } return (*cl)[i].score > (*cl)[j].score }) return cl } // union merges all candidate bitlists using logical OR operator. func (cl *MaxCoverCandidates) union() bitfield.Bitlist { if len(*cl) == 0 { return nil } if (*cl)[0].bits == nil || (*cl)[0].bits.Len() == 0 { return nil } ret := bitfield.NewBitlist((*cl)[0].bits.Len()) for i := 0; i < len(*cl); i++ { if *(*cl)[i].bits != nil { ret = ret.Or(*(*cl)[i].bits) } } return ret } // dedup removes duplicate candidates (ones with the same bits set on). func (cl *MaxCoverCandidates) dedup(allowOverlaps bool) *MaxCoverCandidates { if len(*cl) < 2 { return cl } uncoveredBits := cl.union() if uncoveredBits == nil { return cl } cl.score(uncoveredBits).sort() for i := 1; i < len(*cl); i++ { nonOverlappingBits := (*cl)[i-1].bits.Xor(*(*cl)[i].bits) if (*cl)[i-1].score == (*cl)[i].score && nonOverlappingBits.Count() == 0 { (*cl)[i-1].processed = true } } return cl.filter(bitfield.NewBitlist((*cl)[0].bits.Len()), allowOverlaps) } // validate checks candidates for validity (equal bitlength etc). func (cl *MaxCoverCandidates) validate() error { if len(*cl) == 0 { return errors.Wrap(ErrInvalidMaxCoverProblem, "empty list of candidates") } if (*cl)[0].bits == nil || (*cl)[0].bits.Len() == 0 { return errors.Wrap(ErrInvalidMaxCoverProblem, "bitlist cannot be nil or empty") } bitlistLen := (*cl)[0].bits.Len() for i := 1; i < len(*cl); i++ { if (*cl)[i].bits == nil || (*cl)[i].bits.Len() == 0 { return errors.Wrap(ErrInvalidMaxCoverProblem, "bitlist cannot be nil or empty") } if bitlistLen != (*cl)[i].bits.Len() { return errors.Wrap(ErrInvalidMaxCoverProblem, "bitlists of different length") } } return nil } // String provides string representation of a candidate. func (c *MaxCoverCandidate) String() string { return fmt.Sprintf("{%v, %#b, s%d, %t}", c.key, c.bits, c.score, c.processed) }