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authorWilliam Carroll <wpcarro@gmail.com>2020-03-19T12·31+0000
committerWilliam Carroll <wpcarro@gmail.com>2020-03-19T12·31+0000
commit380a6a352c6fe0a5fb4859366ae937129a728f8c (patch)
tree5341c524b33c51647f4e46d53a1384c2f8f928db /scratch
parent1d45f146158b0bc678f4204f2c22d481d3ea20a7 (diff)
Solve InterviewCake's graph-coloring problem
Write a function that colors the nodes of a graph such that no two neighbors
share a color.
Diffstat (limited to 'scratch')
-rw-r--r--scratch/deepmind/part_two/graph-coloring.ts232
-rw-r--r--scratch/deepmind/part_two/todo.org2
-rw-r--r--scratch/deepmind/part_two/tsconfig.json7
3 files changed, 240 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scratch/deepmind/part_two/graph-coloring.ts b/scratch/deepmind/part_two/graph-coloring.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..a0b6d5dbae53
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scratch/deepmind/part_two/graph-coloring.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,232 @@
+type Color = string;
+
+interface GraphNode {
+  label: string;
+  neighbors: Set<GraphNode>;
+  color: string;
+}
+
+class GraphNode {
+  constructor(label: string) {
+    this.label = label;
+    this.neighbors = new Set();
+    this.color = null;
+  }
+}
+
+interface Queue<A> {
+  xs: Array<A>;
+}
+
+class Queue<A> {
+  constructor() {
+    this.xs = [];
+  }
+  isEmpty(): boolean {
+    return this.xs.length === 0;
+  }
+  enqueue(x: A): void {
+    this.xs.push(x);
+  }
+  dequeue(): A {
+    return this.xs.shift();
+  }
+}
+
+type Graph = Array<GraphNode>;
+
+// Return a set of all of the colors from the neighbor nodes of `node`.
+function neighborColors(node: GraphNode): Set<Color> {
+  const result: Set<Color> = new Set();
+
+  for (const x of node.neighbors) {
+    if (typeof x.color === 'string') {
+      result.add(x.color);
+    }
+  }
+
+  return result;
+}
+
+// Returns the set difference between sets `xs`, and `ys`.
+function setDifference<A>(xs: Set<A>, ys: Set<A>): Set<A> {
+  const result: Set<A> = new Set();
+
+  for (const x of xs) {
+    if (!ys.has(x)) {
+      result.add(x);
+    }
+  }
+
+  return result;
+}
+
+// Returns an element from the set, `xs`.
+// Throwns an error if `xs` is an empty set.
+function choose<A>(xs: Set<A>): A {
+  if (xs.size === 0) {
+    throw new Error('Cannot choose an element from an empty set.');
+  } else {
+    return xs.values().next().value;
+  }
+}
+
+// Returns true if `node` is present in `node.neighbors`.
+function isCyclic(node: GraphNode): boolean {
+  for (const x of node.neighbors) {
+    if (x === node) {
+      return true;
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+function colorGraph(graph: Graph, colors: Array<Color>): void {
+  const allColors = new Set(colors);
+
+  for (const node of graph) {
+    if (isCyclic(node)) {
+      throw new Error('InterviewCake would like me to invalidate this');
+    }
+    if (typeof node.color !== 'string') {
+      node.color = choose(setDifference(allColors, neighborColors(node)));
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+
+// Tests
+const colors = ['red', 'green', 'blue', 'orange', 'yellow', 'white'];
+
+let graph = [];
+{
+  const nodeA = new GraphNode('A');
+  const nodeB = new GraphNode('B');
+  const nodeC = new GraphNode('C');
+  const nodeD = new GraphNode('D');
+  nodeA.neighbors.add(nodeB);
+  nodeB.neighbors.add(nodeA);
+  nodeB.neighbors.add(nodeC);
+  nodeC.neighbors.add(nodeB);
+  nodeC.neighbors.add(nodeD);
+  nodeD.neighbors.add(nodeC);
+  graph = [nodeA, nodeB, nodeC, nodeD];
+}
+colorGraph(graph, colors);
+assertEqual(validateGraphColoring(graph), true, 'line graph');
+
+{
+  const nodeA = new GraphNode('A');
+  const nodeB = new GraphNode('B');
+  const nodeC = new GraphNode('C');
+  const nodeD = new GraphNode('D');
+  nodeA.neighbors.add(nodeB);
+  nodeB.neighbors.add(nodeA);
+  nodeC.neighbors.add(nodeD);
+  nodeD.neighbors.add(nodeC);
+  graph = [nodeA, nodeB, nodeC, nodeD];
+}
+colorGraph(graph, colors);
+assertEqual(validateGraphColoring(graph), true, 'separate graph');
+
+{
+  const nodeA = new GraphNode('A');
+  const nodeB = new GraphNode('B');
+  const nodeC = new GraphNode('C');
+  nodeA.neighbors.add(nodeB);
+  nodeA.neighbors.add(nodeC);
+  nodeB.neighbors.add(nodeA);
+  nodeB.neighbors.add(nodeC);
+  nodeC.neighbors.add(nodeA);
+  nodeC.neighbors.add(nodeB);
+  graph = [nodeA, nodeB, nodeC];
+}
+colorGraph(graph, colors);
+assertEqual(validateGraphColoring(graph), true, 'triangle graph');
+
+{
+  const nodeA = new GraphNode('A');
+  const nodeB = new GraphNode('B');
+  const nodeC = new GraphNode('C');
+  const nodeD = new GraphNode('D');
+  const nodeE = new GraphNode('E');
+  nodeA.neighbors.add(nodeB);
+  nodeA.neighbors.add(nodeC);
+  nodeB.neighbors.add(nodeA);
+  nodeB.neighbors.add(nodeC);
+  nodeB.neighbors.add(nodeD);
+  nodeB.neighbors.add(nodeE);
+  nodeC.neighbors.add(nodeA);
+  nodeC.neighbors.add(nodeB);
+  nodeC.neighbors.add(nodeD);
+  nodeC.neighbors.add(nodeE);
+  nodeD.neighbors.add(nodeB);
+  nodeD.neighbors.add(nodeC);
+  nodeD.neighbors.add(nodeE);
+  nodeE.neighbors.add(nodeB);
+  nodeE.neighbors.add(nodeC);
+  nodeE.neighbors.add(nodeD);
+  graph = [nodeA, nodeB, nodeC, nodeD, nodeE];
+}
+colorGraph(graph, colors);
+assertEqual(validateGraphColoring(graph), true, 'envelope graph');
+
+{
+  const nodeA = new GraphNode('A');
+  nodeA.neighbors.add(nodeA);
+  graph = [nodeA];
+}
+assertThrows(() => {
+  colorGraph(graph, colors);
+}, 'loop graph');
+
+function validateGraphColoring(graph) {
+
+  const maxDegree = Math.max(...graph.map(node => node.neighbors.size));
+
+  const colorsUsed = new Set();
+
+  graph.forEach(node => {
+    colorsUsed.add(node.color);
+  });
+
+  if (colorsUsed.has(null)) {
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  if (colorsUsed.size > maxDegree + 1) {
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  let badEdges = 0;
+
+  graph.forEach(node => {
+    node.neighbors.forEach(neighbor => {
+      if (neighbor.color === node.color) {
+        badEdges += 1;
+      }
+    });
+  });
+
+  if (badEdges > 0) {
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  return true;
+}
+
+function assertEqual(a, b, desc) {
+  if (a === b) {
+    console.log(`${desc} ... PASS`);
+  } else {
+    console.log(`${desc} ... FAIL: ${a} != ${b}`);
+  }
+}
+
+function assertThrows(func, desc) {
+  try {
+    func();
+    console.log(`${desc} ... FAIL`);
+  } catch (e) {
+    console.log(`${desc} ... PASS`);
+  }
+}
diff --git a/scratch/deepmind/part_two/todo.org b/scratch/deepmind/part_two/todo.org
index a2ce2fb23dff..b767ecb3d4a0 100644
--- a/scratch/deepmind/part_two/todo.org
+++ b/scratch/deepmind/part_two/todo.org
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 ** DONE Balanced Binary Tree
 ** DONE Binary Search Tree Checker
 ** DONE 2nd Largest Item in a Binary Search Tree
-** TODO Graph Coloring
+** DONE Graph Coloring
 ** TODO MeshMessage
 ** TODO Find Repeat, Space Edition BEAST MODE
 * Dynamic programming and recursion
diff --git a/scratch/deepmind/part_two/tsconfig.json b/scratch/deepmind/part_two/tsconfig.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..9b6918ca37d8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scratch/deepmind/part_two/tsconfig.json
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+{
+  "compilerOptions": {
+    "downlevelIteration": true,
+    "target": "es5",
+    "lib": ["es6", "dom"]
+  }
+}