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# %load ../../preconfig.py
%matplotlib inline
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import seaborn as sns
plt.rcParams['axes.grid'] = False

from __future__ import division

#import numpy as np
#import pandas as pd
#import itertools

import logging
logger = logging.getLogger()

19 Fibonacci Heaps

dual purpose:

  1. support a set of operations of 'mergeable heap'.

  2. its several Fibonacci-heap operations run in constant amortized time.


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plt.figure(figsize=(15,10))
plt.imshow(plt.imread('./res/fig19_1.png'))


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In theory:
Fibonacci heaps are especially desiable when the number of EXTRAC-MIN and DELETE operations is small relative to the number of other operations performed.

In practice:
Ordinary binary heaps are more preferred because of the constant factors and programing complexity of Fibonacci heaps.

19.1 Structure of Fibonacci heaps

A Fibonacci heap is a collection of rooted trees that are min-heap ordered(the key of a node is greater than or equal to the key of its parent).


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plt.figure(figsize=(15,10))
plt.imshow(plt.imread('./res/fig19_2.png'))


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Links:

  1. each node $x$ contains a pointer $x.p$ to its parent and a pointer $x.child$ to any one of its children.

  2. child list of $x$: The children of $x$ are linked together in a circular, doubly linked list. Each child $y$ in a child list has pointers $y.left$ and $y.right$.
    Why doubly linked lists?

    • Insert or remove diretcly.
    • Concatenate easily.

Attributes:

  1. For each node $x$:

    • $x.degree$: the number of children in the child list of node $x$.
    • $x.mark$: whether node $x$ has lost a child since the last time $x$ was made the child of another node. (DECRESE-KEY operation).
  2. For heap $H$:

    • $H.min$: root pointer.
    • $H.n$: the number of nodes currently in $H$.

Potential function

$$\phi (H) = t(H) + 2 m(H)$$

where $t(H)$ is the number of trees in the root list and $m(H)$ is the number of marked nodes.

Maximum degree

An upper bound $D(n)$ on the maximum degree of any node in an $n$-node Fibonacci heap: $D(n) \leq \lfloor \lg n \rfloor$.

19.2 Mergeable-heap operations

core: delay work as long as possible.

Creating a new Fibonacci heap

allocates and returns the Fibonacci heap object $H$, where $H.n = 0$ and $H.min = NIL$.

Inserting a node

insert $x$ into $H$'s root list


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plt.figure()
plt.imshow(plt.imread('./res/fig19_3a.png'))
plt.figure()
plt.imshow(plt.imread('./res/fig19_3.png'))


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Finding the minimum node

given by the pointer $H.min$

Uniting two Fibonacci heaps

concatenates the root lists of $H_1$ and $H_2$ and then determines the new minimum node.


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Extracting the minimum node

$O(\lg n)$

extracte the minimum node, and also consolidate trees in the root list finally occurs.


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consolidating

consolidating the root list consists of repeatedly excuting the following steps until every root in the root list has a distince degree values:

  1. Find two roots $x$ and $y$ in the root list with the same degree. Let $x.key \leq y.key$.

  2. Link $y$ to $x$: remove $y$ from the root list, and make $y$ a child of $x$ by calling the FIB-HEAP-LINK procedure.


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plt.figure(figsize=(20,15))
plt.subplot(2,1,1)
plt.imshow(plt.imread('./res/fig19_4a.png'))
plt.subplot(2,1,2)
plt.imshow(plt.imread('./res/fig19_4b.png'))


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