Given a set of points as and a line as ax+by+c = 0. We need to find a point on given line for which sum of distances from given set of points is minimum.
Example:
In above figure optimum location of point of x - y - 3 = 0 line is (2, -1), whose total distance with other points is 20.77, which is minimum obtainable total distance.
If we take one point on given line at infinite distance then total distance cost will be infinite, now when we move this point on line towards given points the total distance cost starts decreasing and after some time, it again starts increasing which reached to infinite on the other infinite end of line so distance cost curve looks like a U-curve and we have to find the bottom value of this U-curve.
As U-curve is not monotonically increasing or decreasing we can’t use binary search for finding bottom most point, here we will use ternary search for finding bottom most point, ternary search skips one third of search space at each iteration, you can read more about ternary search here.
So solution proceeds as follows, we start with low and high initialized as some smallest and largest values respectively, then we start iteration, in each iteration we calculate two mids, mid1 and mid2, which represent 1/3rd and 2/3rd position in search space, we calculate total distance of all points with mid1 and mid2 and update low or high by comparing these distance cost, this iteration continues untill low and high become approximately equal.
C++
// C/C++ program to find optimum location and total cost #include <bits/stdc++.h> using namespace std; #define sq(x) ((x)*(x)) #define EPS 1e-6 #define N 5 // structure defining a point struct point { int x, y; point() {} point(int x, int y) : x(x), y(y) {} }; // structure defining a line of ax + by + c = 0 form struct line { int a, b, c; line(int a, int b, int c) : a(a), b(b), c(c) {} }; // method to get distance of point (x, y) from point p double dist(double x, double y, point p) { return sqrt(sq(x - p.x) + sq(y - p.y)); } /* Utility method to compute total distance all points when choose point on given line has x-cordinate value as X */double compute(point p[], int n, line l, double X) { double res = 0; // calculating Y of choosen point by line equation double Y = -1 * (l.c + l.a*X) / l.b; for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) res += dist(X, Y, p[i]); return res; } // Utility method to find minimum total distance double findOptimumCostUtil(point p[], int n, line l) { double low = -1e6; double high = 1e6; // loop untill difference between low and high // become less than EPS while ((high - low) > EPS) { // mid1 and mid2 are representative x co-ordiantes // of search space double mid1 = low + (high - low) / 3; double mid2 = high - (high - low) / 3; // double dist1 = compute(p, n, l, mid1); double dist2 = compute(p, n, l, mid2); // if mid2 point gives more total distance, // skip third part if (dist1 < dist2) high = mid2; // if mid1 point gives more total distance, // skip first part else low = mid1; } // compute optimum distance cost by sending average // of low and high as X return compute(p, n, l, (low + high) / 2); } // method to find optimum cost double findOptimumCost(int points[N][2], line l) { point p[N]; // converting 2D array input to point array for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) p[i] = point(points[i][0], points[i][1]); return findOptimumCostUtil(p, N, l); } // Driver code to test above method int main() { line l(1, -1, -3); int points[N][2] = {{-3, -2}, {-1, 0}, {-1, 2}, {1, 2}, {3, 4}}; cout << findOptimumCost(points, l) << endl; return 0; } |
Java
// A Java program to find optimum location // and total cost class GFG { static double sq(double x) { return((x) * (x)); } static int EPS = (int) (1e-6) + 1; static int N = 5; // structure defining a point static class point { int x, y; point() {} public point(int x, int y) { this.x = x; this.y = y; } }; // structure defining a line of ax + by + c = 0 form static class line { int a, b, c; public line(int a, int b, int c) { this.a = a; this.b = b; this.c = c; } }; // method to get distance of point (x, y) from point p static double dist(double x, double y, point p) { return Math.sqrt(sq(x - p.x) + sq(y - p.y)); } /* Utility method to compute total distance all points when choose point on given line has x-cordinate value as X */static double compute(point p[], int n, line l, double X) { double res = 0; // calculating Y of choosen point by line equation double Y = -1 * (l.c + l.a * X) / l.b; for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) res += dist(X, Y, p[i]); return res; } // Utility method to find minimum total distance static double findOptimumCostUtil(point p[], int n, line l) { double low = -1e6; double high = 1e6; // loop untill difference between low and high // become less than EPS while ((high - low) > EPS) { // mid1 and mid2 are representative x co-ordiantes // of search space double mid1 = low + (high - low) / 3; double mid2 = high - (high - low) / 3; double dist1 = compute(p, n, l, mid1); double dist2 = compute(p, n, l, mid2); // if mid2 point gives more total distance, // skip third part if (dist1 < dist2) high = mid2; // if mid1 point gives more total distance, // skip first part else low = mid1; } // compute optimum distance cost by sending average // of low and high as X return compute(p, n, l, (low + high) / 2); } // method to find optimum cost static double findOptimumCost(int points[][], line l) { point []p = new point[N]; // converting 2D array input to point array for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) p[i] = new point(points[i][0], points[i][1]); return findOptimumCostUtil(p, N, l); } // Driver Code public static void main(String[] args) { line l = new line(1, -1, -3); int points[][] = {{-3, -2}, {-1, 0}, {-1, 2}, {1, 2}, {3, 4}}; System.out.println(findOptimumCost(points, l)); } } // This code is contributed by Rajput-Ji |
C#
// C# program to find optimum location // and total cost using System; class GFG { static double sq(double x) { return((x) * (x)); } static int EPS = (int) (1e-6) + 1; static int N = 5; // structure defining a point public class point { public int x, y; public point() {} public point(int x, int y) { this.x = x; this.y = y; } }; // structure defining a line // of ax + by + c = 0 form public class line { public int a, b, c; public line(int a, int b, int c) { this.a = a; this.b = b; this.c = c; } }; // method to get distance of // point (x, y) from point p static double dist(double x, double y, point p) { return Math.Sqrt(sq(x - p.x) + sq(y - p.y)); } /* Utility method to compute total distance of all points when choose point on given line has x-cordinate value as X */static double compute(point []p, int n, line l, double X) { double res = 0; // calculating Y of choosen point // by line equation double Y = -1 * (l.c + l.a * X) / l.b; for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) res += dist(X, Y, p[i]); return res; } // Utility method to find minimum total distance static double findOptimumCostUtil(point []p, int n, line l) { double low = -1e6; double high = 1e6; // loop untill difference between // low and high become less than EPS while ((high - low) > EPS) { // mid1 and mid2 are representative // x co-ordiantes of search space double mid1 = low + (high - low) / 3; double mid2 = high - (high - low) / 3; double dist1 = compute(p, n, l, mid1); double dist2 = compute(p, n, l, mid2); // if mid2 point gives more total distance, // skip third part if (dist1 < dist2) high = mid2; // if mid1 point gives more total distance, // skip first part else low = mid1; } // compute optimum distance cost by // sending average of low and high as X return compute(p, n, l, (low + high) / 2); } // method to find optimum cost static double findOptimumCost(int [,]points, line l) { point []p = new point[N]; // converting 2D array input to point array for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) p[i] = new point(points[i, 0], points[i, 1]); return findOptimumCostUtil(p, N, l); } // Driver Code public static void Main(String[] args) { line l = new line(1, -1, -3); int [,]points = {{-3, -2}, {-1, 0}, {-1, 2}, {1, 2}, {3, 4}}; Console.WriteLine(findOptimumCost(points, l)); } } // This code is contributed by 29AjayKumar |
Output:
20.7652
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