Adaptive Time Slicing Quantization
Time limit8sMemory limit512 MB
Split a sequence into M frames of at least two elements each to minimize the total squared quantization error under a 2L-level quantizer.
- Level
Medium6 of 10
- Topics
- Dynamic programming, Prefix sum, Math, Implementation
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Problem
Nathan O. Davis is a student in the department of integrated systems. Today he learned digital quantization in a class. Quantization is the process of approximating analog data (for example, electrical pressure) with a finite set of discrete values or integers.
He was given the assignment of writing a program that quantizes a sequence of real numbers, each representing the voltage measured by a voltmeter at one time step. Since implementing an ordinary quantizer was not fun for him, he invented a new quantization method called Adaptive Time Slicing Quantization. This quantization consists of the following steps.
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Divide the given sequence of real numbers into arbitrary M consecutive subsequences called frames. They do not have to be the same size, but each frame must contain at least two elements. The later steps are performed independently for each frame.
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Find the maximum value Vmax and the minimum value Vmin of the frame.
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Define the set of quantized values. The set contains 2L equally spaced values of the interval [Vmin, Vmax], including both boundaries. Here L is a given parameter called the quantization level. In other words, the i-th quantized value qi (1 ≤ i ≤ 2L) is given by
qi = Vmin + (i - 1){(Vmax - Vmin)/(2L - 1)}.
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Round the value of each element of the frame to the closest quantized value.
The key to this method is that we can get a better result by choosing a more appropriate set of frames in step 1. The quality of a quantization is measured by the sum of the squares of the quantization errors over all elements of the sequence: the smaller, the better. The quantization error of an element is the absolute difference between the original and quantized values.
Unfortunately, Nathan caught a bad cold before he started writing the program and is still in bed. So he needs your help. Your task is to implement Adaptive Time Slicing Quantization instead. In your program, the quantization must be performed with the best quality, that is, in such a way that the sum of squared quantization errors is minimized.
Input
The input consists of multiple datasets. Each dataset has two lines. The first line contains three integers N (2 ≤ N ≤ 256), M (1 ≤ M ≤ N/2), and L (1 ≤ L ≤ 8), which represent the number of elements in the sequence, the number of frames, and the quantization level. The second line contains N real numbers in the range [0, 1]. The input is terminated by the dataset with N = M = L = 0, which must not be processed.
Output
For each dataset, output the minimum sum of squared quantization errors on one line. An answer with an absolute error of at most 10-6 is considered correct.