CS170 Project DTH

Author: Yao Shao, Zhiyi Li, Huben Liu

Contact: yshao998@gmail.com

Reminder

• Please see the Problem Spec and Report for details.
• Please run on Windows since we only test it on Win10 and can't promise it works correctly on other OS.
• Don't change the names of the folders and files unless you know exactly what will happen.
• We use python 3.7.4 and stdc++11, please make sure that your version is at least this. You may need to use python3 instead of python in the terminal if you have installed multiple versions of python.
• We have write a automatic script in python which will generate the output in .json format. The result will be in the utils folder.
• Since we use a randomized algorithm, you may not get the exactly same answer as our submission. To get an output with similar quality, please repeate calling auto.py for about 15 times with approximately 30 hours in total.
• If you have any problems, please contact us by yshao998@gmail.com.

Usage: A simple way

1. Before running, please install the dependencies by

   cd <path to the utils folder>
   pip3 install -r requirements.txt 

2. in terminal

   python first_generate.py ../inputs ../outputs_best

3. In terminal (repeat for about 15 times)

   python auto.py ../inputs ../outputs_new
   

   This script will firstly generate a new set of output files and store them in the outputs_new folder. Then calculate the cost of each output and save them in the cost_new.log file. After that, we will compare the new cost with the current cost, replace the current output with the new one if the cost goes down. Finally, compress the best outputs to get the .json file.

Alternative way

In case that you have any problem running auto.py, we also provide an alternative way though it is much more complex since you need to repeat this procedure for many times.

1. Before running, please install the dependencies by

   cd <path to the utils folder>
    pip3 install -r requirements.txt

2. in terminal

   python first_generate.py ../inputs ../outputs_best

3. create a folder named outputs_new in the root directory. Then in the alg folder, run project_call.exe

4. In terminal, change the working directory to utils

   cd <path to the utils folder>
   

5. Calculate the cost

   python cost.py ../inputs ../outputs_new ../cost_new.log

6. Update the outputs

   python find_best_partial.py ../outputs_new ../cost_new.log

7. Compress the outputs

   python compress_output.py ../outputs_best/