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#ifndef OR_TOOLS_SAT_ALL_DIFFERENT_H_
#define OR_TOOLS_SAT_ALL_DIFFERENT_H_
 
#include <cstdint>
#include <functional>
#include <vector>
 
#include "absl/log/check.h"
#include "absl/types/span.h"
#include "ortools/base/logging.h"
#include "ortools/sat/integer.h"
#include "ortools/sat/integer_base.h"
#include "ortools/sat/model.h"
#include "ortools/sat/sat_base.h"
#include "ortools/util/strong_integers.h"
 
namespace operations_research {
namespace sat {
 
// Enforces that the given tuple of variables takes different values. This fully
// encodes all the variables and simply enforces a <= 1 constraint on each
// possible values.
std::function<void(Model*)> AllDifferentBinary(
    absl::Span<const IntegerVariable> vars);
 
// Enforces that the given tuple of variables takes different values.
// Same as AllDifferentBinary() but use a different propagator that only enforce
// the so called "bound consistency" on the variable domains.
//
// Compared to AllDifferentBinary() this doesn't require fully encoding the
// variables and it is also quite fast. Note that the propagation is different,
// this will not remove already taken values from inside a domain, but it will
// propagates more the domain bounds.
std::function<void(Model*)> AllDifferentOnBounds(
    absl::Span<const IntegerVariable> vars);
std::function<void(Model*)> AllDifferentOnBounds(
    const std::vector<AffineExpression>& expressions);
 
// This constraint forces all variables to take different values. This is meant
// to be used as a complement to an alldifferent decomposition like
// AllDifferentBinary(): DO NOT USE WITHOUT ONE. Doing the filtering that the
// decomposition can do with an appropriate algorithm should be cheaper and
// yield more accurate explanations.
//
// It uses the matching algorithm described in Regin at AAAI1994:
// "A filtering algorithm for constraints of difference in CSPs".
//
// This will fully encode variables.
std::function<void(Model*)> AllDifferentAC(
    absl::Span<const IntegerVariable> variables);
 
// Implementation of AllDifferentAC().
class AllDifferentConstraint : PropagatorInterface {
 public:
  AllDifferentConstraint(absl::Span<const IntegerVariable> variables,
                         Model* model);
 
  // In a circuit, the successor of all node must be "different".
  // Thus this propagator can also be used in this context.
  AllDifferentConstraint(int num_nodes, absl::Span<const int> tails,
                         absl::Span<const int> heads,
                         absl::Span<const Literal> literals, Model* model);
 
  bool Propagate() final;
  void RegisterWith(GenericLiteralWatcher* watcher);
 
 private:
  // MakeAugmentingPath() is a step in Ford-Fulkerson's augmenting path
  // algorithm. It changes its current internal state (see vectors below)
  // to assign a value to the start vertex using an augmenting path.
  // If it is not possible, it keeps variable_to_value_[start] to -1 and returns
  // false, otherwise it modifies the current assignment and returns true.
  // It uses value/variable_visited to mark the nodes it visits during its
  // search: one can use this information to generate an explanation of failure,
  // or manipulate it to create what-if scenarios without modifying successor_.
  bool MakeAugmentingPath(int start);
 
  // This caches all literals of the fully encoded variables.
  // Values of a given variable are 0-indexed using offsets variable_min_value_,
  // the set of all values is globally offset using offset min_all_values_.
  // TODO(user): compare this encoding to a sparser hash_map encoding.
  const int num_variables_;
  const std::vector<IntegerVariable> variables_;
 
  // Note that we remap all value into [0, num_values_) in a "dense" way.
  std::vector<std::vector<std::pair<int, Literal>>>
      variable_to_possible_values_;
  int64_t num_values_;
 
  // Internal state of MakeAugmentingPath().
  // value_to_variable_ and variable_to_value_ represent the current assignment;
  // -1 means not assigned. Otherwise,
  // variable_to_value_[var] = value <=> value_to_variable_[value] = var.
  CompactVectorVector<int> successor_;
  std::vector<bool> value_visited_;
  std::vector<bool> variable_visited_;
  std::vector<int> value_to_variable_;
  std::vector<int> variable_to_value_;
  std::vector<int> prev_matching_;
  std::vector<int> visiting_;
  std::vector<int> variable_visited_from_;
 
  // Internal state of ComputeSCCs().
  // Variable nodes are indexed by [0, num_variables_),
  // value nodes by [num_variables_, num_variables_ + num_all_values_),
  // and a dummy node with index num_variables_ + num_all_values_ is added.
  // The graph passed to ComputeSCCs() is the residual of the possible graph
  // by the current matching, i.e. its arcs are:
  // _ (var, val) if val \in dom(var) and var not matched to val,
  // _ (val, var) if var matched to val,
  // _ (val, dummy) if val not matched to any variable,
  // _ (dummy, var) for all variables.
  // In the original paper, forbidden arcs are identified by detecting that they
  // are not in any alternating cycle or alternating path starting at a
  // free vertex. Adding the dummy node allows to factor the alternating path
  // part in the alternating cycle, and filter with only the SCC decomposition.
  // When num_variables_ == num_all_values_, the dummy node is useless,
  // we add it anyway to simplify the code.
  CompactVectorVector<int> residual_graph_successors_;
  std::vector<int> component_number_;
 
  Trail* trail_;
  IntegerTrail* integer_trail_;
};
 
// Implements the all different bound consistent propagator with explanation.
// That is, given n affine expressions that must take different values, this
// propagates the bounds of each expression as much as possible. The key is to
// detect the so called Hall interval which are interval of size k that contains
// the domain of k expressinos. Because all the variables must take different
// values, we can deduce that the domain of the other variables cannot contains
// such Hall interval.
//
// We use a "fast" O(n log n) algorithm.
//
// TODO(user): It might be difficult to find something faster than what is
// implemented here. Some related reference:
// https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~vanbeek/Publications/ijcai03_TR.pdf
class AllDifferentBoundsPropagator : public PropagatorInterface {
 public:
  AllDifferentBoundsPropagator(absl::Span<const AffineExpression> expressions,
                               IntegerTrail* integer_trail);
 
  // This type is neither copyable nor movable.
  AllDifferentBoundsPropagator(const AllDifferentBoundsPropagator&) = delete;
  AllDifferentBoundsPropagator& operator=(const AllDifferentBoundsPropagator&) =
      delete;
 
  bool Propagate() final;
  void RegisterWith(GenericLiteralWatcher* watcher);
 
 private:
  // We locally cache the lb/ub for faster sorting and to guarantee some
  // invariant when we push bounds.
  struct CachedBounds {
    AffineExpression expr;
    IntegerValue lb;
    IntegerValue ub;
  };
 
  // Fills integer_reason_ with the reason why we have the given hall interval.
  void FillHallReason(IntegerValue hall_lb, IntegerValue hall_ub);
 
  // Do half the job of Propagate(). This will split the variable into
  // independent subset, and call PropagateLowerBoundsInternal() on each of
  // them.
  bool PropagateLowerBounds();
  bool PropagateLowerBoundsInternal(IntegerValue min_lb,
                                    absl::Span<CachedBounds> bounds);
 
  // Internally, we will maintain a set of non-consecutive integer intervals of
  // the form [start, end]. Each point (i.e. IntegerValue) of such interval will
  // be associated to an unique input expression and via an union-find algorithm
  // point to its start. The end only make sense for representative.
  //
  // TODO(user): Because we don't use rank, we have a worst case complexity of
  // O(n log n). We could try a normal Union-find data structure, but then we
  // also have to maintain a start vector.
  //
  // Note that during the execution of the algorithm we start from empty
  // intervals and finish with a set of points of size num_vars.
  //
  // The list of all points are maintained in the dense vectors index_to_*_
  // where we have remapped values to indices (with GetIndex()) to make sure it
  // always fall into the correct range.
  int FindStartIndexAndCompressPath(int index);
 
  int GetIndex(IntegerValue value) const {
    DCHECK_GE(value, base_);
    DCHECK_LT(value - base_, index_to_start_index_.size());
    return (value - base_).value();
  }
 
  IntegerValue GetValue(int index) const { return base_ + IntegerValue(index); }
 
  IntegerTrail* integer_trail_;
 
  // These vector will be either sorted by lb or by -ub.
  std::vector<CachedBounds> bounds_;
  std::vector<CachedBounds> negated_bounds_;
 
  // The list of Hall intervalls detected so far, sorted.
  std::vector<IntegerValue> hall_starts_;
  std::vector<IntegerValue> hall_ends_;
 
  // Non-consecutive intervals related data-structures.
  IntegerValue base_;
  std::vector<int> indices_to_clear_;
  std::vector<int> index_to_start_index_;
  std::vector<int> index_to_end_index_;
  std::vector<bool> index_is_present_;
  std::vector<AffineExpression> index_to_expr_;
 
  // Temporary integer reason.
  std::vector<IntegerLiteral> integer_reason_;
};
 
}  // namespace sat
}  // namespace operations_research
 
#endif  // OR_TOOLS_SAT_ALL_DIFFERENT_H_