# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# Copyright 2019 Kakao Brain
#
# Copyright (c) Facebook, Inc. and its affiliates. All rights reserved.
#
# This source code is licensed under the BSD license found in the
# LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
"""Implements "Block Partitions of Sequences" by Imre Bárány et al.

Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1308.2452.pdf

"""
from typing import Iterator, List, Tuple

__all__ = ["solve"]


def solve(sequence: List[int], partitions: int = 1) -> List[List[int]]:
    """Splits a sequence into several partitions to minimize variance for each
    partition.

    The result might not be optimal. However, it can be done only in O(kn³),
    where k is the number of partitions and n is the length of the sequence.

    """
    if partitions < 1:
        raise ValueError(f"partitions must be a positive integer ({partitions} < 1)")

    n = len(sequence)
    if n < partitions:
        raise ValueError(f"sequence is shorter than intended partitions ({n} < {partitions})")

    # Normalize the sequence in [0, 1].
    minimum = min(sequence)
    maximum = max(sequence) - minimum

    normal_sequence: List[float]
    if maximum == 0:
        normal_sequence = [0 for _ in sequence]
    else:
        normal_sequence = [(x - minimum) / maximum for x in sequence]

    splits = [n // partitions * (x + 1) for x in range(partitions - 1)] + [n]

    def block_size(i: int) -> float:
        start = splits[i - 1] if i > 0 else 0
        stop = splits[i]
        return sum(normal_sequence[start:stop])

    def leaderboard() -> Iterator[Tuple[float, int]]:
        return ((block_size(i), i) for i in range(partitions))

    while True:
        """
        (1) Fix p ∈ [k] with M(P) = bp. So Bp is a maximal block of P.
        """
        # max_size: M(P)
        max_size, p = max(leaderboard())

        while True:
            """
            (2) If M(P) ≤ m(P) + 1, then stop.
            """
            # min_size: m(P)
            min_size, q = min(leaderboard())

            if max_size <= min_size + 1:
                return [sequence[i:j] for i, j in zip([0] + splits[:-1], splits)]

            """
            (3) If M(P) > m(P) + 1, then let m(P) = bq for the q ∈ [k] which is
            closest to p (ties broken arbitrarily). Thus Bq is a minimal block
            of P. Let Bh be the block next to Bq between Bp and Bq. (Note that
            Bh is a non-empty block: if it were, then m(P) = 0 and we should
            have chosen Bh instead of Bq.)
            """
            if p < q:
                """
                So either p < q and then h = q−1 and we define P ∗ by moving
                the last element from Bh = Bq−1 to Bq,
                """
                h = q - 1
                splits[h] -= 1
            else:
                """
                or q < p, and then h = q + 1 and P ∗ is obtained by moving the
                first element of Bh = Bq+1 to Bq.
                """
                h = q + 1
                splits[q] += 1

            """
            Set P = P ∗ . If p = h, then go to (1), else go to (2).
            """
            if p == h:
                break