Fast solution to Subset sum

Question

Consider this way of solving the Subset sum problem:

def subset_summing_to_zero (activities):
  subsets = {0: []}
  for (activity, cost) in activities.iterit         


        

Answer 1

While my previous answer describes the polytime approximate algorithm to this problem, a request was specifically made for an implementation of Pisinger's polytime dynamic programming solution when all x_i in x are positive:

from bisect import bisect

def balsub(X,c):
    """ Simple impl. of Pisinger's generalization of KP for subset sum problems
    satisfying xi >= 0, for all xi in X. Returns the state array "st", which may
    be used to determine if an optimal solution exists to this subproblem of SSP.
    """
    if not X:
        return False
    X = sorted(X)
    n = len(X)
    b = bisect(X,c)
    r = X[-1]
    w_sum = sum(X[:b])
    stm1 = {}
    st = {}
    for u in range(c-r+1,c+1):
        stm1[u] = 0
    for u in range(c+1,c+r+1):
        stm1[u] = 1
    stm1[w_sum] = b
    for t in range(b,n+1):
        for u in range(c-r+1,c+r+1):
            st[u] = stm1[u]
        for u in range(c-r+1,c+1):
            u_tick = u + X[t-1]
            st[u_tick] = max(st[u_tick],stm1[u])
        for u in reversed(range(c+1,c+X[t-1]+1)):
            for j in reversed(range(stm1[u],st[u])):
                u_tick = u - X[j-1]
                st[u_tick] = max(st[u_tick],j)
    return st

Wow, that was headache-inducing. This needs proofreading, because, while it implements balsub, I can't define the right comparator to determine if the optimal solution to this subproblem of SSP exists.