Problem Statement

Definition

Limits

Constraints

• N will be between 1 and 100, inclusive.
• K will be between 1 and 3, inclusive.

Test cases

1. • N3
   • K2

   Returns24

   The 24 different graphs are shown below. In each picture, the vertices have labels 1, 2, 3 from the left to the right.

   

2. • N15
   • K2

   Returns789741546

3. • N100
   • K1

   Returns1

4. • N1
   • K3

   Returns3

5. • N100
   • K3

   Returns

   492594064

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7. There can be at most 3 colors. So how about we solve for 3 colors, then we can adapt the solution for fewer number of colors with small tweaks.

   The problem statement describes the decision as first choosing colors and then creating the edges. But the actual rules for counting the unique setups combines the two together. Let's try to make the decision about picking a color AND an edge for each vertex.

   Imagine we've already picked colors and edges for the first i nodes,
   let's decide the i-th
   node. We can pick one of 3 colors:

   • Pick color A. Now we have to decide the edge. We can choose to connect vertex i to
     any of the previous vertices as long as they have a different color. Since this is a counting problem, let's keep in mind the counts for each color (assume 3 colors) : a, b and c.
     We cannot connect to color a,
     so there are b+c vertices
     we can connect this vertex to. There is an additional option: Don't connect the vertex at all. This gives b+c+1 options.
     Note that later vertices don't need to know what edge we picked, only the color.
   • If we pick color B: There are 1+a+c options.
   • 1+a+b options
     in case color C is picked.

   The idea is that we can just increment the count of the respective color and move on to the next i.
   Also note that i=a+b+c,
   because there were i vertices
   so the sum of all colors must be i.
   This helps us do a dynamic programming solution. Let's name f(a,b,c) to
   the number of ways to pick colors and edges for vertices starting from i=a+b+c onwards,
   assuming there were a, b and c vertices
   of each color among the first i vertices.

   • Base case: a+b+c=N.
     This means that we have already made a decision for all the vertices and there is nothing else to do. One way to do nothing: The result is 1.
   • Else there are 3 options:
     • We can pick color A.
       This means (1+b+c) options
       for the edge. The number of A vertices
       is incremented. Between picking the edge and picking the next colors/edges we have two independent decisions, so we multiply: (1+b+c)⋅f(a+1,b,c).
     • Or pick color B: (1+a+c)⋅f(a,b+1,c).
     • Or C: (1+a+b)⋅f(a,b,c+1).

     The addition of these 3 values is the result for f(a,b,c).

   Fewer colors

   When there are two colors, we can just disable the part where we pick color C.
   The state can still be (a,b,c),
   but c will
   always be 0.

   When there is one color, we can just return the number of graphs of size N that
   follow this rule OR we can do the same trick as for K=2 and
   just disable the part where we decide to use color B and C.

   Code

   The idea with that recurrence relation is that it is acyclic and the number of states is not very large O(n3).
   We can implement the recurrence using memoization or iteratively (dynamic programming) to guarantee O(n3) run
   time.

   const int MOD = 1000000007;
   
   int dp[101][101][101];
   
   int N, K;
   
   int f(int a, int b, int c)
   
   {
   
       int & res = dp[a][b][c];
   
       if (res == -1) {
   
           if (a + b + c == N) {
   
               // the end
   
               res = 1;
   
           } else {
   
               res = 0;
   
               long p, q;
   
               // color vertex with color a
   
               p = 1 + b + c;
   
               q = f(a + 1, b, c);
   
               res += (int)( (p * q) % MOD );
   
               res %= MOD;
   
               // color vertex with color b
   
               if (K >= 2) {
   
                   p = 1 + a + c;
   
                   q = f(a, b + 1, c);
   
                   res += (int)( (p * q) % MOD );
   
                   res %= MOD;
   
               }
   
               // color vertex with color c
   
               if (K >= 3) {
   
                   p = 1 + a + b;
   
                   q = f(a, b, c + 1);
   
                   res += (int)( (p * q) % MOD );
   
                   res %= MOD;
   
               }
   
           }
   
       }
   
       return res;
   
   }
   
   int countWays(int N, int K)
   
   {
   
       this->N = N;
   
       this->K = K;
   
       memset(dp, -1, sizeof(dp));
   
       return f(0,0,0);
   
   }