Processing math: 100%
(Analysis by Weiming Zhou)

Let s1n be the string generated after applying the m initial flip updates.

Subtask 1:

We can make s by directly applying the flips in O(nm) time. For each query, we can then use O(2n) time to enumerate all possible subsequences and take the lexicographically largest one.

This takes O(nm+q2n) time, which runs in time for n10,q1000.

Subtask 2, 3:

To make further progress on the problem, we consider the following greedy strategy:

Let sz=rl+1 and z be the number of 0's in slr. Let t1k be our final string.

Remember that comparing the lexicographical order of two strings t1 and t2 is equivalent to comparing the numbers they interpret in binary.

Thus, our solution that removes all the earliest 0s (and 1s when we run out of 0s) is optimal.

For the sake of simplicity, we will analyze subtask 3 first.

We can loop over the elements in slr and directly apply our greedy strategy. If there are enough 1's, our answer is a string with all ones, otherwise, we remove the first szk zeroes. Finally, we can interpret our answer as a binary number with the formula given.

Here is Alex Fan's C++ code:

using namespace std;
 
#include <iostream>
#include <set>
#include <algorithm>
#include <vector>
#include <map>
 
#define MAXN 200005
#define MOD 1000000007
 
int N, M, Q, a[MAXN];
 
int main() {
    ios_base::sync_with_stdio(false);
    cin.tie(0);
 
    cin >> N >> M >> Q;
    for(int i = 0;i < M;++i) {
        int l, r;
        cin >> l >> r;
        l--;r--;
        for(int i = l;i <= r;++i) {
            a[i] ^= 1;
        }
    }
 
    for(int i = 0;i < Q;++i) {
        int l, r, k;
        cin >> l >> r >> k;
        l--;r--;
        int owo = l;
        int uwu = 0;
        for(int i = l;i <= r;++i) {
            uwu += a[i];
            if(uwu + (r - i) >= k) owo = i;
        }
        uwu = 0;
        for(int i = l;i <= owo;++i) uwu += a[i];
        if(uwu >= k) {
            int xwx = 0;
            for(int i = 0;i < k;++i) {
                xwx = (2 * xwx + 1) % MOD;
            }
            cout << xwx << endl;
            continue;
        }
        int xwx = 0;
        for(int i = 0;i < uwu;++i) {
            xwx = (2 * xwx + 1) % MOD;
        }
        for(int i = owo + 1;i <= r;++i) {
            xwx = (2 * xwx + a[i]) % MOD;
        }
        cout << xwx << endl;
 
    }
 
    return 0;
}

For subtask 2, we can observe that even though n is large, we can describe it as O(m) intervals of 0's or 1's. We can still apply our greedy but slightly modified to account for the larger intervals. This approach would require us to raise 2 a large power modulo 109+7, which can be efficiently done using binary exponentiation. For more on binary exponentiation, refer to this USACO guide article. This takes O(mqlogn) time, which runs in time for m10.

Subtask 4:

To improve past O(n) or O(m) per query, we must perform the greedy strategy more efficiently. We can binary search on the index i of the szk+1'th zero. This can be done with an auxiliary array cnt that counts the number of 1's in the prefix of 1i1. Once we have found it, our string t is 111 for il ones followed by sir. Even though we cannot explicitly store t, we can still interpret it.

Suppose we precomputed prefix sums pre1n where prei=i1j=1sj2nj1.

Then, t will be intepretted as:

2k2k(cnticntl)+(1/2)nr(prer+1prei)

This can be evaluated in O(logn) or O(1) time depending on how the powers of 2 and 12 mod 109+7 are computed. Note that 12500000004mod109+7. There is an alternate approach using prei=ij=1sj2ij, which does not require inverse mod (division under mod).

This has complexity O(nlogn+qlogn) or O(n+qlogn) as we have to binary search on the index i.

Here is my code in C++:


//i dont code with uwus.... qaq

#include <iostream>
#include <algorithm>
#include <vector>
#include <array>
#include <map>

#define sz(x) ((int)(x.size()))
#define all(x) x.begin(), x.end()


using ll = long long;

const ll mod = 1e9 + 7;
const ll half = (mod + 1)/2;
const int MX = 2e5 + 10;

using namespace std;


int n, m, q;

ll pre[MX], cnt[MX], val[MX];

ll binpow(ll base, int p){ //as all the exponents are <= n, we can also precompute it
	ll ans = 1;
	for(int i = 0; (1ll << i) <= p; i++){
		if(p&(1ll << i)){
			(ans *= base) %= mod;
		}
		(base *= base) %= mod;
	}
	return ans;
}

int main(){
	cin.tie(0) -> sync_with_stdio(0);
	cin >> n >> m >> q ;
	for(int i = 1; i<=m; i++){
		int l, r;
		cin >> l >> r;
		val[l] ^= 1;
		val[r+1] ^= 1;
	}
	for(int i = 1; i<=n+1; i++){
		val[i] ^= val[i-1];
		cnt[i] = cnt[i-1] + val[i-1];
		pre[i] = pre[i-1] + val[i-1] * binpow(2, n - i + 1);
		pre[i] %= mod;
	}
	while(q--){
		int l, r, k;
		cin >> l >> r >> k;
		if(cnt[r+1] - cnt[l] >= k){
			cout << binpow(2, k) - 1 << "\n";
			continue;
		}
		int lo = 0, hi = n+1;
		while(lo + 1 != hi){
			int mid = (lo + hi)/2;
			if(cnt[mid] - cnt[l] + (r + 1 - mid) >= k){
				lo = mid;
			}else{
				hi = mid;
			}
		}
		int i = lo;
		ll front = binpow(2, k) - binpow(2, k - (cnt[i] - cnt[l]));
		(front += mod) %= mod;
		ll back = binpow(half, n - r) * (pre[r+1] - pre[i])%mod;
		(back += mod) %= mod;
		cout << (front + back)%mod << "\n";
	}
}

Subtask 5:

Again, as n is large, we can describe s as O(m) intervals of 0's and 1's. Additionally, with q queries, we can determine n=O(m+q) relevant points for which to precompute information. Suppose the start points of these 0/1 and query intervals in sorted order are e1n.

Imagine the two prefix sums array of length n, cnt and pre, as the same as defined above. It is not practical to store both arrays explicitly, so we will only store the values at e1,e2,,en. Suppose we defined cnti=cntei and prei=preei (and cnt0=pre0=0). We can compute pre efficiently by computing the powers of 2 using binary exponentiation.

When we binary search, we find j such that eji<ej+1. Then as all the elements in sejej+11 are either all 0 or all 1, we can directly solve for i with casework.

When we finally interpret t, we can break the sum of sir into two parts: the prefix of 1's and the suffix of our subarray. The suffix of our subarray is given as (1/2)nr(prer+1prei). Note that we cannot precompute the value of prei (as we don't know what i is), but we can efficiently evaluate it on the fly. This again follows from having a precomputed value up until ej and knowing that the interval from ej to i is either all 0's or all 1's.

This takes O(logm) time to binary search i, and O(logn) time to compute the powers of two per query. We also need O((m+q)(log(m+q)+logn)) time to precompute cnt and pre. This gives our final complexity to be O((m+q)(log(m+q)+logn)). Other complexity with log2 complexities might be fast enough to pass.

Here is my C++ code:

//i dont code with uwus.... qaq

#include <iostream>
#include <algorithm>
#include <vector>
#include <array>
#include <map>

#define sz(x) ((int)(x.size()))
#define all(x) x.begin(), x.end()


using ll = long long;

const ll mod = 1e9 + 7;
const ll half = (mod + 1)/2;

using namespace std;



vector<int> e;
vector<ll> pre, cnt;
vector<int> val;

map<int, int> delta;

int n, m, q;


vector<array<int, 3>> qqs;

ll binpow(ll base, int p){
	ll ans = 1;
	for(int i = 0; (1ll << i) <= p; i++){
		if(p&(1ll << i)){
			(ans *= base) %= mod;
		}
		(base *= base) %= mod;
	}
	return ans;
}

#define gind(x) (lower_bound(all(e), x) - e.begin())


int main(){
	cin.tie(0) -> sync_with_stdio(0);

	cin >> n >> m >> q;
	for(int i = 1; i<=m; i++){
		int l, r;
		cin >> l >> r;
		delta[l] ^= 1;
		delta[r+1] ^= 1;
		e.push_back(l);
		e.push_back(r+1);
	}
	for(int i = 1; i<=q; i++){
		int l, r, k;
		cin >> l >> r >> k; 
		qqs.push_back({l, r, k}); //no need to make queries offline, but makes impl easier
		e.push_back(l);
		e.push_back(r+1);
	}
	e.push_back(0);
	e.push_back(n+1);
	sort(all(e));
	e.resize(unique(all(e)) - e.begin());

	m = sz(e); //n'

	val.resize(m);
	pre.resize(m);
	cnt.resize(m);

	for(auto [i, v] : delta){
		val[gind(i)] ^= v;
	}
	for(int i = 1; i<m; i++){
		val[i] ^= val[i-1]; //value of s_e_i
		cnt[i] += cnt[i-1]; //sum of [0, e_i)
		pre[i] += pre[i-1]; //sum of [0, e_i)

		cnt[i] += val[i-1] * (e[i] - e[i-1]);
		pre[i] += val[i-1] * (binpow(2, n+1 - e[i-1]) - binpow(2, n+1 - e[i]));

		pre[i] %= mod;
	}


	for(auto [l, r, k] : qqs){
		int gl = gind(l);
		int gr = gind(r+1);

		if(cnt[gr] - cnt[gl] >= k){
			cout << binpow(2, k) - 1 << "\n";
			continue;
		}


		int cntl = cnt[gl];

		int lo = 0, hi = m;

		while(lo + 1 != hi){
			int mid = (lo + hi)/2;
			if(cnt[mid] - cntl + (r - e[mid]) >= k){
				lo = mid;
			}else{
				hi = mid;
			}
		}

		int i = cnt[lo] + r - cntl - k;

		ll front = binpow(2, k) -  binpow(2, k - (cnt[lo] - cntl));
		ll prei = pre[lo] + val[lo] * (binpow(2, n+1 - e[lo]) - binpow(2, n+1 - i))%mod;
		(prei += mod) %= mod;
		ll back = binpow(half, n-r) * (pre[gr] - prei)%mod;
		(front += mod) %= mod;
		(back += mod) %= mod;
		cout << (front + mod + back) % mod << "\n";
	}

	return 0;
}



Bonus: Can you solve this in O(n+q) time?