[Haskell-cafe] Set monad
Petr Pudlák
petr.mvd at gmail.com
Mon May 13 14:32:45 CEST 2013
On 04/12/2013 12:49 PM, oleg at okmij.org wrote:
>> One problem with such monad implementations is efficiency. Let's define
>>
>> step :: (MonadPlus m) => Int -> m Int
>> step i = choose [i, i + 1]
>>
>> -- repeated application of step on 0:
>> stepN :: (Monad m) => Int -> m (S.Set Int)
>> stepN = runSet . f
>> where
>> f 0 = return 0
>> f n = f (n-1)>>= step
>>
>> Then `stepN`'s time complexity is exponential in its argument. This is
>> because `ContT` reorders the chain of computations to right-associative,
>> which is correct, but changes the time complexity in this unfortunate way.
>> If we used Set directly, constructing a left-associative chain, it produces
>> the result immediately:
> The example is excellent. And yet, the efficient genuine Set monad is
> possible.
>
> BTW, a simpler example to see the problem with the original CPS monad is to
> repeat
> choose [1,1]>> choose [1,1]>>choose [1,1]>> return 1
>
> and observe exponential behavior. But your example is much more
> subtle.
>
> Enclosed is the efficient genuine Set monad. I wrote it in direct
> style (it seems to be faster, anyway). The key is to use the optimized
> choose function when we can.
>
> {-# LANGUAGE GADTs, TypeSynonymInstances, FlexibleInstances #-}
>
> module SetMonadOpt where
>
> import qualified Data.Set as S
> import Control.Monad
>
> data SetMonad a where
> SMOrd :: Ord a => S.Set a -> SetMonad a
> SMAny :: [a] -> SetMonad a
>
> instance Monad SetMonad where
> return x = SMAny [x]
>
> m>>= f = collect . map f $ toList m
>
> toList :: SetMonad a -> [a]
> toList (SMOrd x) = S.toList x
> toList (SMAny x) = x
>
> collect :: [SetMonad a] -> SetMonad a
> collect [] = SMAny []
> collect [x] = x
> collect ((SMOrd x):t) = case collect t of
> SMOrd y -> SMOrd (S.union x y)
> SMAny y -> SMOrd (S.union x (S.fromList y))
> collect ((SMAny x):t) = case collect t of
> SMOrd y -> SMOrd (S.union y (S.fromList x))
> SMAny y -> SMAny (x ++ y)
>
> runSet :: Ord a => SetMonad a -> S.Set a
> runSet (SMOrd x) = x
> runSet (SMAny x) = S.fromList x
>
> instance MonadPlus SetMonad where
> mzero = SMAny []
> mplus (SMAny x) (SMAny y) = SMAny (x ++ y)
> mplus (SMAny x) (SMOrd y) = SMOrd (S.union y (S.fromList x))
> mplus (SMOrd x) (SMAny y) = SMOrd (S.union x (S.fromList y))
> mplus (SMOrd x) (SMOrd y) = SMOrd (S.union x y)
>
> choose :: MonadPlus m => [a] -> m a
> choose = msum . map return
>
>
> test1 = runSet (do
> n1<- choose [1..5]
> n2<- choose [1..5]
> let n = n1 + n2
> guard $ n< 7
> return n)
> -- fromList [2,3,4,5,6]
>
> -- Values to choose from might be higher-order or actions
> test1' = runSet (do
> n1<- choose . map return $ [1..5]
> n2<- choose . map return $ [1..5]
> n<- liftM2 (+) n1 n2
> guard $ n< 7
> return n)
> -- fromList [2,3,4,5,6]
>
> test2 = runSet (do
> i<- choose [1..10]
> j<- choose [1..10]
> k<- choose [1..10]
> guard $ i*i + j*j == k * k
> return (i,j,k))
> -- fromList [(3,4,5),(4,3,5),(6,8,10),(8,6,10)]
>
> test3 = runSet (do
> i<- choose [1..10]
> j<- choose [1..10]
> k<- choose [1..10]
> guard $ i*i + j*j == k * k
> return k)
> -- fromList [5,10]
>
> -- Test by Petr Pudlak
>
> -- First, general, unoptimal case
> step :: (MonadPlus m) => Int -> m Int
> step i = choose [i, i + 1]
>
> -- repeated application of step on 0:
> stepN :: Int -> S.Set Int
> stepN = runSet . f
> where
> f 0 = return 0
> f n = f (n-1)>>= step
>
> -- it works, but clearly exponential
> {-
> *SetMonad> stepN 14
> fromList [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14]
> (0.09 secs, 31465384 bytes)
> *SetMonad> stepN 15
> fromList [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15]
> (0.18 secs, 62421208 bytes)
> *SetMonad> stepN 16
> fromList [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16]
> (0.35 secs, 124876704 bytes)
> -}
>
> -- And now the optimization
> chooseOrd :: Ord a => [a] -> SetMonad a
> chooseOrd x = SMOrd (S.fromList x)
>
> stepOpt :: Int -> SetMonad Int
> stepOpt i = chooseOrd [i, i + 1]
>
> -- repeated application of step on 0:
> stepNOpt :: Int -> S.Set Int
> stepNOpt = runSet . f
> where
> f 0 = return 0
> f n = f (n-1)>>= stepOpt
>
> {-
> stepNOpt 14
> fromList [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14]
> (0.00 secs, 515792 bytes)
> stepNOpt 15
> fromList [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15]
> (0.00 secs, 515680 bytes)
> stepNOpt 16
> fromList [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16]
> (0.00 secs, 515656 bytes)
>
> stepNOpt 30
> fromList [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30]
> (0.00 secs, 1068856 bytes)
> -}
>
>
Oleg, thanks a lot for this example, and sorry for my late reply. I
really like the idea and I'm hoping to a similar concept soon for a
monad representing probability computations.
With best regards,
Petr
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