Abstract

Many dynamic programming algorithms for discrete optimization problems are pure in that they only use min/max and addition operations in their recursions. Some of them, in particular those for various shortest path problems, are even incremental in that one of the inputs to the addition operations is a variable. We present an explicit optimization problem such that it can be solved by a pure DP algorithm using a polynomial number of operations, but any incremental DP algorithm for this problem requires a super-polynomial number of operations.

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