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Resource Allocation Dynamic Programming
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Resource Allocation Dynamic Programming

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Problem

PhonePe wants to distribute a fixed promotional budget across merchants. For each merchant, several campaign options are available, where each option has a spending cost and an expected business value. Select at most one option per merchant and maximize the total expected value without exceeding the budget.

Formal Specification

Implement allocate_campaign_budget(budget, merchant_options), where budget is an integer and merchant_options[i] is a list of [cost, value] pairs for merchant i. The function must return the maximum total value achievable. A merchant may receive no campaign, and unused budget is allowed.

Constraints

  • 0 <= budget <= 10^4
  • 1 <= len(merchant_options) <= 100
  • Each merchant has at most 20 options
  • 0 <= cost <= budget
  • 0 <= value <= 10^6
  • Each option is represented as [cost, value]
  • At most one option may be selected for each merchant

Function Signature

def allocate_campaign_budget(budget, merchant_options):
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