Questions tagged [dynamic-programming]
Dynamic programming is an algorithmic technique for efficiently solving problems with a recursive structure containing many overlapping subproblems.
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Calculate optimal game upgrades, v2
This is the second iteration of the code I originally posted here: Calculate optimal game upgrades. Based on the feedback there, I chose to change the code to use a dynamic programming approach with ...
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Finding the number of distinct decompositions a number has using only repdigits
This is a problem from a previous semester that I am trying to upsolve. I am trying to solve a problem involving the total number of ways of decomposing a number using only repdigits. A repdigit is a ...
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Optimal Extraction of Longest Sorted Sequence from Individually Sorted Bucket Arrays Without Repetitions
Consider a bucket array containing sorted and/or empty buckets, and the goal is to extract the longest possible sequence in sorted order, under the following conditions:
Only one element in each ...
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Codeforces: D2. Counting Is Fun (Hard Version)
The code works okay for the following problem.
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An array 𝑏 of 𝑚 non-negative integers is said to be good if all the elements of 𝑏 can be made equal to 0 using the following operation some (...
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Collecting inputs from a list of file names or stdin if there is no input files
In my program, I want to either read from a file or stdin depending on the arguments. I did this function to collect input:
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C++ - Secretary Problem using dynamic programming
I tried using dynamic programming to get a solution to the Secretary Problem. It seems to me it's working with with expected result. I really didn't want to use ...
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Another ATMs cash-out (denomination) algorithm in Java
Related to this question and this answer, I would like to have a second review from you on a modified version.
The problem I tried to solve
Some kind of "Minimum count of numbers required from ...
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Sum of bitwise XOR of each subarray weighted by length
here is the problem statement
You are given an array a of length n consisting of non-negative integers.
You have to calculate the value of \$\sum_{l=1}^n \sum_{r=l}^n f(l,r)\cdot (r - l + 1)\$ where \...
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Leetcode: 2327. Number of People Aware of a Secret
On day 1, one person discovers a secret.
You are given an integer delay, which means that each person will share the secret with a new person every day, starting from delay days after discovering the ...
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Find largest sum not involving consecutive values
There is a question to basically find the largest sum in an array, such that no two elements are chosen adjacent to each other. The concept is to recursively calculate the sum, while considering and ...
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k-dice Ways to get a target value
I'm trying to solve the following problem:
You have a k-dice.
A k-dice is a dice which have k-faces and each face have value written from 1 to k.
Eg. A 6-dice is the normal dice we use while playing ...
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Longest (more or less) ideal subsequence
An ideal subsequence is a subsequence of a string, where the distance between adjacent characters in the subsequence is bounded by a maximum, i.e. \$\lvert c[i] - c[i\pm 1] \rvert \leq k\$
Example:
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Making my DP algorithm faster - longest palindromic substring
The following code is my solution to a LeetCode question - find the longest palindromic substring. My code is 100% correct, it passed once but it took too long, and in most of the reruns I hit a "...
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Leetcode 55. Jump Game solution
I was working on Jump Game problem on leetcode
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You are given an integer array nums. You are initially positioned at the array's first index, and each element in the array represents your ...
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Re-order table columns in HTML dynamically with Javascript
I've a table in HTML looks like this:
Subjects
n1
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n3
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Segmentation of list to minimize the largest sum
I have written the following code for diving a list 'seq' into 'k' segments such that the maximum sum of each segment is minimized. I have used dynamic programming to solve this problem. But my class &...
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Find all non-crossing tuples which has the same content with a given tableau
Let T be a semistandard Young tableau of rectangular shape. For example,
[[1,2,4],[3,5,6]]
is such a tableau, where [1,2,4] and [3,5,6] are columns. All non-...
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make html table in sync with javascript array
I have an array of users containing user name with their rules on my practice project
I have generated a table in HTML from that array in JS, So I can
change the ...
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Longest Palindromic Substring | Python Code Giving TLE
Problem Statement
Given a string s , return the longest palindromic substring in s.
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Coin partitions
I am looking to obtain the partitions of coins that sum to a target amount
So I tried search online, but every single website loves to use this problem to show the benefits of dynamic programming. ...
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Longest Increasing Subsequence of Rectangles
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I was looking at some programming Olympiads the other day, and I found this ACM-ICPC Ukraine 2013 pdf.
The part I am working on is Problem D, which consist of finding out how many rectangle ...
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RodCutting and learning Dynamic Programming
I tried to learn dynamic programming going from recursion to memoized version with the RodCutting problem: Returns the best obtainable price for a rod of length n and price[] as prices of different ...
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Bellman-Ford algorithm implementation
I have used an adjacency list to represent the graph.
This implementation is based on the procedure given in the book 'Introduction to Algorithms'.
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HackerRank: Sam and substrings | How can dynamic programming be used in my code?
Given a number as a string, no leading zeros, determine the sum of all integer values of substrings of the string.
Given an integer as a string, sum all of its substrings cast as integers. As the ...
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Find maximum value of recursively-defined "fusc" function
I've been trying this question from SPOJ, which asks for the user to enter a number n, and they will receive a maximum fusc value that lies in between 0 to ...
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Divide array into three disjoint sets with equal sum
Problem definition : Array partition problem
Given an array of positive integers, divide it into three disjoint subsets having equal sum. These disjoint sets cover the complete array.
Example
Input: [...
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Target Sum array using Dynamic Programming
I'm learning Dynamic Programming and trying to solve this Target Sum array problem. I've to find an array of integers that sums to a given target sum using the integers of given input array. I've used ...
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Recursive solution of ordered Coin Combinations II (CSES)
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Consider a money system consisting of n coins. Each coin has a positive integer value. Your task is to calculate the number of distinct ordered ways you can produce a money sum x using ...
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Find ALL duplicate subtrees. using recursion
This is just a practice exercise, I'm trying to understand dynamic programming as deeply as I can. I solved this using recursion, though I am not sure if it will always work. If anyone could tell me a ...
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Leetcode 377. Combination Sum IV Javascript Memoization attempt
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Patch a JSON object using dynamic / ExpandoObject with System.Text.Json
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Recently, I was making some updates to an "older" library that would handle PATCH-style modifications to an object that is persisted in a JSON format on our document-storage ...
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Calculate sum of a substring
I try to solve some old Codeforces questions. The problem is;
Petya once wrote a sad love song and shared it to Vasya. The song is a
string consisting of lowercase English letters. Vasya made up q
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Killing a Hydra - Overengineered
Background
This question is inspired by the question: Killing a hydra, and my response therein. I will restate the problem at hand in full so that this question is fully self contained
You can only ...
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K Inverse Pairs Array - Brute Force
For an integer array nums, an inverse pair is a pair of integers [i, j] where ...
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Haskell implementation of Needleman-Wunsch
The code below is a Haskell implementation of Needleman-Wunsch algorithm for sequence alignment (and string edit distance). It's an experiment in trying to closely imitate the dynamic programming ...
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I want reduce the time complexity for this ladder problem to find the minimum ladders required
I was trying to attempt below given challenge. I tried multiple ways to solve the problem but none of them were good enough to pass the time limit. Please advise if you have any idea to improve on ...
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Unique Paths II, dynamic programming problem, O(n^2) time, O(n^2) space
This is based on this leetcode question. I get the correct answer, but I know it could be much, much cleaner. I also know there is supposed to be an O(n) space solution, but I'm not sure how to ...
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Count the number of distinct subarrays
I want to determine the number of distinct subarrays that can form having at most a given number of odd elements. Two subarrays are distinct if they differ at even one position. The subarray is a ...
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Haskell Dynamic Programming on a Tree
Here is my shot at Homework 8 of CIS-194 (from Spring '13). The problem is about a hierarchy of employees at a company (a tree), each node being of type Employee, ...
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Efficiently calculate value of Pascal's Triangle using memoization and recursion
So reading about functional programming, applications to dynamic programming, and learning Scala. I figured I would try it out with a popular example, Pascal's Triangle, tests against known values ...
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Grid Dynamic Programming
atcoder.jp Problem Statement:
There is a grid with H horizontal rows and W vertical columns. Let (i,j) denote the square at the ...
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Searching for an idiomatic Rust implementation of Minimum Edit Distance (LeetCode #72)
I am solving LeetCode Dynamic Programming challenges (this one is #72, at https://leetcode.com/problems/edit-distance).
Here below, I've implemented a Rust solution for the minimum edit distance ...
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Find a sum using just two different digits
The problem statement was pretty easy and I was able to run half of the test cases, but some of the test cases in the end gave me the error of memory limit reached. What can I do here to improve the ...
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Divide a set into subset with some constraints
Note - I am not sure whether this question belongs to stackoverflow or CSE stackexchange or here
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Given a list Lconsisting of not necessarily unique non-...
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C++ - Longest Common Subsequence
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Here is my code to compute the length of the longest common subsequence of two integer arrays arr[] and brr[]...
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LeetCode: Stone Game C#
https://leetcode.com/problems/stone-game/
Alex and Lee play a game with piles of stones. There are an even
number of piles arranged in a row, and each pile has a positive
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Code A Primitive Calculator ( x3,x2,+1) Using Dynamic programming [closed]
Question -You are given a primitive calculator that can perform the following three operations with the current number 𝑥: multiply 𝑥 by 2, multiply 𝑥 by 3, or add 1 to 𝑥. Your goal is given ...
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Generate unique string permutations recursively
🧩 Objective
Write a recursive method for generating all permutations of an input string. Return them as a set.
See: Recursive String Permutations - Interview Cake
🔎 Questions
1: How does the ...
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LeetCode on Longest Palindromic Substring in Python
This is a programming question from LeetCode:
Given a string s, return the longest palindromic substring in s.
Example 1:
Input: s = "babad" Output: "bab" Note: "aba" is ...
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