Questions tagged [heap]
A heap is a tree-based data structure that satisfies the heap property. For questions about memory allocated from the system heap, use the [memory-management] tag.
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Heap implementation for numeric types
I am trying to improve the quality of my code as well as trying to study the Heap data structure. I have implemented a minHeap (Heap in which minimum value nodes ...
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Max Heap Data Structure Implemented with Python List
Created a max heap using a Python list as the base storage. The heap starts at index 1.
Here is the heap:
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Min/Max Heap implementation in Python
I'm refreshing some of my datastructures. I saw this as the perfect opportunity to get some feedback on my code.
I'm interested in:
Algorithm wise:
Is my implementation correct? (The tests say so)
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Purely functional brodal heap implementation
I implemented the Brodal heap from Brodal & Osaki 1996: Optimal Purely Functional Priority Queues in haskell. The paper gives an implementation in ML but without higher-kinded types. The goal was ...
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Operations on a heap
Introduction
I started going through some basic algorithms as I'll have algorithms course next semester. The last time I've written any heap operations is around 5 years ago. This time around it took ...
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Implementing binary-heap in x86-64 assembly
I'm trying to implement some of the simplest classical data-structures in x86-64 assembly on linux.
PRIMARY GOAL: Reduce memory consumption and increase performance (maybe using x86-64 architecture ...
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Optimisation suggestions for Min Heap
Can someone please optimisations for my implementation of min heap.Its performance is poor compared to the heapq module in python. My use case for the MinHeap class is 'N' insertions and extractions ...
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Binary Heap Implementation in Java
Here's my array-based binary heap java implementation, looking for comments / suggestions on my approach. I used a base heap class to contain most of the logic, since the behavior of min/max heaps is ...
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Comparing two heap sift algorithms in Java
My research question was to find out whether minimizing the number of assignments in a heap lead to any time savings. The "optimized" version stores the element to sift, sift the minimum to its place ...
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Min&Max Heap implementation in .NET
Overview
I was doing some performance optimization patterns when I stumbled upon PriorityQueue and I implemented for that reason ...
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Binary heap (priority queue) implementation in JavaScript
I wrote this heap implementation because I need it to run Dijkstra's algorithm to find paths in a game (for which reason I'd like this implementation not to be unreasonably slow...)
Sadly I don't ...
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Binary Heap Object
I wrote a basic binary heap object in python 3, and was wondering how it can be improved to be cleaner and more pythonic.
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A priority queue where elements have keys and can adjust element priority by key
This is Python 3 code for a priority queue where elements have keys and can adjust element priority by key. Can I please have this code reviewed?
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Template heap/priority-queue data structure with update-key operation
I implemented the following priority-queue/heap with an update-key operation. The update key uses the map from STL, which still requires lg(n) time for lookup. ...
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Prim's Algorithm using heapq module in python
Implementing Prim's with a \$O(m\log n)\$ run time using heaps, similar to Dijkstra heap implementation. Where \$n\$ is the number of nodes, and \$m\$ is the number of edges. Using the ...
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Minimum Priority Queue using Heap
After getting suggestions for Maximum Priority Queue I have written program for Minimum Priority Queue. Help me improve this code.
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Maximum Priority Queue using Heap
I have written this program for Maximim Priority Queue after studying from Introduction to Algorithm . I want to improve my code. Is there any other method to implement Priority Queue instead of Heap?
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Finding the running median with 2 heaps [closed]
I am trying to solve running median problem in hackerrank https://www.hackerrank.com/challenges/ctci-find-the-running-median and below is my code
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C++ Dijkstra's shortest path implementation
I have created a c++ function that searches for the shortest path between two points with dijkstra's shortest path algorithmus. I'm using it right now in combination with a program that solves mazes ...
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Given some integers, return the k most frequent elements
Given a non-empty array of integers, return the k most frequent elements.
For example, given [1,1,1,2,2,3] and k = 2, return <...
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Implementation of the Heap Sort algorithm in C++
I'm writing a little collection of sorting algorithms and some benchmarks (using Google benchmark).
I wrote the following heap sort but I'm struggling in ...
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Select top 2 employees based on Grade and Alphabetical Order
Given a list of Employees ( name and grade). Output the names of the top 2 employees selected for a task(sorted based on grade and then alphabetically).
I am using a maxHeap and override the ...
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Could this be considered a valid mergesort? [closed]
I tried to do a mergesort function for an assignment without importing merge from heapq:
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Min & Max heap implementation
As follows I have implemented Min and Max heap data structure, using an array for storing elements. I would need a code review, please.
Please, spare recommendations for generic implementation as they ...
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Binary Min Heap data structure implementation
After reading about heap I tried to implement the heap. Below is my code along with test. Any feedback with respect to correctness, performance is welcome.
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Generic min heap in C++
I have recently started programming in C++. I have coded in MATLAB and C in the past. The following code implements a min heap as a generic class in C++. I would like to get some feedback on the ...
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k th smallest element in row wise and column wise sorted matrix
Find the kth smallest element in row wise and column wise sorted element:
Example:
matrix[row][col] < matrix[row+1][col]
matrix[row][col] < matrix[row][col+1]
mat=
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Binary Heap Order Fixing in Java
I am implementing a binary heap in Java. I've come to the point where I have to fix the heap ordering whenever a new node is being inserted to the heap. The code below fixes the heap ordering. I have ...
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Sorting almost sorted array with a minimum heap
I'm currently looking into the quickest way to sort an almost sorted array:
Given an array of \$n\$ elements, where each element is at most \$k\$ away
from its target position, devise an ...
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Python Heap Implementation
I made this snippet for reviewing my DS textbook.
Is it okay to write iterative loops in function _upheap and _downheap?
Any ...
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Implementing heap in Python
This is basically a straightforward heap implementation. I am just moving from C to Python and I wanted to make sure that I follow Python's best practices in general. This heap is supposed to support ...
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C++11 (or C++14?) max heap implementation with a simple example
I've been writing C++03 non-professionally for a long time, and I finally started to play around with C++11 and C++14. I decided to try my hand at implementing a data structure that I was previously ...
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My own little memory manager in C
I have implemented a simple version of malloc() and its associated functions, free(), ...
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Finding the maximal bottleneck in a 2D matrix from source to destination
I recently started solving programming challenges and this one is causing me performance trouble. The problem statement is the following:
You are given a 2d matrix where each cell contains an ...
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Binary Heap where a comparison delegate is used
I currently have a Generic Implementation of a BinaryHeap. It must be able to maintain it's integrity with elements that may or may not implement ...
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Sort Characters By Frequency
I solved this problem.
Problem Statement
Given a string, sort it in decreasing order based on the frequency of
characters.
Example 1
Input: "tree"
Output: "eert"
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Template binary heap with lambda function comparator C++
This heap will be used for A* search pathfinding in my 2D isometric game engine. It uses lambda functions (instead of std::less or ...
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Find the running median with 2 heaps
I wrote code to solve the running median challenge using 2 heaps, and I'd appreciate any and all feedback.
Here is the problem:
You have a list of numbers and are scanning them one by one. ...
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C++ Heap implementation
I'm on my way of understanding basic data structures and sorting algorithms through implementing them in c++. Post is followed of my implementation of Vector. I decided to weld the heap behaviour ...
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Generic Median Heap using PriorityQueues
I've implemented a generic data structure to keep track of the median in a streaming list of numbers. I was hoping to gather the community's feedback on code style and taste.
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Linked list implementation of binary heap insertion
Is this a correct linked list implementation of binary heap insertion? This is not a homework exercise.
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Continuous median in Ruby
I have written a program in Ruby which calculates the median of a streaming set of numbers dynamically. For each number that arrives, the median is calculated for all the numbers that have arrived so ...
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Efficient bookkeeping in heap
I'm trying to implement a heap using list data structure. I'd also like to keep track of the position of elements in the list in order to enable easy deletion. My implementation involves looping ...
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Indexed Fibonacci heap implementation
I implemented two versions of a Fibonacci heap one using a unordered map (mapping keys to their nodes) so that the client can call decrease in \$O(1)\$ average and ...
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Testing if array is heap
This method tests an array of integers satisfies to see if its a max binary heap. This means
each node is greater than or equal to it's children
each node has at most 2 children
the leaf nodes are ...
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Generic Pairing Heap Performance
I have made a generic pairing heap library in C. Pairing heaps are one of the several heap variants with better asymptotic running times than standard binary heaps (others include Fibonacci heaps and ...
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Heap Implementation in C#
I am learning fundamental data structures, and I want to know if this is a valid implementation of a heap. Can any C# features be used to improve or extend the implementation? In addition to heapsort, ...
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(Min)Heap implementation
Being that I needed a min-heap implementation for a project, I implemented one. Now that it's finished I though about having a review for it. I'm interested in all aspects: readability, performance, ...
