Questions tagged [memoization]
An optimization technique where function calls are cached to avoid duplicate computations.
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Generic memoize function in Swift
I need to perform some expensive calculation, such as determining a Fibonacci number:
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Generic memoize utility function for pure functions
Given the following generic memoize utility for pure functions with type hints:
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Memoizing a tree's parent pointers in Python
I have a simple binary tree that has no parent pointers.
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Knapsack performance issue
I'm solving a knapsack problem here. It works, but gives time limit exceeds on a certain test case.
Problem statement
There are N
items, numbered 1,2,…,N. For each i (1≤i≤N), Item i has a weight of ...
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Unique Distancing Problem, Memoization in Haskell
note: You might be scared seeing the length of the post, but it's actually not that long because you don't need to read the compiler logs or the python code to understand my code (I wish StackExchange ...
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Creating valid words on an n-by-n grid of characters using depth-first search
I am trying to create a word-finder game. There will be an n-by-n Board filled with Tiles.
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Extract useMemo to its own custom hook
I wanted to know if the useMemo function extracted like this is valid at all. This is a whole component (Sorry for the imports) that uses useMemo to get a data that is grabbed from the server using ...
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CodeChef Matches challenge
I am solving some problems from CodeChef but I am stuck on the Matches problem:
Ari and Rich are playing a pretty confusing game. Here are the rules
of the game:
The game is played with ...
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Naive Implementation of A Least Recently Used (LRU) Cache Memoiser
I wrote code to (naively) perform lru memoisation. I tried to write it in a functional programming style, and so did not make use of any global variables.
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Naive Implementation of Automatic Memoisation
I wrote code to (naively) perform automatic memoisation. I tried to write it in a functional programming style, and so did not make use of any global variables.
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Knapsack problem - recursive approach with memoization
This post is based on the 0-1 Knapsack problem. I came across this problem in Assignment #4 of Professor Tim Roughgarden's course Greedy Algorithms, Minimum Spanning Trees, and Dynamic Programming on ...
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Number of way to render an amount of money
I made an algorithm to train my skill in dynamic programming and I would like to have feed back on it. This algorithm takes a money system (int) and have a certain ...
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List of Happy Numbers in scala
Definition of Happy numbers taken from Wikipedia.
A happy number is defined by the following process: Starting with any positive integer, replace the number by the sum of the squares of its digits ...
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Recursive Fibonacci in Rust with memoization
I'm trying to come up with an "elegant" way of calculating Fibonacci for number in Rust, using recursion and memoization (self-imposed requirements).
This is what I have so far:
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Longest Collatz sequence in Scala
I am trying to find the longest Collatz Sequence:
Which starting number, ≤ N, produces the longest chain? If many possible such numbers are there print the maximum one. (1 ≤ N ≤ 5×106)
I tried ...
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Determine all ways a string can be split into valid words, given a dictionary of all words
This function word_break(s, dictionary) receives a string s and a set of all valid words ...
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Thread-Safe Garbage Collectible Memoizer
I am working on a little thread-safe, garbage collectible memoizer for Funcs in C#.
The goals:
Make it easy to Memoize deterministic functions.
Make sure invocation of a memoized Func with a given ...
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Robot on a Grid: Find a path between two corners with forbidden cells on the road
Problem statement
The problem is defined in the book as following:
8.2 Robot in a Grid Imagine a robot sitting on the upper left corner of grid with r rows and <...
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Dynamic programming to solve two printers with different speeds
I solved this problem using a Class, but thought I might try to figure out this memoization thing.
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There are two printers that print pages at different speeds (X, Y).
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Recursive Fibonacci in Java
I just started learning recursion and memoization, so I decided to give a simple implementation a shot. Works with some simple test cases I came up with. Is there anything I can add to make this more ...
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Project Euler 357 prime number generator in Python 3
I'm brute forcing the Project Euler 357 since no better algorithm comes to my mind. The challenge asks:
Find the sum of all positive integers n not exceeding 108 such that for every divisor d of n, ...
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Check the equality for each subset of a string S against the target T and return a count
I wrote the following code to solve this leetcode problem:
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Python: wild card pattern matching with memoization
Here is my take on wild card pattern matching with memoization.
I would appreciate comments on clarity of the code, as well as suggested ways to improve readability and maintainability (for bigger ...
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Leetcode 10: Regular Expression Matching
Problem statement
Implement regular expression matching with support for '.' and '*'.
'.' Matches any single character.
'*' Matches zero or more of the preceding element.
The matching ...
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ADACOINS - Ada and Coins TLE (SPOJ)
Ada the Ladybug has several coins in her wallet. She is wondering, how many different values [sum of some subset of coins] is she able to make (in given range).
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Buying Apples - SPOJ
THIS is the link to the problem on SPOJ. I thought it would be better to give the link to the problem instead of me trying to explain as the question is not very clear at first sight.
I was able to ...
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Transform String a into b
You can perform the following operation on some string a:
Capitalize zero or more of a's lowercase letters at some index i (i.e., make them uppercase).
Delete all of the remaining lowercase ...
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Memoizing in PostScript
The pusherr and poperr procedures maintain an internal stack as a lisp-like
linked-list. It's a little slower than an earlier ...
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x as the sum of unique integers raised to power n
I've done this problem using recursion. But I'm not sure that could this be optimized for bigger values of x using memoization.
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Memoizing or caching Bash function results
Update: I've implemented several of the features suggested below and packaged the improved code into a dedicated project: bash-cache.
I display a number of expensive operations in my Bash prompt (e.g....
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Locating the largest Collatz Sequence with memoization
Inspired by this question I wrote a memoized form of the collatz sequence calculator.
The idea was to cache the sequence lengths for as many sequences as possible, from 0 to some value. I managed to (...
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Google Foobar Level 3 - Lucky Triples (Find the Access Codes)
I have been working on this problem for 3 days now. I wrote a piece of java code that works perfectly on my machine testing in Eclipse, but when I put it in Foobar, it either returns "Error(400) Bad ...
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Calculating the count of integer partitions of a number (uses stateful vectors internally)
I've written a Haskell function to count the number of partitions of an integer - it's basically an implementation of the same algorithm as this one, using Euler's Pentagonal Number Theorem:
$$P(n) = ...
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Binary Option Pricing using Card Game
I shuffle a deck of cards(with an equal number of red and black
cards) and start dealing them face up.
After any card you can say “stop”, at which point I pay you $1 for
every red card dealt and ...
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Multiplying two- or three-dimensional arrays with broadcasting
Background
Disclaimer: Skip if you are not interested in the background. The code is far far simpler than this.
The problem is more about programming than math. Here is the definition of ...
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Memoization via template
This is kind of follow up of this question on stack overflow...
I wrote the following to utilize memoization for functions that take a single parameter and return a value:
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Memoization with factorial in Python
I wrote a Python module to learn about memoization, and I have some questions on what I did.
How pythonic is this?
Does it make a difference if I used a class attribute instead of a function ...
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Find offset that minimizes squared difference between two vectors of different size
I am working on a project where the hotspot is some code that is supposed to find an offset, such that the squared differences between a reference vector and a given vector becomes minimal. The core ...
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Memoizing decorator with retries - now with backoff added! (Part 3)
A continuation of Memoizing decorator with retries, part 2, and related to https://codereview.stackexchange.com/a/133493/47529. I liked my decorator before, but especially in my original use case of a ...
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Memoizing decorator with retries, part 2
A while ago I asked this question Memoizing decorator that can retry and then promptly forgot about it. I more recently saw Python decorator for retrying w/exponential backoff and wanted to add ...
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Multi-function memoizator and multi-type container
I'm trying to write a multiple functions memoizator, which I've talked about here. The main problem is creating a container containing different and heterogenous functions.
I found a working solution,...
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Optimally allocating a resource with time-varying demand and cost
I'm working on the following DP which finds the optimal way to allocate a resource. At each time step I can either allocate (0.2 resources) at cost C or not in which case the storage is reduced by the ...
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Memoized Collatz sequence
Here is one of my programs that utilized memoization and array to improve performance and memory usage. The performance seems satisfactory but the memory usage is ridiculous and I can't figure out ...
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caching decorator
I came up with a caching decorator for pure functions. Is it ok? Could it be better/simpler/faster?
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Find the Nth number divisible by only 2,3,5, or 7
I recently participated in a small friendly competition and this was one of the questions:
A number whose only prime factors are 2, 3, 5 or 7 is called a humble
number. The first 20 humble ...
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Implementation of Longest Common Subsequence
So I implemented the LCS algorithm once using a 2-D matrix to store values while the other one used a python dictionary. I found the dictionary implementation was easier to implement and was a more ...
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Longest palindromic subsequence by memoization
I've written some code to solve the longest palindromic subsequence problem.
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Recursive Memoized Fibonacci in C++
I was reading an article on Wikipedia about memoization, so I wanted to try and apply it. I am fairly new to this subject, so I thought I'd start small. Does the program use memoization correctly? Is ...
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Memoized implementation of change-making algorithm
Recently, I wrote a simple program to solve the change-making problem. Rather than the tabular dynamic programming solution (described in the link), I tried to write a solution that uses memoization.
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