1143. Longest Common Subsequence

  • Hardness: \(\color{orange}\textsf{Medium}\)
  • Ralated Topics: StringDynamic Programming

一、題目

Given two strings text1 and text2, return the length of their longest common subsequence. If there is no common subsequence, return 0. A subsequence of a string is a new string generated from the original string with some characters (can be none) deleted without changing the relative order of the remaining characters.

  • For example, "ace" is a subsequence of "abcde". A common subsequence of two strings is a subsequence that is common to both strings.

Example 1:

  • Input: text1 = “abcde”, text2 = “ace”
  • Output: 3
  • Explanation: The longest common subsequence is “ace” and its length is 3.

Example 2:

  • Input: text1 = “abc”, text2 = “abc”
  • Output: 3
  • Explanation: The longest common subsequence is “abc” and its length is 3.

Example 3:

  • Input: text1 = “abc”, text2 = “def”
  • Output: 0
  • Explanation: There is no such common subsequence, so the result is 0.

Constraints:

  • 1 <= text1.length, text2.length <= 1000
  • text1 and text2 consist of only lowercase English characters.

二、分析

  • 雙序列型的動態規劃問題。或我習慣稱作 LCS 型。
    • 定義 dp[i][j]s[1:i]t[1:j] 的 LCS 長度。
    • 利用s[i]t[j],使dp[i][j]dp[i-1][j]dp[i][j-1]dp[i-1][j-1] 產生關聯。
      • 遍歷兩層迴圈,核心以從 s[i]t[j] 的關係作破口,對 dp[i][j] 作轉移。
      • s[i] == t[j] 時,dp[i][j] = dp[i-1][j-1]
      • 相反則,dp[i][j] = max(dp[i-1], dp[j-1]
    • 最後解為 dp[m][n]ms 的長度,nt 的長度。

三、解題

1. DP

  • Time complexity: \(O(m\times n)\)
  • Space complexity: \(O(m\times n)\)
int longestCommonSubsequence(string text1, string text2) {
        int m = text1.length(), n = text2.length();
        vector<vector<int>> dp(m+1, vector<int>(n+1, 0));
        for (int i = 1; i <= m; i++) {
            for (int j = 1; j <= n; j++) {
                if (text1[i-1] == text2[j-1])
                    dp[i][j] = dp[i-1][j-1] + 1;
                else
                    dp[i][j] = max(dp[i-1][j], dp[i][j-1]);
            }
        }
        return dp[m][n];
    }

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