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花花酱 LeetCode 460. LFU Cache

Problem:

Design and implement a data structure for Least Frequently Used (LFU) cache. It should support the following operations: get and put.

get(key) – Get the value (will always be positive) of the key if the key exists in the cache, otherwise return -1.
put(key, value) – Set or insert the value if the key is not already present. When the cache reaches its capacity, it should invalidate the least frequently used item before inserting a new item. For the purpose of this problem, when there is a tie (i.e., two or more keys that have the same frequency), the least recently used key would be evicted.

Follow up:
Could you do both operations in O(1) time complexity?

Example:

Idea:
Hashtable + balanced search tree
Hashtable + double linked list
Solution 1: O(logc) c is the capacity

Solution 2: O(1)

 

花花酱 LeetCode 451. Sort Characters By Frequency

Problem:

Given a string, sort it in decreasing order based on the frequency of characters.

Example 1:

Input:
“tree”

Output:
“eert”

Explanation:
‘e’ appears twice while ‘r’ and ‘t’ both appear once.
So ‘e’ must appear before both ‘r’ and ‘t’. Therefore “eetr” is also a valid answer.
Example 2:

Input:
“cccaaa”

Output:
“cccaaa”

Explanation:
Both ‘c’ and ‘a’ appear three times, so “aaaccc” is also a valid answer.
Note that “cacaca” is incorrect, as the same characters must be together.
Example 3:

Input:
“Aabb”

Output:
“bbAa”

Explanation:
“bbaA” is also a valid answer, but “Aabb” is incorrect.
Note that ‘A’ and ‘a’ are treated as two different characters.

 

Idea:

Counting sort

 

Solution 1: 

Sort the string based on element frequency

 

Solution 2:

Counting sort

 

花花酱 LeetCode 332. Reconstruct Itinerary

Problem:

Given a list of airline tickets represented by pairs of departure and arrival airports [from, to], reconstruct the itinerary in order. All of the tickets belong to a man who departs from JFK. Thus, the itinerary must begin with JFK.

Note:

  1. If there are multiple valid itineraries, you should return the itinerary that has the smallest lexical order when read as a single string. For example, the itinerary ["JFK", "LGA"] has a smaller lexical order than ["JFK", "LGB"].
  2. All airports are represented by three capital letters (IATA code).
  3. You may assume all tickets form at least one valid itinerary.

Example 1:
tickets = [["MUC", "LHR"], ["JFK", "MUC"], ["SFO", "SJC"], ["LHR", "SFO"]]
Return ["JFK", "MUC", "LHR", "SFO", "SJC"].

Example 2:
tickets = [["JFK","SFO"],["JFK","ATL"],["SFO","ATL"],["ATL","JFK"],["ATL","SFO"]]
Return ["JFK","ATL","JFK","SFO","ATL","SFO"].
Another possible reconstruction is ["JFK","SFO","ATL","JFK","ATL","SFO"]. But it is larger in lexical order.

 

Idea:

Convert the graph to a tree and do post-order traversal

 Solution:

 

花花酱 LeetCode 295. Find Median from Data Stream O(logn) + O(1)

Problem:

Median is the middle value in an ordered integer list. If the size of the list is even, there is no middle value. So the median is the mean of the two middle value.

Examples:

[2,3,4] , the median is 3

[2,3], the median is (2 + 3) / 2 = 2.5

Design a data structure that supports the following two operations:

  • void addNum(int num) – Add a integer number from the data stream to the data structure.
  • double findMedian() – Return the median of all elements so far.

For example:

 

Idea:

  1. Min/Max heap
  2. Balanced binary search tree

Time Complexity:

add(num): O(logn)

findMedian(): O(logn)

Solution1:

 

Solution 2:

 

Related Problems

花花酱 LeetCode 146. LRU Cache O(1)

Problem:

Design and implement a data structure for Least Recently Used (LRU) cache. It should support the following operations: get and put.

get(key) – Get the value (will always be positive) of the key if the key exists in the cache, otherwise return -1.
put(key, value) – Set or insert the value if the key is not already present. When the cache reached its capacity, it should invalidate the least recently used item before inserting a new item.

Follow up:
Could you do both operations in O(1) time complexity?

Example:

Idea:
Use Hashtable for fast mapping and double linked list for fast manipulation.
Time Complexity:
Put O(1)
Get O(1)
Solution: