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花花酱 LeetCode 1278. Palindrome Partitioning III

You are given a string s containing lowercase letters and an integer k. You need to :

  • First, change some characters of s to other lowercase English letters.
  • Then divide s into k non-empty disjoint substrings such that each substring is palindrome.

Return the minimal number of characters that you need to change to divide the string.

Example 1:

Input: s = "abc", k = 2
Output: 1
Explanation: You can split the string into "ab" and "c", and change 1 character in "ab" to make it palindrome.

Example 2:

Input: s = "aabbc", k = 3
Output: 0
Explanation: You can split the string into "aa", "bb" and "c", all of them are palindrome.

Example 3:

Input: s = "leetcode", k = 8
Output: 0

Constraints:

  • 1 <= k <= s.length <= 100.
  • s only contains lowercase English letters.

Solution: DP

dp[i][k] := min changes to make s[0~i] into k palindromes
dp[i][k] = min(dp[j][k – 1] + cost(j + 1, i)) 0 <= j < i

ans = dp[n-1][K]

Time complexity: O(n^2 * K) = O(n^3)
Space complexity: O(n*n + n*K) = O(n^2)

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