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花花酱 LeetCode Disjoint set / Union Find Forest SP1

Disjoint-set/Union-find Forest

Find(x): find the root/cluster-id of x

Union(x, y): merge two clusters

Check whether two elements are in the same set or not in O(1)*.

Find: O(ɑ(n))* ≈ O(1)

Union: O(ɑ(n))* ≈ O(1)

Space: O(n)

Without optimization: Find: O(n)

Two key optimizations:

  1. Path compression: make tree flat
  2. Union by rank: merge low rank tree to high rank one

*: amortized

ɑ(.): inverse Ackermann function

 

Implementations:

C++

Java

Python

Union-Find Problems

References

花花酱 LeetCode 737. Sentence Similarity II

Problem:

Given two sentences words1, words2 (each represented as an array of strings), and a list of similar word pairs pairs, determine if two sentences are similar.

For example, words1 = ["great", "acting", "skills"] and words2 = ["fine", "drama", "talent"] are similar, if the similar word pairs are pairs = [["great", "good"], ["fine", "good"], ["acting","drama"], ["skills","talent"]].

Note that the similarity relation is transitive. For example, if “great” and “good” are similar, and “fine” and “good” are similar, then “great” and “fine” are similar.

Similarity is also symmetric. For example, “great” and “fine” being similar is the same as “fine” and “great” being similar.

Also, a word is always similar with itself. For example, the sentences words1 = ["great"], words2 = ["great"], pairs = [] are similar, even though there are no specified similar word pairs.

Finally, sentences can only be similar if they have the same number of words. So a sentence like words1 = ["great"] can never be similar to words2 = ["doubleplus","good"].

Note:

  • The length of words1 and words2 will not exceed 1000.
  • The length of pairs will not exceed 2000.
  • The length of each pairs[i] will be 2.
  • The length of each words[i] and pairs[i][j] will be in the range [1, 20].


题目大意:

给你两个句子(由单词数组表示)和一些近义词对,问你这两个句子是否相似,即每组相对应的单词都要相似。

注意相似性可以传递,比如只给你”great”和”fine”相似、”fine”和”good”相似,能推断”great”和”good”也相似。

Idea:

DFS / Union Find

Solution1:

Time complexity: O(|Pairs| * |words1|)

Space complexity: O(|Pairs|)

C++ / DFS

Time complexity: O(|Pairs| + |words1|)

Space complexity: O(|Pairs|)

C++ / DFS Optimized

 

Solution2:

Time complexity: O(|Pairs| + |words1|)

Space complexity: O(|Pairs|)

C++ / Union Find

 

C++ / Union Find, Optimized

Related Problems:

花花酱 LeetCode 685. Redundant Connection II

Problem:

In this problem, a rooted tree is a directed graph such that, there is exactly one node (the root) for which all other nodes are descendants of this node, plus every node has exactly one parent, except for the root node which has no parents.

The given input is a directed graph that started as a rooted tree with N nodes (with distinct values 1, 2, …, N), with one additional directed edge added. The added edge has two different vertices chosen from 1 to N, and was not an edge that already existed.

The resulting graph is given as a 2D-array of edges. Each element of edges is a pair [u, v] that represents a directed edge connecting nodes u and v, where u is a parent of child v.

Return an edge that can be removed so that the resulting graph is a rooted tree of N nodes. If there are multiple answers, return the answer that occurs last in the given 2D-array.

Example 1:

Example 2:

Note:

 

  • The size of the input 2D-array will be between 3 and 1000.
  • Every integer represented in the 2D-array will be between 1 and N, where N is the size of the input array.



Idea:

Union Find

Time complexity: O(nlog*n) ~ O(n)

Space complexity: O(n)

Solution:

C++

 

C++ / without using Union find

 

Python

 

花花酱 LeetCode 684. Redundant Connection

https://leetcode.com/problems/redundant-connection/description/

Problem:

In this problem, a tree is an undirected graph that is connected and has no cycles.

The given input is a graph that started as a tree with N nodes (with distinct values 1, 2, …, N), with one additional edge added. The added edge has two different vertices chosen from 1 to N, and was not an edge that already existed.

The resulting graph is given as a 2D-array of edges. Each element of edges is a pair [u, v] with u < v, that represents an undirected edge connecting nodes u and v.

Return an edge that can be removed so that the resulting graph is a tree of N nodes. If there are multiple answers, return the answer that occurs last in the given 2D-array. The answer edge [u, v] should be in the same format, with u < v.

Example 1:

Example 2:

Note:

 

  • The size of the input 2D-array will be between 3 and 1000.
  • Every integer represented in the 2D-array will be between 1 and N, where N is the size of the input array.



Idea:
DFS / Union-Find

 

Solutions:

C++ / DFS

 

C++ / Union Find

Java / Union Find

 

Python: Union Find

Python / Union Find V2

 

 

花花酱 LeetCode 547. Friend Circles

Problem:

There are N students in a class. Some of them are friends, while some are not. Their friendship is transitive in nature. For example, if A is a direct friend of B, and B is a direct friend of C, then A is an indirect friend of C. And we defined a friend circle is a group of students who are direct or indirect friends.

Given a N*N matrix M representing the friend relationship between students in the class. If M[i][j] = 1, then the ithand jth students are direct friends with each other, otherwise not. And you have to output the total number of friend circles among all the students.

Example 1:

Example 2:

  1. N is in range [1,200].
  2. M[i][i] = 1 for all students.
  3. If M[i][j] = 1, then M[j][i] = 1.

Idea:

Find all connected components using DFS



Solution: DFS

C++

Java

Python

Solution 2: Union Find

C++

 

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