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2742. Painting the Walls

Description

You are given two 0-indexed integer arrays, cost and time, of size n representing the costs and the time taken to paint n different walls respectively. There are two painters available:

  • A paid painter that paints the ith wall in time[i] units of time and takes cost[i] units of money.
  • A free painter that paints any wall in 1 unit of time at a cost of 0. But the free painter can only be used if the paid painter is already occupied.

Return the minimum amount of money required to paint the n walls.

 

Example 1:

Input: cost = [1,2,3,2], time = [1,2,3,2]
Output: 3
Explanation: The walls at index 0 and 1 will be painted by the paid painter, and it will take 3 units of time; meanwhile, the free painter will paint the walls at index 2 and 3, free of cost in 2 units of time. Thus, the total cost is 1 + 2 = 3.

Example 2:

Input: cost = [2,3,4,2], time = [1,1,1,1]
Output: 4
Explanation: The walls at index 0 and 3 will be painted by the paid painter, and it will take 2 units of time; meanwhile, the free painter will paint the walls at index 1 and 2, free of cost in 2 units of time. Thus, the total cost is 2 + 2 = 4.

 

Constraints:

  • 1 <= cost.length <= 500
  • cost.length == time.length
  • 1 <= cost[i] <= 106
  • 1 <= time[i] <= 500

Solutions

Solution 1: Memorization

We can consider whether each wall is painted by a paid painter or a free painter. Design a function $dfs(i, j)$, which means that from the $i$th wall, and the current remaining free painter working time is $j$, the minimum cost of painting all the remaining walls. Then the answer is $dfs(0, 0)$.

The calculation process of function $dfs(i, j)$ is as follows:

  • If $n - i \le j$, it means that there are no more walls than the free painter’s working time, so the remaining walls are painted by the free painter, and the cost is $0$;
  • If $i \ge n$, return $+\infty$;
  • Otherwise, if the $i$th wall is painted by a paid painter, the cost is $cost[i]$, then $dfs(i, j) = dfs(i + 1, j + time[i]) + cost[i]$; if the $i$th wall is painted by a free painter, the cost is $0$, then $dfs(i, j) = dfs(i + 1, j - 1)$.

Note that the parameter $j$ may be less than $0$. Therefore, in the actual coding process, except for the $Python$ language, we add an offset $n$ to $j$ so that the range of $j$ is $[0, 2n]$.

Time complexity $O(n^2)$, space complexity $O(n^2)$. Where $n$ is the length of the array.

  • class Solution {
        private int n;
        private int[] cost;
        private int[] time;
        private Integer[][] f;
    
        public int paintWalls(int[] cost, int[] time) {
            n = cost.length;
            this.cost = cost;
            this.time = time;
            f = new Integer[n][n << 1 | 1];
            return dfs(0, n);
        }
    
        private int dfs(int i, int j) {
            if (n - i <= j - n) {
                return 0;
            }
            if (i >= n) {
                return 1 << 30;
            }
            if (f[i][j] == null) {
                f[i][j] = Math.min(dfs(i + 1, j + time[i]) + cost[i], dfs(i + 1, j - 1));
            }
            return f[i][j];
        }
    }
    
  • class Solution {
    public:
        int paintWalls(vector<int>& cost, vector<int>& time) {
            int n = cost.size();
            int f[n][n << 1 | 1];
            memset(f, -1, sizeof(f));
            function<int(int, int)> dfs = [&](int i, int j) -> int {
                if (n - i <= j - n) {
                    return 0;
                }
                if (i >= n) {
                    return 1 << 30;
                }
                if (f[i][j] == -1) {
                    f[i][j] = min(dfs(i + 1, j + time[i]) + cost[i], dfs(i + 1, j - 1));
                }
                return f[i][j];
            };
            return dfs(0, n);
        }
    };
    
  • class Solution:
        def paintWalls(self, cost: List[int], time: List[int]) -> int:
            @cache
            def dfs(i: int, j: int) -> int:
                if n - i <= j:
                    return 0
                if i >= n:
                    return inf
                return min(dfs(i + 1, j + time[i]) + cost[i], dfs(i + 1, j - 1))
    
            n = len(cost)
            return dfs(0, 0)
    
    
  • func paintWalls(cost []int, time []int) int {
    	n := len(cost)
    	f := make([][]int, n)
    	for i := range f {
    		f[i] = make([]int, n<<1|1)
    		for j := range f[i] {
    			f[i][j] = -1
    		}
    	}
    	var dfs func(i, j int) int
    	dfs = func(i, j int) int {
    		if n-i <= j-n {
    			return 0
    		}
    		if i >= n {
    			return 1 << 30
    		}
    		if f[i][j] == -1 {
    			f[i][j] = min(dfs(i+1, j+time[i])+cost[i], dfs(i+1, j-1))
    		}
    		return f[i][j]
    	}
    	return dfs(0, n)
    }
    
    func min(a, b int) int {
    	if a < b {
    		return a
    	}
    	return b
    }
    
  • impl Solution {
        #[allow(dead_code)]
        pub fn paint_walls(cost: Vec<i32>, time: Vec<i32>) -> i32 {
            let n = cost.len();
            let mut record_vec: Vec<Vec<i32>> = vec![vec![-1; n << 1 | 1]; n];
            Self::dfs(&mut record_vec, 0, n as i32, n as i32, &time, &cost)
        }
    
        #[allow(dead_code)]
        fn dfs(record_vec: &mut Vec<Vec<i32>>, i: i32, j: i32, n: i32, time: &Vec<i32>, cost: &Vec<i32>) -> i32 {
            if n - i <= j - n {
                // All the remaining walls can be printed at no cost
                // Just return 0
                return 0;
            }
            if i >= n {
                // No way this case can be achieved
                // Just return +INF
                return 1 << 30;
            }
            if record_vec[i as usize][j as usize] == -1 {
                // This record hasn't been written
                record_vec[i as usize][j as usize] = std::cmp::min(
                    Self::dfs(record_vec, i + 1, j + time[i as usize], n, time, cost) + cost[i as usize],
                    Self::dfs(record_vec, i + 1, j - 1, n, time, cost)
                );
            }
            record_vec[i as usize][j as usize]
        }
    }
    

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