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3077. Maximum Strength of K Disjoint Subarrays

Description

You are given a 0-indexed array of integers nums of length n, and a positive odd integer k.

The strength of x subarrays is defined as strength = sum[1] * x - sum[2] * (x - 1) + sum[3] * (x - 2) - sum[4] * (x - 3) + ... + sum[x] * 1 where sum[i] is the sum of the elements in the ith subarray. Formally, strength is sum of (-1)i+1 * sum[i] * (x - i + 1) over all i's such that 1 <= i <= x.

You need to select k disjoint subarrays from nums, such that their strength is maximum.

Return the maximum possible strength that can be obtained.

Note that the selected subarrays don't need to cover the entire array.

 

Example 1:

Input: nums = [1,2,3,-1,2], k = 3
Output: 22
Explanation: The best possible way to select 3 subarrays is: nums[0..2], nums[3..3], and nums[4..4]. The strength is (1 + 2 + 3) * 3 - (-1) * 2 + 2 * 1 = 22.

Example 2:

Input: nums = [12,-2,-2,-2,-2], k = 5
Output: 64
Explanation: The only possible way to select 5 disjoint subarrays is: nums[0..0], nums[1..1], nums[2..2], nums[3..3], and nums[4..4]. The strength is 12 * 5 - (-2) * 4 + (-2) * 3 - (-2) * 2 + (-2) * 1 = 64.

Example 3:

Input: nums = [-1,-2,-3], k = 1
Output: -1
Explanation: The best possible way to select 1 subarray is: nums[0..0]. The strength is -1.

 

Constraints:

  • 1 <= n <= 104
  • -109 <= nums[i] <= 109
  • 1 <= k <= n
  • 1 <= n * k <= 106
  • k is odd.

Solutions

Solution 1: Dynamic Programming

For the $i$th number $nums[i - 1]$, if it is selected and is in the $j$th subarray, then its contribution to the answer is $nums[i - 1] \times (k - j + 1) \times (-1)^{j+1}$. We denote $(-1)^{j+1}$ as $sign$, so its contribution to the answer is $sign \times nums[i - 1] \times (k - j + 1)$.

We define $f[i][j][0]$ as the maximum energy value when selecting $j$ subarrays from the first $i$ numbers, and the $i$th number is not selected. We define $f[i][j][1]$ as the maximum energy value when selecting $j$ subarrays from the first $i$ numbers, and the $i$th number is selected. Initially, $f[0][0][1] = 0$, and the rest of the values are $-\infty$.

When $i > 0$, we consider how $f[i][j]$ transitions.

If the $i$th number is not selected, then the $i-1$th number can either be selected or not selected, so $f[i][j][0] = \max(f[i-1][j][0], f[i-1][j][1])$.

If the $i$th number is selected, if the $i-1$th number and the $i$th number are in the same subarray, then $f[i][j][1] = \max(f[i][j][1], f[i-1][j][1] + sign \times nums[i-1] \times (k - j + 1))$, otherwise $f[i][j][1] = \max(f[i][j][1], \max(f[i-1][j-1][0], f[i-1][j-1][1]) + sign \times nums[i-1] \times (k - j + 1))$.

The final answer is $\max(f[n][k][0], f[n][k][1])$.

The time complexity is $O(n \times k)$, and the space complexity is $O(n \times k)$. Where $n$ is the length of the array $nums$.

  • class Solution {
        public long maximumStrength(int[] nums, int k) {
            int n = nums.length;
            long[][][] f = new long[n + 1][k + 1][2];
            for (int i = 0; i <= n; i++) {
                for (int j = 0; j <= k; j++) {
                    Arrays.fill(f[i][j], Long.MIN_VALUE / 2);
                }
            }
            f[0][0][0] = 0;
            for (int i = 1; i <= n; i++) {
                int x = nums[i - 1];
                for (int j = 0; j <= k; j++) {
                    long sign = (j & 1) == 1 ? 1 : -1;
                    long val = sign * x * (k - j + 1);
                    f[i][j][0] = Math.max(f[i - 1][j][0], f[i - 1][j][1]);
                    f[i][j][1] = Math.max(f[i][j][1], f[i - 1][j][1] + val);
                    if (j > 0) {
                        long t = Math.max(f[i - 1][j - 1][0], f[i - 1][j - 1][1]) + val;
                        f[i][j][1] = Math.max(f[i][j][1], t);
                    }
                }
            }
            return Math.max(f[n][k][0], f[n][k][1]);
        }
    }
    
    
  • class Solution {
    public:
        long long maximumStrength(vector<int>& nums, int k) {
            int n = nums.size();
            long long f[n + 1][k + 1][2];
            memset(f, -0x3f3f3f3f3f3f3f3f, sizeof(f));
            f[0][0][0] = 0;
            for (int i = 1; i <= n; i++) {
                int x = nums[i - 1];
                for (int j = 0; j <= k; j++) {
                    long long sign = (j & 1) == 1 ? 1 : -1;
                    long long val = sign * x * (k - j + 1);
                    f[i][j][0] = max(f[i - 1][j][0], f[i - 1][j][1]);
                    f[i][j][1] = max(f[i][j][1], f[i - 1][j][1] + val);
                    if (j > 0) {
                        long long t = max(f[i - 1][j - 1][0], f[i - 1][j - 1][1]) + val;
                        f[i][j][1] = max(f[i][j][1], t);
                    }
                }
            }
            return max(f[n][k][0], f[n][k][1]);
        }
    };
    
  • class Solution:
        def maximumStrength(self, nums: List[int], k: int) -> int:
            n = len(nums)
            f = [[[-inf, -inf] for _ in range(k + 1)] for _ in range(n + 1)]
            f[0][0][0] = 0
            for i, x in enumerate(nums, 1):
                for j in range(k + 1):
                    sign = 1 if j & 1 else -1
                    f[i][j][0] = max(f[i - 1][j][0], f[i - 1][j][1])
                    f[i][j][1] = max(f[i][j][1], f[i - 1][j][1] + sign * x * (k - j + 1))
                    if j:
                        f[i][j][1] = max(
                            f[i][j][1], max(f[i - 1][j - 1]) + sign * x * (k - j + 1)
                        )
            return max(f[n][k])
    
    
  • func maximumStrength(nums []int, k int) int64 {
    	n := len(nums)
    	f := make([][][]int64, n+1)
    	const inf int64 = math.MinInt64 / 2
    	for i := range f {
    		f[i] = make([][]int64, k+1)
    		for j := range f[i] {
    			f[i][j] = []int64{inf, inf}
    		}
    	}
    	f[0][0][0] = 0
    	for i := 1; i <= n; i++ {
    		x := nums[i-1]
    		for j := 0; j <= k; j++ {
    			sign := int64(-1)
    			if j&1 == 1 {
    				sign = 1
    			}
    			val := sign * int64(x) * int64(k-j+1)
    			f[i][j][0] = max(f[i-1][j][0], f[i-1][j][1])
    			f[i][j][1] = max(f[i][j][1], f[i-1][j][1]+val)
    			if j > 0 {
    				t := max(f[i-1][j-1][0], f[i-1][j-1][1]) + val
    				f[i][j][1] = max(f[i][j][1], t)
    			}
    		}
    	}
    	return max(f[n][k][0], f[n][k][1])
    }
    
  • function maximumStrength(nums: number[], k: number): number {
        const n: number = nums.length;
        const f: number[][][] = Array.from({ length: n + 1 }, () =>
            Array.from({ length: k + 1 }, () => [-Infinity, -Infinity]),
        );
        f[0][0][0] = 0;
        for (let i = 1; i <= n; i++) {
            const x: number = nums[i - 1];
            for (let j = 0; j <= k; j++) {
                const sign: number = (j & 1) === 1 ? 1 : -1;
                const val: number = sign * x * (k - j + 1);
                f[i][j][0] = Math.max(f[i - 1][j][0], f[i - 1][j][1]);
                f[i][j][1] = Math.max(f[i][j][1], f[i - 1][j][1] + val);
                if (j > 0) {
                    f[i][j][1] = Math.max(f[i][j][1], Math.max(...f[i - 1][j - 1]) + val);
                }
            }
        }
        return Math.max(...f[n][k]);
    }
    
    

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