Hard
Minimum Number of Moves to Make Palindrome — C++
Full explanation · Time O(nlogn) · Space O(n)
// Time: O(nlogn)
// Space: O(n)
// greedy, bit, fenwick tree
class Solution {
public:
int minMovesToMakePalindrome(string s) {
vector<vector<int>> idxs(26);
for (int i = 0; i < size(s); ++i) {
idxs[s[i] - 'a'].emplace_back(i);
}
vector<pair<int, int>> pairs;
vector<int> targets(size(s));
for (const auto& idx : idxs) {
for (int i = 0; i < size(idx) / 2; ++i) {
pairs.emplace_back(idx[i], idx[(size(idx) - 1) - i]);
}
if (size(idx) % 2) {
targets[idx[size(idx) / 2]] = size(s) / 2;
}
}
sort(begin(pairs), end(pairs));
for (int i = 0; i < size(pairs); ++i) {
targets[pairs[i].first] = i;
targets[pairs[i].second] = (size(s) - 1) - i;
}
BIT bit(size(s));
int result = 0;
for (const auto& i : targets) {
result += i - bit.query(i - 1); // move from bit.query(i-1) to i
bit.add(i, 1);
}
return result;
}
private:
class BIT {
public:
BIT(int n) : bit_(n + 1) { // 0-indexed
}
void add(int i, int val) {
++i;
for (; i < size(bit_); i += lower_bit(i)) {
bit_[i] += val;
}
}
int query(int i) const {
++i;
int total = 0;
for (; i > 0; i -= lower_bit(i)) {
total += bit_[i];
}
return total;
}
private:
int lower_bit(int i) const {
return i & -i;
}
vector<int> bit_;
};
};
// Time: O(n^2)
// Space: O(n)
// greedy
class Solution2 {
public:
int minMovesToMakePalindrome(string s) {
int result = 0;
while (!empty(s)) {
const int i = s.find(s.back());
if (i == size(s) - 1) {
result += i / 2;
} else {
result += i;
s.erase(i, 1);
}
s.pop_back();
}
return result;
}
};