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Frequency Balance Subarray

Frequency Balance Subarray: a Python solution using sliding window or two pointers. Learn the idea, check the complexity, and read the full code, with credit to Kamyu LeetCode Solutions.

Technique
Sliding window or two pointers
Source
Kamyu LeetCode Solutions
Length
67 lines
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Try the problem first. If you get stuck, read the approach below, then write your own solution. The full code is at the bottom.

Approach

Sliding window or two pointers

For Frequency Balance Subarray, the implementation maintains a moving interval and updates only the information that enters or leaves the window.

  1. Choose the invariant that makes a window valid or useful.
  2. Advance the right boundary and add the new element.
  3. Move the left boundary only as needed while maintaining the invariant and updating the answer.

Code notes

  • 67 lines of Python from the credited upstream file frequency-balance-subarray.py.
  • The implementation visibly relies on sequence storage, hash lookup, ordered lookup.
  • No explicit loop blocks detected.

Complexity

Confirm that neither pointer moves backwards; if so, the scan is usually linear apart from the window’s data-structure operations.

Check the problem constraints before deciding whether this complexity will pass.

Source

Code and credit

This code comes from Kamyu LeetCode Solutions by kamyu104 and is used under the MIT licence.

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Full codeFrequency Balance Subarray · PythonPython
Use this to learn the idea, then write your own version.
# Time:  O(n^2)# Space: O(n) # sort, coordinate compression, freq tableclass Solution(object):    def getLength(self, nums):        """        :type nums: List[int]        :rtype: int        """        val_to_idx = {x:i for i, x in enumerate(sorted(set(nums)))}        arr = [val_to_idx[x] for x in nums]        result = 0        for left in xrange(len(arr)):            cnt, cnt2 = [0]*len(arr), [0]*(len(arr)+1)            distinct = total = c = 0            for right in xrange(left, len(arr)):                if cnt[arr[right]]:                    cnt2[cnt[arr[right]]] -= 1                    if cnt2[cnt[arr[right]]] == 0:                        c -= 1                        total -= cnt[arr[right]]                cnt[arr[right]] += 1                if cnt[arr[right]] == 1:                    distinct += 1                cnt2[cnt[arr[right]]] += 1                if cnt2[cnt[arr[right]]] == 1:                    total += cnt[arr[right]]                    c += 1                if distinct == 1 or (c == 2 and total%3 == 0 and cnt2[total//3]):                    result = max(result, right-left+1)        return result  # Time:  O(n^2)# Space: O(n)import collections  # freq tableclass Solution2(object):    def getLength(self, nums):        """        :type nums: List[int]        :rtype: int        """        result = 0        for left in xrange(len(nums)):            cnt, cnt2 = collections.defaultdict(int), collections.defaultdict(int)            distinct = total = c = 0            for right in xrange(left, len(nums)):                if cnt[nums[right]]:                    cnt2[cnt[nums[right]]] -= 1                    if cnt2[cnt[nums[right]]] == 0:                        c -= 1                        total -= cnt[nums[right]]                cnt[nums[right]] += 1                if cnt[nums[right]] == 1:                    distinct += 1                cnt2[cnt[nums[right]]] += 1                if cnt2[cnt[nums[right]]] == 1:                    total += cnt[nums[right]]                    c += 1                if distinct == 1 or (c == 2 and total%3 == 0 and cnt2[total//3]):                    result = max(result, right-left+1)        return result

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