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Maximum Profit in Job Scheduling

Maximum Profit in Job Scheduling: a C++ solution using dynamic programming. Learn the idea, check the complexity, and read the full code, with credit to walkccc LeetCode Solutions.

Technique
Dynamic programming
Source
walkccc LeetCode Solutions
Length
40 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

Dynamic programming

For Maximum Profit in Job Scheduling, the implementation records answers for smaller states and reuses them to build the requested result without repeating work.

  1. Define precisely what one DP state represents.
  2. Establish the base cases before transitions are evaluated.
  3. Process states in dependency order and combine only already-known values.

Code notes

  • 40 lines of C++ from the credited upstream file 1235-2.cpp.
  • The implementation visibly relies on sequence storage, cached states.
  • 3 loop blocks detected.

Complexity

Multiply the number of reachable states by the work performed for each transition, then include the stored state table in memory usage.

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

Source

Code and credit

This code comes from walkccc LeetCode Solutions by P.-Y. Chen (walkccc) and is used under the MIT licence.

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Full codeMaximum Profit in Job Scheduling · C++C++
Use this to learn the idea, then write your own version.
struct Job {  int startTime;  int endTime;  int profit;}; class Solution { public:  int jobScheduling(vector<int>& startTime, vector<int>& endTime,                    vector<int>& profit) {    const int n = startTime.size();    // dp[i] := the maximum profit to schedule jobs[i..n)    vector<int> dp(n + 1);    vector<Job> jobs;     for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i)      jobs.emplace_back(startTime[i], endTime[i], profit[i]);     ranges::sort(jobs, ranges::less{},                 [](const Job& job) { return job.startTime; });     for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i)      startTime[i] = jobs[i].startTime;     for (int i = n - 1; i >= 0; --i) {      const int j = firstGreaterEqual(startTime, i + 1, jobs[i].endTime);      const int pick = jobs[i].profit + dp[j];      const int skip = dp[i + 1];      dp[i] = max(pick, skip);    }     return dp[0];  }   int firstGreaterEqual(const vector<int>& arr, int startFrom, int target) {    return lower_bound(arr.begin() + startFrom, arr.end(), target) -           arr.begin();  }};

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