#leetcode#329. Longest Increasing Path in a Matrix

Given an integer matrix, find the length of the longest increasing path.

From each cell, you can either move to four directions: left, right, up or down. You may NOT move diagonally or move outside of the boundary (i.e. wrap-around is not allowed).

Example 1:

nums = [
  [9,9,4],
  [6,6,8],
  [2,1,1]
]

Return 4
The longest increasing path is [1, 2, 6, 9].

Example 2:

nums = [
  [3,4,5],
  [3,2,6],
  [2,2,1]
]

Return 4

The longest increasing path is [3, 4, 5, 6]. Moving diagonally is not allowed.

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这题第一思路是DFS，对于每个点出发都数longest increasing path，代码如下

public class Solution {
    public int longestIncreasingPath(int[][] matrix) {
        if(matrix == null || matrix.length == 0 || matrix[0].length == 0)
            return 0;
        int res = Integer.MIN_VALUE;
        int[][] cache = new int[matrix.length][matrix[0].length];
        for(int i = 0; i < matrix.length; i++){
            for(int j = 0; j < matrix[0].length; j++){
                int max = helper(matrix, i, j, Integer.MIN_VALUE, cache);
                res = Math.max(res, max);
            }
        }
        
        return res;
    }
    
    private int helper(int[][] matrix, int i, int j, int val, int[][]cache){
        if(i < 0 || i >= matrix.length || j < 0 || j >= matrix[0].length)
            return 0;
        if(cache[i][j] != 0){
            return cache[i][j];
        }
        if(matrix[i][j] <= val){
            return 0;
        }
        int up = helper(matrix, i - 1, j, matrix[i][j], cache);
        int down = helper(matrix, i + 1, j, matrix[i][j], cache);
        int left = helper(matrix, i, j - 1, matrix[i][j], cache);
        int right = helper(matrix, i, j + 1, matrix[i][j], cache);
        
        return Math.max(Math.max(up, down), Math.max(left, right)) + 1;
    }
}

时间复杂度是O(2^(m+n))

Complexity Analysis

• Time complexity :
  O(2^{m+n})
  
  The search is repeated for each valid increasing path. In the worst case we can have
  O(2^{m+n}) calls. For example:

1 23 . . . n

2 3. . .   n+1

3 . . .     n+2

.           .

.           .

.           .

m m+1. . . n+m-1

• Space complexity :
  O(mn). For each DFS we need O(h) space used by the system stack, whereh is the maximum depth of the recursion. In the worst case,  O(h) = O(mn)

怎么看出来O(2^{m+n})的呢？这里引用了leetcode解题分析的极端例子，上面那个matrix，递增只有向右或者向下2个方向，左上角的1看做binary tree的root， 那么这个tree的depth就是m+n， 复杂度就是 2^(m + n) + 2^(m + n - 1) + ... + 2^2 + 2 ^ 1.  可以看成是 m * n * 2^(m + n). m*n忽略，也就是O(2^{m+n})了，指数级，exponential.


如何优化呢？ 从[0][0]出发， 到[0][1]会做一遍从[0][1]出发的DFS，然后for循环到[0][1]后，有会做一次DFS，显然重复计算了， 所以可以用memorization来优化复杂度， 用一个二维数组int[][] cache来记录从当前位置DFS得到的longest increasing path length，存进去， 那后面再有需要到这个点遍历就可以直接取出值来用， 没有重复访问，复杂度是O(m*n);
代码如下

public class Solution {
    public int longestIncreasingPath(int[][] matrix) {
        if(matrix == null || matrix.length == 0 || matrix[0].length == 0)
            return 0;
        int res = Integer.MIN_VALUE;
        int[][] cache = new int[matrix.length][matrix[0].length];  
        for(int i = 0; i < matrix.length; i++){
            for(int j = 0; j < matrix[0].length; j++){
                int max = helper(matrix, i, j, Integer.MIN_VALUE, cache);
                res = Math.max(res, max);
            }
        }
        
        return res;
    }
    
    private int helper(int[][] matrix, int i, int j, int val, int[][]cache){
        if(i < 0 || i >= matrix.length || j < 0 || j >= matrix[0].length)
            return 0;
        if(matrix[i][j] <= val){
            return 0;
        }
        if(cache[i][j] != 0){
            return cache[i][j] + 1;
        }else{
            int up = helper(matrix, i - 1, j, matrix[i][j], cache);
            int down = helper(matrix, i + 1, j, matrix[i][j], cache);
            int left = helper(matrix, i, j - 1, matrix[i][j], cache);
            int right = helper(matrix, i, j + 1, matrix[i][j], cache);
            
            int max =  Math.max(Math.max(up, down), Math.max(left, right));
            cache[i][j] = max;
            return max + 1;
        }
    }
}