Leetcode: Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock IV

Question

Say you have an array for which the ith element is the price of a given stock on day i.

Design an algorithm to find the maximum profit. You may complete at most k transactions.

Note:
You may not engage in multiple transactions at the same time (ie, you must sell the stock before you buy again).

Credits:
Special thanks to @Freezen for adding this problem and creating all test cases.

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Wrong Solution

class Solution(object):
    def maxProfit(self, k, prices):
        """
        :type k: int
        :type prices: List[int]
        :rtype: int
        """

        if k<=0 or prices==[]:
            return 0

        globalv = [[0]*(k+1) for ind in range(len(prices))]        
        localv = [[0]*(k+1) for ind in range(len(prices))]

        for i in range(len(prices)):
            diff = prices[i] - prices[i-1]
            for j in range(1,k+1):
                localv[i][j]  = max( globalv[i-1][j-1] + max(diff,0),  localv[i-1][j]+diff )
                globalv[i][j] = max( globalv[i-1][j], localv[i][j] )

        return globalv[len(prices)-1][k]

Runtime Error since space complexity O(n*k)

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My first try

class Solution(object):
    def maxProfit(self, k, prices):
        """
        :type k: int
        :type prices: List[int]
        :rtype: int
        """

        if k<=0 or prices==[]:
            return 0

        if k>=len(prices):
            return self.maxprofit2(prices)

        globalv = [0]*(k+1)     
        localv = [0]*(k+1)

        for i in range(1,len(prices)):
            diff = prices[i] - prices[i-1]
            for j in range(1,k+1):
                localv[j]  = max( globalv[j-1] + max(diff,0),  localv[j]+diff )
                globalv[j] = max( globalv[j], localv[j] )

        return globalv[k]


    def maxprofit2(self,prices):
        maxv = 0
        for ind in range(1,len(prices)):
            if prices[ind]>prices[ind-1]:
                maxv += prices[ind]-prices[ind-1]

        return maxv

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Solution 1

time complexity: O(n*k)
space complexity: O(k)

Get idea from here1, here2, here3, here4

class Solution(object):
    def maxProfit(self, k, prices):
        """
        :type k: int
        :type prices: List[int]
        :rtype: int
        """

        if k<=0 or prices==[]:
            return 0

        if k>=len(prices):
            return self.maxprofit2(prices)

        globalv = [0]*(k+1)     
        localv = [0]*(k+1)

        for i in range(1,len(prices)):
            diff = prices[i] - prices[i-1]
            for j in range(k,0,-1):
                localv[j]  = max( globalv[j-1] + max(diff,0),  localv[j]+diff )
                globalv[j] = max( globalv[j], localv[j] )

        return globalv[k]


    def maxprofit2(self,prices):
        maxv = 0
        for ind in range(1,len(prices)):
            if prices[ind]>prices[ind-1]:
                maxv += prices[ind]-prices[ind-1]

        return maxv

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Solution 2

Get idea from here