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Help -LCS of two distinct element sequences in O(nlog(n))
By Jim_Moriarty_, history, 5 years ago, In English

Two sequences A and B each of which consist of distinct elements . Find the lcs of two sequences. I have read an explanation on stack overflow but I was not able to understand. Please help with this...

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Hint: If $$$A = [1, 2, 3, ..., N]$$$, then it's easy to see that you have to compute the longest increasing subsequence of $$$B$$$.

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It can be solved using segment tree. If the numbers are not in the range 1 ~ N then compress the array.
see this problem

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Solution -
Precompute the indexes for all A[i] and store in a map.
We maintain a res[] array, where res[i] contains the result when we consider B[i] to be the last element of our LCS.
Iterate the sequence B, for each B[i] :
1) If there is no appearance of B[i] in A, skip that element.
2) Now considering this position to be the last for our LCS, only those B[i]'s can contribute to the LCS, whose value in A have appeared before the index where our current value is present in A(which is map[B[x]]).
Then for our current position(i.e. x), res[x] = max(res[0, 1, ... map[B[x]] — 1]) + 1.
So as to calculate the res[x], we need a BIT/Seg tree (coz we need to update and do max range queries).

Soln

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