Questions tagged [greedy]
A greedy algorithm is an algorithm that follows the problem solving heuristic of making the locally optimal choice at each stage with the hope of finding a global optimum.
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Minimum Platform Problem, basically aim it to find max no of overlaps
Given arrival and departure times of all trains that reach a railway station. Find the minimum number of platforms required for the railway station so that no train is kept waiting.
Consider that all ...
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Is there a simple way of sorting a vector based on 2 others without losing the original index of the elements in C++?
Given an array of elements, I've got two arrays that contain data identifying each element. For example, element number k is identified by the value contained in position k of both of the arrays. ...
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DynamicProgramming Proble,
Problem Link :https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/problems/count-numbers-containing-43022/1
Problem Description : You are given a number n, Return the count of total numbers from 1 to n containing 4 as a ...
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Reduce the sum of differences between adjacent array elements
I came across a coding challenge on the internet the question is listed below:
Have the function FoodDistribution(arr) read the array of numbers
stored in arr which will represent the hunger level of ...
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fusing inner lists within list function to return highest possible integer dynamic programming
new to programming and currently trying to challenge myself and learn dynamic programming. I have this question to implement a function that takes an array and outputs the 'highest cuteness' of the ...
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Is gradient descent a greedy algorithm?
Gradient/steepest descent iteratively makes locally optimal decisions to minimize a function. At each iteration, it adjusts the parameters in the direction that minimizes the function the most, based ...
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Example where the greedy approach fails for minimum vertex cover problem
A greedy algorithm to find a vertex cover for a given graph would be to greedily select the vertex with the maximum degree and add it to the vertex cover set. Remove the node and all its edges from ...
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How do i slice an array into m groups and minimize the sum of elements of largest slice? [duplicate]
I want to slice an array into m groups and minimize the sum of elements of largest slice while respecting to the order of elements in array.
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elements: 13.85 22.15 11.84 7.85 12.15 11.09
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Optimizing Product Allocation to Baskets
I am currently facing a challenge in devising an algorithm that optimally solves the following task:
We have a set of products, each associated with specific baskets they can be placed into. For ...
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Assign visually distinct colors to graphs with undirected edges
Given a graph G with V nodes and V different colors, I would like to assign colors to these nodes such that the color assigned to a node is as visually distinct as it can get from all of its neighbors....
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Finding the maximum concatenate number from the list of numbers provided
Problem Statement :
Input Format : First line of the input contains an integer n. Second line of inputs contains the n array elements
Output format : The largest number that can be composed using all ...
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Time complexity of Rectangle Covering algorithm
I have a task to submit on greedy algorithms. I wrote this code but I'm not sure what the time complexity of the algorithm is. This problem called "Rectangle Covering".
This is the code:
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Can't solve optimization problem using greedy algorithm
I encountered a problem during a company's online assessment a few months ago and I'm still struggling to solve it. The problem involves optimizing the purchase of items over a certain number of days ...
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Why is the program NOT stuck in an infinite loop?
Noob question here.
I've just started to learn programming, and I've taken the cs50 course. I've done the first 3 problems from the problem set 1 in C, but I don't understand why in my 3rd program, ...
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Minimum Time to Perform One Task of Each Category (with Different Release Times)
I've recently taken an OA in which you needed to write an algorithm for finding the earliest time at which you were able to complete one task from each category. Each task has a duration and a time at ...
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