Leetcode: Longest Increasing Subsequence

Question

Given an unsorted array of integers, find the length of longest increasing subsequence.

For example,
Given [10, 9, 2, 5, 3, 7, 101, 18],
The longest increasing subsequence is [2, 3, 7, 101], therefore the length is 4. Note that there may be more than one LIS combination, it is only necessary for you to return the length.

Your algorithm should run in O(n2) complexity.

Follow up: Could you improve it to O(n log n) time complexity?

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

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Solution 1

time complexity: O( n2)

class Solution(object):    def lengthOfLIS(self, nums):        """        :type nums: List[int]        :rtype: int        """        res = 0        if nums==[]:            return res        dp = [1]*len(nums)        for ind in range(1,len(nums)):            for j in range(ind):                if nums[j]<=nums[ind] and dp[j]+1>dp[ind]:                    dp[ind] = dp[j] + 1            res = max( res, dp[ind] )        return res

It will cause “Exceed Time Limit”

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Solution 2

Time complexity: O(nlogn)

class Solution(object):    def lengthOfLIS(self, nums):        """        :type nums: List[int]        :rtype: int        """        res = 0         if nums==[]:            return res        temp = []        temp.append(nums[0])        res = 1        for ind in range(1,len(nums)):            left, right = 0, res-1            while left<=right:                #print 'left,right: ', left , right                mid = (left+right)/2                #print temp,mid, ind                if temp[mid]<nums[ind]:                    left = mid + 1                else:                    right = mid - 1            #print 'after binary search: ', left            if left<len(temp):                temp[left] = nums[ind]            else:                temp.append(nums[ind])            if left>=res:                res += 1        return res