Can anyone walk me through this solution below? What does p mean? why its range j-1 to i? Thanks Given an array of integers and a number k, find k non-overlapping subarrays which have the largest sum.
The number in each subarray should be contiguous.
Return the largest sum.
according to this blog(http://www.cnblogs.com/lishiblog/p/4183917.html), the DP analysis is
DP. d[i][j] means the maximum sum we can get by selecting j subarrays from the first i elements.
d[i][j] = max{d[p][j-1]+maxSubArray(p+1,i)}
we iterate p from i-1 to j-1, so we can record the max subarray we get at current p, this value can be used to calculate the max subarray from p-1 to i when p becomes p-1.
public class Solution {
/**
* @param nums: A list of integers
* @param k: An integer denote to find k non-overlapping subarrays
* @return: An integer denote the sum of max k non-overlapping subarrays
*/
public int maxSubArray(ArrayList<Integer> nums, int k) {
if (nums.size()<k) return 0;
int len = nums.size();
//d[i][j]: select j subarrays from the first i elements, the max sum we can get.
int[][] d = new int[len+1][k+1];
for (int i=0;i<=len;i++) d[i][0] = 0;
for (int j=1;j<=k;j++)
for (int i=j;i<=len;i++){
d[i][j] = Integer.MIN_VALUE;
//Initial value of endMax and max should be taken care very very carefully.
int endMax = 0;
int max = Integer.MIN_VALUE;
for (int p=i-1;p>=j-1;p--){
endMax = Math.max(nums.get(p), endMax+nums.get(p));
max = Math.max(endMax,max);
if (d[i][j]<d[p][j-1]+max)
d[i][j] = d[p][j-1]+max;
}
}
return d[len][k];
}
}
