How to determine the longest increasing subsequence using dynamic programming?

Question

I have a set of integers. I want to find the longest increasing subsequence of that set using dynamic programming.

Answer 1

Here's another O(n^2) JAVA implementation. No recursion/memoization to generate the actual subsequence. Just a string array that stores the actual LIS at every stage and an array to store the length of the LIS for each element. Pretty darn easy. Have a look:

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;

/**
 * Created by Shreyans on 4/16/2015
 */

class LNG_INC_SUB//Longest Increasing Subsequence
{
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
    {
        BufferedReader br=new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
        System.out.println("Enter Numbers Separated by Spaces to find their LIS\n");
        String[] s1=br.readLine().split(" ");
        int n=s1.length;
        int[] a=new int[n];//Array actual of Numbers
        String []ls=new String[n];// Array of Strings to maintain LIS for every element
        for(int i=0;i=0;j--)
            {
                //First check if number at index j is less than num at i.
                // Second the length of that DP should be greater than dp[i]
                // -1 since dp of previous could also be one. So we compare the dp[i] as empty initially
                if(a[j]dp[i]-1)
                {
                    dp[i]=dp[j]+1;//Assigning temp length of LIS. There may come along a bigger LIS of a future a[j]
                    x=ls[j];//Assigning temp LIS of a[j]. Will append a[i] later on
                }
            }
            x+=(" "+a[i]);
            ls[i]=x;
            if(dp[i]>max)
            {
                max=dp[i];
                seq=ls[i];
            }
        }
        System.out.println("Length of LIS is: " + max + "\nThe Sequence is: " + seq);
    }
}

Code in action: http://ideone.com/sBiOQx