Find longest increasing sequence

Question

You are given a sequence of numbers and you need to find a longest increasing subsequence from the given input(not necessary continuous).

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Answer 1

Based on @fgb 's answer, I implemented the algorithm using c++ to find the longest strictly increasing sub-sequence. Hope this will be somewhat helpful.

M[i] is the index of the last element of the sequence whose length is i, P[i] is the index of the previous element of i in the sequence, which is used to print the whole sequence.

main() is used to run the simple test case: {0, 8, 4, 12, 2, 10, 6, 14, 1, 9, 5, 13, 3, 11, 7, 15}.

#include <vector>
using std::vector;
int LIS(const vector<int> &v) {
  int size = v.size(), max_len = 1;
  // M[i] is the index of the last element of the sequence whose length is i
  int *M = new int[size];
  // P[i] is the index of the previous element of i in the sequence, which is used to print the whole sequence
  int *P = new int[size];
  M[0] = 0; P[0] = -1;
  for (int i = 1; i < size; ++i) {
    if (v[i] > v[M[max_len - 1]]) {
      M[max_len] = i;
      P[i] = M[max_len - 1];
      ++max_len;
      continue;
    }
    // Find the position to insert i using binary search
    int lo = 0, hi = max_len - 1;
    while (lo <= hi) {
      int mid = lo + ((hi - lo) >> 1);
      if (v[i] < v[M[mid]]) {
        hi = mid - 1;
      } else if (v[i] > v[M[mid]]) {
        lo = mid + 1;
      } else {
        lo = mid;
        break;
      }
    }
    P[i] = P[M[lo]];  // Modify the previous pointer
    M[lo] = i;  
  }
  // Print the whole subsequence
  int i = M[max_len - 1];
  while (i >= 0) {
    printf("%d ", v[i]);
    i = P[i];
  }
  printf("\n");
  delete[] M, delete[] P;
  return max_len;
}
int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
  int data[] = {0, 8, 4, 12, 2, 10, 6, 14, 1, 9, 5, 13, 3, 11, 7, 15};
  vector<int> v;
  v.insert(v.end(), data, data + sizeof(data) / sizeof(int));
  LIS(v);
  return 0;
}