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516. Longest Palindromic Subsequence

String Dynamic Programming

Problem - Longest Palindromic Subsequence

Medium

Given a string s, find the longest palindromic subsequence's length in s.

A subsequence is a sequence that can be derived from another sequence by deleting some or no elements without changing the order of the remaining elements.

 

Example 1:

Input: s = "bbbab"
Output: 4
Explanation: One possible longest palindromic subsequence is "bbbb".

Example 2:

Input: s = "cbbd"
Output: 2
Explanation: One possible longest palindromic subsequence is "bb".

 

Constraints:

  • 1 <= s.length <= 1000
  • s consists only of lowercase English letters.

Solutions

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class Solution:
    def longestPalindromeSubseq(self, s: str) -> int:
        n = len(s)
        dp = [[0] * n for _ in range(n)]
        for i in range(n):
            dp[i][i] = 1

        for i in range(n - 1, -1, -1):
            for j in range(i + 1, n):
                if s[i] == s[j]:
                    dp[i][j] = dp[i + 1][j - 1] + 2
                else:
                    dp[i][j] = max(dp[i][j - 1], dp[i + 1][j])

        return dp[0][-1]

Submission Stats:

  • Runtime: 653 ms (89.71%)
  • Memory: 34 MB (68.39%)