1771. Maximize Palindrome Length From Subsequences

Description

You are given two strings, word1 and word2. You want to construct a string in the following manner:

• Choose some non-empty subsequence subsequence1 from word1.
• Choose some non-empty subsequence subsequence2 from word2.
• Concatenate the subsequences: subsequence1 + subsequence2, to make the string.

Return the length of the longest palindrome that can be constructed in the described manner. If no palindromes can be constructed, return 0.

A subsequence of a string s is a string that can be made by deleting some (possibly none) characters from s without changing the order of the remaining characters.

A palindrome is a string that reads the same forward as well as backward.

 

Example 1:

Input: word1 = "cacb", word2 = "cbba"
Output: 5
Explanation: Choose "ab" from word1 and "cba" from word2 to make "abcba", which is a palindrome.

Example 2:

Input: word1 = "ab", word2 = "ab"
Output: 3
Explanation: Choose "ab" from word1 and "a" from word2 to make "aba", which is a palindrome.

Example 3:

Input: word1 = "aa", word2 = "bb"
Output: 0
Explanation: You cannot construct a palindrome from the described method, so return 0.

 

Constraints:

• 1 <= word1.length, word2.length <= 1000
• word1 and word2 consist of lowercase English letters.

Solutions

Solution 1: Dynamic Programming

First, we concatenate strings word1 and word2 to get string $s$. Then we can transform the problem into finding the length of the longest palindromic subsequence in string $s$. However, when calculating the final answer, we need to ensure that at least one character in the palindrome string comes from word1 and another character comes from word2.

We define $f[i][j]$ as the length of the longest palindromic subsequence in the substring of string $s$ with index range $[i, j]$.

If $s[i] = s[j]$, then $s[i]$ and $s[j]$ must be in the longest palindromic subsequence, at this time $f[i][j] = f[i + 1][j - 1] + 2$. At this point, we also need to judge whether $s[i]$ and $s[j]$ come from word1 and word2. If so, we update the maximum value of the answer to $ans=\max(ans, f[i][j])$.

If $s[i] \neq s[j]$, then $s[i]$ and $s[j]$ will definitely not appear in the longest palindromic subsequence at the same time, at this time $f[i][j] = max(f[i + 1][j], f[i][j - 1])$.

Finally, we return the answer.

The time complexity is $O(n^2)$, and the space complexity is $O(n^2)$. Here, $n$ is the length of string $s$.

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class Solution:
    def longestPalindrome(self, word1: str, word2: str) -> int:
        s = word1 + word2
        n = len(s)
        f = [[0] * n for _ in range(n)]
        for i in range(n):
            f[i][i] = 1
        ans = 0
        for i in range(n - 2, -1, -1):
            for j in range(i + 1, n):
                if s[i] == s[j]:
                    f[i][j] = f[i + 1][j - 1] + 2
                    if i < len(word1) <= j:
                        ans = max(ans, f[i][j])
                else:
                    f[i][j] = max(f[i + 1][j], f[i][j - 1])
        return ans

class Solution {
    public int longestPalindrome(String word1, String word2) {
        String s = word1 + word2;
        int n = s.length();
        int[][] f = new int[n][n];
        for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i) {
            f[i][i] = 1;
        }
        int ans = 0;
        for (int i = n - 2; i >= 0; --i) {
            for (int j = i + 1; j < n; ++j) {
                if (s.charAt(i) == s.charAt(j)) {
                    f[i][j] = f[i + 1][j - 1] + 2;
                    if (i < word1.length() && j >= word1.length()) {
                        ans = Math.max(ans, f[i][j]);
                    }
                } else {
                    f[i][j] = Math.max(f[i + 1][j], f[i][j - 1]);
                }
            }
        }
        return ans;
    }
}

class Solution {
public:
    int longestPalindrome(string word1, string word2) {
        string s = word1 + word2;
        int n = s.size();
        int f[n][n];
        memset(f, 0, sizeof f);
        for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i) f[i][i] = 1;
        int ans = 0