3134. Find the Median of the Uniqueness Array
Description
You are given an integer array nums
. The uniqueness array of nums
is the sorted array that contains the number of distinct elements of all the subarrays of nums
. In other words, it is a sorted array consisting of distinct(nums[i..j])
, for all 0 <= i <= j < nums.length
.
Here, distinct(nums[i..j])
denotes the number of distinct elements in the subarray that starts at index i
and ends at index j
.
Return the median of the uniqueness array of nums
.
Note that the median of an array is defined as the middle element of the array when it is sorted in non-decreasing order. If there are two choices for a median, the smaller of the two values is taken.
Example 1:
Input: nums = [1,2,3]
Output: 1
Explanation:
The uniqueness array of nums
is [distinct(nums[0..0]), distinct(nums[1..1]), distinct(nums[2..2]), distinct(nums[0..1]), distinct(nums[1..2]), distinct(nums[0..2])]
which is equal to [1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3]
. The uniqueness array has a median of 1. Therefore, the answer is 1.
Example 2:
Input: nums = [3,4,3,4,5]
Output: 2
Explanation:
The uniqueness array of nums
is [1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3]
. The uniqueness array has a median of 2. Therefore, the answer is 2.
Example 3:
Input: nums = [4,3,5,4]
Output: 2
Explanation:
The uniqueness array of nums
is [1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3]
. The uniqueness array has a median of 2. Therefore, the answer is 2.
Constraints:
1 <= nums.length <= 105
1 <= nums[i] <= 105
Solutions
Solution 1: Binary Search + Two Pointers
Let the length of the array $\textit{nums}$ be $n$. The length of the uniqueness array is $m = \frac{(1 + n) \times n}{2}$, and the median of the uniqueness array is the $\frac{m + 1}{2}$-th smallest number among these $m$ numbers.
Consider how many numbers in the uniqueness array are less than or equal to $x$. As $x$ increases, there will be more and more numbers less than or equal to $x$. This property is monotonic, so we can use binary search to enumerate $x$ and find the first $x$ such that the number of elements in the uniqueness array less than or equal to $x$ is greater than or equal to $\frac{m + 1}{2}$. This $x$ is the median of the uniqueness array.
We define the left boundary of the binary search as $l = 0$ and the right boundary as $r = n$. Then we perform binary search. For each $\textit{mid}$, we check whether the number of elements in the uniqueness array less than or equal to $\textit{mid}$ is greater than or equal to $\frac{m + 1}{2}$. We achieve this through the function $\text{check}(mx)$.
The implementation idea of the function $\text{check}(mx)$ is as follows:
Since the longer the subarray, the more different elements it contains, we can use two pointers to maintain a sliding window such that the number of different elements in the window does not exceed $mx$. Specifically, we maintain a hash table $\textit{cnt}$, where $\textit{cnt}[x]$ represents the number of occurrences of element $x$ in the window. We use two pointers $l$ and $r$, where $l$ represents the left boundary of the window and $r$ represents the right boundary. Initially, $l = r = 0$.
We enumerate $r$. For each $r$, we add $\textit{nums}[r]$ to the window and update $\textit{cnt}[\textit{nums}[r]]$. If the number of different elements in the window exceeds $mx$, we need to move $l$ to the right until the number of different elements in the window does not exceed $mx$. At this point, the subarrays with the right endpoint $r$ and left endpoints in the range $[l, .., r]$ all meet the condition, and there are $r - l + 1$ such subarrays. We accumulate this count into $k$. If $k$ is greater than or equal to $\frac{m + 1}{2}$, it means that the number of elements in the uniqueness array less than or equal to $\textit{mid}$ is greater than or equal to $\frac{m + 1}{2}$, and we return $\text{true}$; otherwise, we return $\text{false}$.
The time complexity is $O(n \times \log n)$, and the space complexity is $O(n)$. Here, $n$ is the length of the array $\textit{nums}$.
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