Leetcode 120 Triangle (Dynamic Programming Method)

Given a triangle, find the minimum path sum from top to bottom. Each step you may move to adjacent numbers on the row below.

For example, given the following triangle

[
     [2],
    [3,4],
   [6,5,7],
  [4,1,8,3]
]

The minimum path sum from top to bottom is 11 (i.e., 2 + 3 + 5 + 1 = 11).

题目解析:

标准DP解法的题, 使用一个数组存结果就可以。

思路是from bottom to top, 先把最后一层存入数组, 然后依次递归上面一层求最小值, 这样最后数组index = 0的位置就是所求. 代码如下:

public int minimumTotal(ArrayList<ArrayList<Integer>> triangle) { //标准DP解法, 使用一个数组来存储结果
        int[] res = new int[triangle.size()];
        int lastSize = triangle.size() - 1;
        for(int i = 0; i < triangle.get(lastSize).size(); i++)
            res[i] = triangle.get(lastSize).get(i);
        
        for(int i = triangle.size() - 2; i >= 0; i--){
            for(int j = 0; j < triangle.get(i + 1).size() - 1; j++){
                res[j] = triangle.get(i).get(j) + Math.min(res[j], res[j + 1]);
            }
        }
        return res[0];
    }