Cherry Pickup II (Leetcode 1463) Solution

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Given a rows x cols matrix grid representing a field of cherries. Each cell in grid represents the number of cherries that you can collect.

You have two robots that can collect cherries for you, Robot #1 is located at the top-left corner (0,0) , and Robot #2 is located at the top-right corner (0, cols-1) of the grid.

Return the maximum number of cherries collection using both robots  by following the rules below:

  • From a cell (i,j), robots can move to cell (i+1, j-1) , (i+1, j) or (i+1, j+1).
  • When any robot is passing through a cell, It picks it up all cherries, and the cell becomes an empty cell (0).
  • When both robots stay on the same cell, only one of them takes the cherries.
  • Both robots cannot move outside of the grid at any moment.
  • Both robots should reach the bottom row in the grid.

 

Example 1:

Input: grid = [[3,1,1],[2,5,1],[1,5,5],[2,1,1]]
Output: 24
Explanation: Path of robot #1 and #2 are described in color green and blue respectively.
Cherries taken by Robot #1, (3 + 2 + 5 + 2) = 12.
Cherries taken by Robot #2, (1 + 5 + 5 + 1) = 12.
Total of cherries: 12 + 12 = 24.

Example 2:

Input: grid = [[1,0,0,0,0,0,1],[2,0,0,0,0,3,0],[2,0,9,0,0,0,0],[0,3,0,5,4,0,0],[1,0,2,3,0,0,6]]
Output: 28
Explanation: Path of robot #1 and #2 are described in color green and blue respectively.
Cherries taken by Robot #1, (1 + 9 + 5 + 2) = 17.
Cherries taken by Robot #2, (1 + 3 + 4 + 3) = 11.
Total of cherries: 17 + 11 = 28.

Example 3:

Input: grid = [[1,0,0,3],[0,0,0,3],[0,0,3,3],[9,0,3,3]]
Output: 22

Example 4:

Input: grid = [[1,1],[1,1]]
Output: 4

 

Constraints:

  • rows == grid.length
  • cols == grid[i].length
  • 2 <= rows, cols <= 70
  • 0 <= grid[i][j] <= 100 

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/**
 * Time Complexity: O(M * N ^ 2)
 * Space Complexity: O(M * N ^ 2)
 **/
class Solution {
    public int cherryPickup(int[][] grid) {
        dp = new int[grid.length][grid[0].length][grid[0].length];
        for (int i = 0; i < dp.length; i++) {
            for (int j = 0; j < dp[i].length; j++) {
                Arrays.fill(dp[i][j], -1);
            }
        }

        return solve(grid, 0, 0, grid[0].length - 1);
    }

    int[][][] dp;

    int solve(int[][] grid, int x, int y1, int y2) {
        if (x < 0 || x >= grid.length || y1 < 0 || y1 >= grid[0].length || y2 < 0 || y2 >= grid[0].length) {
            return 0;
        }

        if (dp[x][y1][y2] != -1) {
            return dp[x][y1][y2];
        }

        int res = grid[x][y1];
        if (y1 != y2) {
            res += grid[x][y2];
        }

        int max = Integer.MIN_VALUE;
        for (int i = -1; i <= 1; i++) {
            for (int j = -1; j <= 1; j++) {
                max = Math.max(max, solve(grid, x + 1, y1 + i, y2 + j));
            }
        }

        res = res + max;
        dp[x][y1][y2] = res;

        return res;
    }

}
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