LeetCode Minimum Swaps to Group All 1's Together Solution
Given a binary array data
, return the minimum number of swaps required to group all 1
’s present in the array together in any place in the array.
Example 1:
Input: data = [1,0,1,0,1]
Output: 1
Explanation: There are 3 ways to group all 1's together:
[1,1,1,0,0]
using 1 swap.
[0,1,1,1,0]
using 2 swaps.
[0,0,1,1,1]
using 1 swap.
The minimum is 1.
Example 2:
Input: data = [0,0,0,1,0]
Output: 0
Explanation: Since there is only one 1 in the array, no swaps are needed.
Example 3:
Input: data = [1,0,1,0,1,0,0,1,1,0,1]
Output: 3
Explanation: One possible solution that uses 3 swaps is [0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1].
Constraints:
1 <= data.length <= 105
data[i]
is either0
or1
.
Problem Link: https://leetcode.com/problems/minimum-swaps-to-group-all-1s-together/
Solution
This is a classic sliding window question that has a fixed size.
We wish to find a window to store all the 1's in the very end, thus we fix the size to the total number of 1's.
Since we want to use minimum number of swaps, it will be best if we can find a window with most 1's (or least 0's).
Let count1
be the number of 1's in the entire data
. We will initialize total
to be the number of 1's in the window from index 0 to the count1
(which is the sum of the window).
Then, as we slide the window to the right, we remove data[r-count1]
from the total
and add data[r]
to the total
so that total
is the sum of the new window.
Then for each window that has size of count1
, we compare for the minimum swaps. Here, we calcluate the swaps count1-total
, as the number of swaps is just the number of 0's in the window.
Implementation
1def minSwaps(self, data):
2 count1 = data.count(1)
3 total = 0
4 for i in range(count1): total += data[i]
5 swaps = count1-total
6 for r in range(count1, len(data)):
7 total += data[r]
8 total -= data[r-count1]
9 swaps = min(swaps, count1-total)
10 return swaps