Sort elements by frequency | Set 4 (Efficient approach using hash)
Print the elements of an array in the decreasing frequency if 2 numbers have the same frequency then print the one which came first.
Examples:
Input : arr[] = {2, 5, 2, 8, 5, 6, 8, 8} Output : arr[] = {8, 8, 8, 2, 2, 5, 5, 6} Input : arr[] = {2, 5, 2, 6, -1, 9999999, 5, 8, 8, 8} Output : arr[] = {8, 8, 8, 2, 2, 5, 5, 6, -1, 9999999}
We have discussed different approaches in below posts :
Sort elements by frequency | Set 1
Sort elements by frequency | Set 2
Sorting Array Elements By Frequency | Set 3 (Using STL)
All of the above approaches work in O(n Log n) time where n is total number of elements. In this post, a new approach is discussed that works in O(n + m Log m) time where n is total number of elements and m is total number of distinct elements.
The idea is to use hashing.
- We insert all elements and their counts into a hash. This step takes O(n) time where n is number of elements.
- We copy the contents of hash to an array (or vector) and sort them by counts. This step takes O(m Log m) time where m is total number of distinct elements.
- For maintaining the order of elements if the frequency is the same, we use another hash which has the key as elements of the array and value as the index. If the frequency is the same for two elements then sort elements according to the index.
The below image is a dry run of the above approach:
We do not need to declare another map m2, as it does not provide the proper expected result for the problem.
instead, we need to just check for the first values of the pairs sent as parameters in the sortByVal function.
Below is the implementation of the above approach:
C++
// CPP program for the above approach #include <bits/stdc++.h> using namespace std; // Used for sorting by frequency. And if frequency is same, // then by appearance bool sortByVal( const pair< int , int >& a, const pair< int , int >& b) { // If frequency is same then sort by index if (a.second == b.second) return a.first < b.first; return a.second > b.second; } // function to sort elements by frequency vector< int >sortByFreq( int a[], int n) { vector< int >res; unordered_map< int , int > m; vector<pair< int , int > > v; for ( int i = 0; i < n; ++i) { // Map m is used to keep track of count // of elements in array m[a[i]]++; } // Copy map to vector copy(m.begin(), m.end(), back_inserter(v)); // Sort the element of array by frequency sort(v.begin(), v.end(), sortByVal); for ( int i = 0; i < v.size(); ++i) while (v[i].second--) { res.push_back(v[i].first); } return res; } // Driver program int main() { int a[] = { 2, 5, 2, 6, -1, 9999999, 5, 8, 8, 8 }; int n = sizeof (a) / sizeof (a[0]); vector< int >res; res = sortByFreq(a, n); for ( int i = 0;i < res.size(); i++) cout<<res[i]<< " " ; return 0; } |
Python3
# Used for sorting by frequency. And if frequency is same, # then by appearance from functools import cmp_to_key def sortByVal(a,b): # If frequency is same then sort by index if (a[ 1 ] = = b[ 1 ]): return a[ 0 ] - b[ 0 ] return b[ 1 ] - a[ 1 ] # function to sort elements by frequency def sortByFreq(a, n): res = [] m = {} v = [] for i in range (n): # Map m is used to keep track of count # of elements in array if (a[i] in m): m[a[i]] = m[a[i]] + 1 else : m[a[i]] = 1 for key,value in m.items(): v.append([key,value]) # Sort the element of array by frequency v.sort(key = cmp_to_key(sortByVal)) for i in range ( len (v)): while (v[i][ 1 ]): res.append(v[i][ 0 ]) v[i][ 1 ] - = 1 return res # Driver program a = [ 2 , 5 , 2 , 6 , - 1 , 9999999 , 5 , 8 , 8 , 8 ] n = len (a) res = [] res = sortByFreq(a, n) for i in range ( len (res)): print (res[i],end = " " ) # This code is contributed by shinjanpatra |
Javascript
<script> // JavaScript program for the above approach // Used for sorting by frequency. And if frequency is same, // then by appearance function sortByVal(a,b) { // If frequency is same then sort by index if (a[1] == b[1]) return a[0] - b[0]; return b[1] - a[1]; } // function to sort elements by frequency function sortByFreq(a, n) { let res = []; let m = new Map(); let v = []; for (let i = 0; i < n; ++i) { // Map m is used to keep track of count // of elements in array if (m.has(a[i])) m.set(a[i],m.get(a[i])+1); else m.set(a[i],1); } for (let [key,value] of m){ v.push([key,value]); } // Sort the element of array by frequency v.sort(sortByVal) for (let i = 0; i < v.length; ++i) while (v[i][1]--) { res.push(v[i][0]); } return res; } // Driver program let a = [ 2, 5, 2, 6, -1, 9999999, 5, 8, 8, 8 ]; let n = a.length; let res = []; res = sortByFreq(a, n); for (let i = 0;i < res.length; i++) document.write(res[i], " " ); // This code is contributed by shinjanpatra </script> |
8 8 8 2 2 5 5 -1 6 9999999
Time Complexity: O(n) + O(m Log m) where n is total number of elements and m is total number of distinct elements
Auxiliary Space: O(n)
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Simple way to sort by frequency.
The Approach:
Here In This approach we first we store the element by there frequency in vector_pair format(Using Mapping stl map) then sort it according to frequency then reverse it and apply bubble sort to make the condition true decreasing frequency if 2 numbers have the same frequency then print the one which came first. then print the vector.
C++
#include <bits/stdc++.h> #include<iostream> using namespace std; //map all the number and sort by frequency. void the_helper( int a[],vector<pair< int , int >>&res, int n){ map< int , int >mp; for ( int i=0;i<n;i++)mp[a[i]]++; for ( auto it:mp)res.push_back({it.second,it.first}); sort(res.begin(),res.end()); } int main() { int a[] = {2, 5, 2, 6, -1, 9999999, 5, 8, 8, 8}; vector<pair< int , int >>res; the_helper(a,res,10); reverse(res.begin(),res.end()); for ( int i=0;i<res.size();i++){ if (res[i].first==res[i+1].first){ for ( int j=i;j<res.size();j++){ if (res[i].second>res[j].second&&res[i].first==res[j].first){ swap(res[i],res[j]); } } } } for ( int i=0;i<res.size();i++){ for ( int j=0;j<res[i].first;j++)cout<<res[i].second<< " " ; // cout<<endl; } return 0; } |
Javascript
// JavaScript program for the above appraoch // pair class class pair{ constructor(first, second){ this .first = first; this .second = second; } } // map all the number and sort by frequency function the_helper(a, res, n){ mp = new Map(); for (let i = 0; i<n; i++){ if (mp.has(a[i])) mp.set(a[i], mp.get(a[i])+1); else mp.set(a[i], 1); } mp.forEach( function (value, key){ res.push( new pair(value, key)); }) res.sort( function (a, b){ return a.first - b.first; }); } // dirver program let a = [2, 5, 2, 6, -1, 9999999, 5, 8, 8, 8]; let res = []; the_helper(a, res, 10); res.reverse(); for (let i = 0; i < res.length-1; i++){ if (res[i].first == res[i+1].first){ for (let j = i; j < res.length; j++){ if (res[i].second > res[j].second && res[i].first == res[j].first){ let temp = res[j]; res[j] = res[i]; res[i] = temp; } } } } console.log( "\n" ); for (let i = 0; i < res.length; i++){ for (let j = 0; j < res[i].first; j++){ console.log(res[i].second + " " ); } } // this code is contributed by Yash Agarwal(yashagarwal2852002) |
8 8 8 2 2 5 5 -1 6 9999999
Time Complexity: O(n^2) I.e it take O(n) for getting the frequency sorted vector but for sorting in decreasing frequency if 2 numbers have the same frequency then print the one which came first we use bubble sort so it take O(n^2).
Auxiliary Space: O(n),for vector.
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