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DP with absolute value costs creates piecewise linear functions. Slope Trick tracks only the slopes.
Covered with full walkthrough in this section.
Covered with full walkthrough in this section.
Covered with full walkthrough in this section.
THE canonical slope trick problem. Make array non-decreasing with minimum cost, using piecewise linear DP.
Stock trading with slope trick. Maintains optimal profit function as piecewise linear.
2D slope trick variant. Grid movement problem reduced to piecewise linear optimization.
Geometry + inversion counting. Foundation for understanding coordinate transformations in slope trick.
Slope trick for partition optimization. Maintaining optimal prefix/suffix with piecewise costs.
Binary search + absolute value. Foundation for slope trick piecewise linear intuition.
Difference array technique. Related slope analysis for piecewise cost functions.
Greedy with heap. Similar heap operations to slope trick slope maintenance.
Heap-based simulation. Understanding priority queue operations helps with slope trick heaps.
