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Abhishek Chaudhary
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Maximum Frequency Stack

Design a stack-like data structure to push elements to the stack and pop the most frequent element from the stack.

Implement the FreqStack class:

  • FreqStack() constructs an empty frequency stack.
  • void push(int val) pushes an integer val onto the top of the stack.
  • int pop() removes and returns the most frequent element in the stack.
    • If there is a tie for the most frequent element, the element closest to the stack's top is removed and returned.

Example 1:

Input
["FreqStack", "push", "push", "push", "push", "push", "push", "pop", "pop", "pop", "pop"]
[[], [5], [7], [5], [7], [4], [5], [], [], [], []]
Output
[null, null, null, null, null, null, null, 5, 7, 5, 4]

Explanation
FreqStack freqStack = new FreqStack();
freqStack.push(5); // The stack is [5]
freqStack.push(7); // The stack is [5,7]
freqStack.push(5); // The stack is [5,7,5]
freqStack.push(7); // The stack is [5,7,5,7]
freqStack.push(4); // The stack is [5,7,5,7,4]
freqStack.push(5); // The stack is [5,7,5,7,4,5]
freqStack.pop(); // return 5, as 5 is the most frequent. The stack becomes [5,7,5,7,4].
freqStack.pop(); // return 7, as 5 and 7 is the most frequent, but 7 is closest to the top. The stack becomes [5,7,5,4].
freqStack.pop(); // return 5, as 5 is the most frequent. The stack becomes [5,7,4].
freqStack.pop(); // return 4, as 4, 5 and 7 is the most frequent, but 4 is closest to the top. The stack becomes [5,7].

Constraints:

  • 0 <= val <= 109
  • At most 2 * 104 calls will be made to push and pop.
  • It is guaranteed that there will be at least one element in the stack before calling pop.

SOLUTION:

from collections import Counter

class FreqStack:

    def __init__(self):
        self.freq = Counter()
        self.maxfreq = 0
        self.freqgrp = {}

    def push(self, val: int) -> None:
        newfreq = self.freq[val] + 1
        self.freq[val] = newfreq
        self.maxfreq = max(self.maxfreq, newfreq)
        self.freqgrp[newfreq] = self.freqgrp.get(newfreq, []) + [val]

    def pop(self) -> int:
        val = self.freqgrp[self.maxfreq].pop()
        if len(self.freqgrp[self.maxfreq]) == 0:
            self.maxfreq -= 1
        self.freq[val] -= 1
        return val


# Your FreqStack object will be instantiated and called as such:
# obj = FreqStack()
# obj.push(val)
# param_2 = obj.pop()
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