Bug in code of Longest Increasing Subsequence problem

Longest Increasing Subsequence

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The Longest Increasing Subsequence problem is to find a subsequence of a given sequence in which the subsequence's elements are in sorted order and in which the subsequence is as long as possible.

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I'm trying to implement a program for Longest Increasing Subsequence, It's giving correct output for some input patterns, But for some it's giving incorrect result. Can anybody tell me where is the bug in the code.
Here's my code

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def binary_search(t, l, r, key):
    while (r - l > 1):
        m = l + (r - l)//2
        if (t[m]>=key):
            r = m
        else:
            l = m
    return r

def LIS():
    tailTable = [0] * N
    tailTable[0] = lst[0]
    len = 1
    for i in range(1, N):
        if (lst[i] < tailTable[0]):
            # New Smallest Value
            tailTable[0] = lst[i]
        elif (lst[i] > tailTable[len - 1]):
            # lst[i] wants to extend largest subsequence
            tailTable[len] = lst[i]
            len += 1
        else:
            # A[i] wants to be current end candidate of an existing
            # subsequence.
            tailTable[binary_search(tailTable, -1, len-1, lst[i])] = lst[i]
   
    return len
   
if __name__ == "__main__":
    N = int(input())
   
    lst = []
    for i in range(N):
        lst.append(input())
    ret = LIS()
    print(ret)

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Originally Posted by atinesh229

It's giving correct output for some input patterns, But for some it's giving incorrect result.

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Suppose I wanted to help debug your code. I would try the test input patterns, going through the code step by step to see what went right or wrong. But all you said is that "for some it's giving incorrect result". I have no idea what input you tested, so I have to try various input by myself... but why should I do that when you have already done that? It is just a waste of my time (and yours).

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Originally Posted by atinesh229

Can anybody tell me where is the bug in the code.

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Are you sure that the algorithm is correct?

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Originally Posted by laserlight

Suppose I wanted to help debug your code. I would try the test input patterns, going through the code step by step to see what went right or wrong. But all you said is that "for some it's giving incorrect result". I have no idea what input you tested, so I have to try various input by myself... but why should I do that when you have already done that? It is just a waste of my time (and yours).


Are you sure that the algorithm is correct?

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Test cases that I've tried which worked

Test Case 1: 0, 8, 4, 12, 2, 10, 6, 14, 1, 9, 5, 13, 3, 11, 7, 15
Ans : 6

Test Case 2: 1, 12, 7, 0, 23, 11, 52, 31, 61, 69, 70, 2
Ans : 7

Test Case 3: 6, 3, 5, 2, 7, 8, 1
Ans : 4

Test case which is not working is here (Its quite a huge manually cannot be done)
Test Case 4
Use this code to run above the test case.


Actually above test case is from Hacker Rank

Here is another implementation if you are interested, which still have the same problem

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from math import ceil

def LIS():
    #longest_sequence_indices = [None] * (N+1)
    tailTable = [0] * (N+1)
    len = 0
   
    for i in range(N):
        # Binary Search
        low = 1
        high = len
        while low <= high:
            mid = ceil((low + high)/2)
            if (tailTable[mid] < lst[i]):
                low = mid + 1
            else:
                high = mid - 1
   
        # low will be length of the longest sequence ending at lst[i]
        longest_len = low
   
        #longest_sequence_indices[longest_len_here] = i
        # The corresponding value
        tailTable[longest_len] = lst[i]
   
        if (longest_len > len):
            len = longest_len
   
    return(len)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    N = int(input())
   
    lst = []
    for i in range(N):
        lst.append(input())

    ret = LIS()
    print(ret)

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