[WIP] 895. Maximum Frequency Stack

Question

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.

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Approach

Solution

class FreqStack {
public:
    unordered_map<int, int> freq;
    unordered_map<int, stack<int>> m;
    int maxfreq = 0;
    
    FreqStack() {
        
    }
    
    void push(int val) {
        maxfreq = max(maxfreq, ++freq[val]);
        m[freq[val]].push(val);
    }
    
    int pop() {
                
        int x = m[maxfreq].top();
        m[maxfreq].pop();
        if (!m[freq[x]--].size()) maxfreq--;
        return x;
    }
};

/**
 * Your FreqStack object will be instantiated and called as such:
 * FreqStack* obj = new FreqStack();
 * obj->push(val);
 * int param_2 = obj->pop();
 */