# 1519. Number of Nodes in the Sub-Tree With the Same Label ###### tags: `leetcode` ## Description You are given a tree (i.e. a connected, undirected graph that has no cycles) consisting of n nodes numbered from 0 to n - 1 and exactly n - 1 edges. The root of the tree is the node 0, and each node of the tree has a label which is a lower-case character given in the string labels (i.e. The node with the number i has the label labels[i]). The edges array is given on the form edges[i] = [ai, bi], which means there is an edge between nodes ai and bi in the tree. Return an array of size n where ans[i] is the number of nodes in the subtree of the ith node which have the same label as node i. A subtree of a tree T is the tree consisting of a node in T and all of its descendant nodes. - Example 1: ![](https://i.imgur.com/Rhz3oU7.png) >Input: n = 7, edges = [[0,1],[0,2],[1,4],[1,5],[2,3],[2,6]], labels = "abaedcd" Output: [2,1,1,1,1,1,1] >>Explanation: Node 0 has label 'a' and its sub-tree has node 2 with label 'a' as well, thus the answer is 2. Notice that any node is part of its sub-tree. Node 1 has a label 'b'. The sub-tree of node 1 contains nodes 1,4 and 5, as nodes 4 and 5 have different labels than node 1, the answer is just 1 (the node itself). - Example 2: ![](https://i.imgur.com/hsPRCqH.png) >Input: n = 4, edges = [[0,1],[1,2],[0,3]], labels = "bbbb" Output: [4,2,1,1] >>Explanation: The sub-tree of node 2 contains only node 2, so the answer is 1. The sub-tree of node 3 contains only node 3, so the answer is 1. The sub-tree of node 1 contains nodes 1 and 2, both have label 'b', thus the answer is 2. The sub-tree of node 0 contains nodes 0, 1, 2 and 3, all with label 'b', thus the answer is 4. - Example 3: ![](https://i.imgur.com/qlWlOk3.png) >Input: n = 5, edges = [[0,1],[0,2],[1,3],[0,4]], labels = "aabab" Output: [3,2,1,1,1] - Constraints: >1 <= n <= 105 edges.length == n - 1 edges[i].length == 2 0 <= ai, bi < n ai != bi labels.length == n labels is consisting of only of lowercase English letters. ## Solution - This is a DFS problem that should accumulate the count from the leaf to the root - Because the given information about the tree is the `edges`, transform them into a adjancent list ```cpp= adjList.resize(n); for (auto &i : edges) { adjList[i[0]].push_back(i[1]); adjList[i[1]].push_back(i[0]); } ``` - Then for the `DFS`, calculate the current count for all the alphabet and let the one that finish iteration with the answer of the current accumulated result of the alphabet the index has ```cpp= for (auto &i : adjList[idx]) { if (i != prev) { temp = dfs(i, idx, edges, ans, labels); transform(cur.begin(), cur.end(), temp.begin(), cur.begin(), plus<int>()); } } cur[labels[idx] - 'a']++; ans[idx] = cur[labels[idx] - 'a']; ``` - When passing the vector and the string, remember to pass them with the reference in order to speed up - In this case, I did not use reference with string and got TLE several time