Huffman Encoding (Optimal Binary Search Trees)

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Description

A related problem to the OBST problem is when there is no order between the keys and there are probabilities associated only with the gaps and the objective is to build a binary tree with minimum expected weighted path length from the root. This is called the Huffman Tree Problem

Related Problems

Generalizations: Optimal Binary Search Tree Problem

Related: Approximate OBST, Alphabetic Tree Problem

Parameters

$n$: number of elements

Table of Algorithms

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