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* `A` [Levenshtein Distance](src/algorithms/string/levenshtein-distance) - minimum edit distance between two sequences
* `A` [Longest Common Subsequence](src/algorithms/sets/longest-common-subsequence) (LCS)
* `A` [Longest Common Substring](src/algorithms/string/longest-common-substring)
* `A` [Longest Increasing subsequence](src/algorithms/sets/longest-increasing-subsequence)
* `A` [Longest Increasing Subsequence](src/algorithms/sets/longest-increasing-subsequence)
* `A` [Shortest Common Supersequence](src/algorithms/sets/shortest-common-supersequence)
* `A` [0/1 Knapsack Problem](src/algorithms/sets/knapsack-problem)
* `A` [Integer Partition](src/algorithms/math/integer-partition)
* `A` [Maximum Subarray](src/algorithms/sets/maximum-subarray)
* `A` [Bellman-Ford Algorithm](src/algorithms/graph/bellman-ford) - finding shortest path to all graph vertices
* `A` [Floyd-Warshall Algorithm](src/algorithms/graph/floyd-warshall) - find shortest paths between all pairs of vertices
* `A` [Regular Expression Matching](src/algorithms/string/regular-expression-matching)
* **Backtracking** - similarly to brute force, try to generate all possible solutions, but each time you generate next solution you test
if it satisfies all conditions, and only then continue generating subsequent solutions. Otherwise, backtrack, and go on a
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# Floyd–Warshall algorithm
# Floyd–Warshall Algorithm

In computer science, the **Floyd–Warshall algorithm** is an algorithm for finding
shortest paths in a weighted graph with positive or negative edge weights (but
with no negative cycles). A single execution of the algorithm will find the
lengths (summed weights) of shortest paths between all pairs of vertices. Although
it does not return details of the paths themselves, it is possible to reconstruct
the paths with simple modifications to the algorithm.

## Algorithm

The Floyd–Warshall algorithm compares all possible paths through the graph between
each pair of vertices. It is able to do this with `O(|V|^3)` comparisons in a graph.
This is remarkable considering that there may be up to `|V|^2` edges in the graph,
and every combination of edges is tested. It does so by incrementally improving an
estimate on the shortest path between two vertices, until the estimate is optimal.

Consider a graph `G` with vertices `V` numbered `1` through `N`. Further consider
a function `shortestPath(i, j, k)` that returns the shortest possible path
from `i` to `j` using vertices only from the set `{1, 2, ..., k}` as
intermediate points along the way. Now, given this function, our goal is to
find the shortest path from each `i` to each `j` using only vertices
in `{1, 2, ..., N}`.

![Recursive Formula](https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/f9b75e25063384ccca499c56f9a279abf661ad3b)

![Recursive Formula](https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/34ac7c89bbb18df3fd660225fd38997079e5e513)
![Recursive Formula](https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/0326d6c14def89269c029da59eba012d0f2edc9d)

This formula is the heart of the Floyd–Warshall algorithm.

## Example

The algorithm above is executed on the graph on the left below:

![Example](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/Floyd-Warshall_example.svg)

In the tables below `i` is row numbers and `j` is column numbers.


**k = 0**

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
|:-----:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|
| **1** | 0 || −2 ||
| **2** | 4 | 0 | 3 ||
| **3** ||| 0 | 2 |
| **4** || −1 || 0 |


**k = 1**

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
|:-----:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|
| **1** | 0 || −2 ||
| **2** | 4 | 0 | 2 ||
| **3** ||| 0 | 2 |
| **4** |||| 0 |


**k = 2**

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
|:-----:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|
| **1** | 0 || −2 ||
| **2** | 4 | 0 | 2 ||
| **3** ||| 0 | 2 |
| **4** | 3 | −1 | 1 | 0 |


**k = 3**

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
|:-----:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|
| **1** | 0 || −2 | 0 |
| **2** | 4 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| **3** ||| 0 | 2 |
| **4** | 3 | −1 | 1 | 0 |


**k = 4**

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
|:-----:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|
| **1** | 0 | −1 | −2 | 0 |
| **2** | 4 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| **3** | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| **4** | 3 | −1 | 1 | 0 |

## References

- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd%E2%80%93Warshall_algorithm)
- [YouTube (by Abdul Bari)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNI0rf2P9gE&list=PLLXdhg_r2hKA7DPDsunoDZ-Z769jWn4R8&index=74)
- [YouTube (by Tushar Roy)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwJdNfdLF9s&list=PLLXdhg_r2hKA7DPDsunoDZ-Z769jWn4R8&index=75)

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