KMP avoids rechecking text tokens by remembering which matched pattern suffix is also a prefix.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 | from bisect import bisect_left # Knuth Morris Pratt Pattern Matching in Python # # PURPOSE # KMP avoids rechecking text tokens by remembering which matched pattern suffix is also a # prefix. The prefix table tells where to resume after a mismatch. # # METHOD # Build the longest proper prefix/suffix table for the pattern. During matching, fall back # through that table without moving the text position backward. A full matched prefix gives # the first occurrence. # # COMPLEXITY # O(n+m) time and O(m) auxiliary space. # # CONTRACT # Inputs are integer token sequences. Empty pattern matches at 0. Returns first matching # index or -1. KMP does not define Unicode tokenization. # Public APIs infer array lengths except in C, which accepts pointer/length pairs. Vertex # counts and matrix dimensions remain explicit. Arrays must contain signed 32-bit integers. # Sorted order, correct tree topology, and caller-owned data-structure invariants are # preconditions; checking them on every query would change query complexity. # Scalar and shape checks are included. Value-range checks are included where needed to # prevent invalid indexing or nontermination. Allocation sizes are capped at 4,000,000 # workspace entries. Arithmetic outside Python raises an error on 32-bit overflow; Python # uses arbitrary precision. Native allocation failures propagate. In-place outputs may be # partly updated after arithmetic failure. These are single-threaded, in-memory # implementations. # # LANGUAGE DETAILS # Python 3.9+: automatic lengths, native lists, arbitrary-precision arithmetic, and # bisect_left for LIS. Invalid scalar/shape inputs raise ValueError. Integer element types # and sorted/tree invariants remain caller preconditions. # # EXAMPLE # Expected return: 2. # Run: python example.py # Tests for this exact source artifact run before publication. The accompanying source # archive includes unit cases, runtime results, and source hashes. def alg_require(condition): if not condition: raise ValueError("invalid algorithm input; see contract") def alg_size(n): alg_require(0 <= n <= 4000000) return n def kmp_match(text: list[int], pattern: list[int]) -> int: alg_require(isinstance(text, (list, tuple)) and len(text) <= 1000000) alg_require(isinstance(pattern, (list, tuple)) and len(pattern) <= 1000000) n: int = len(text) m: int = len(pattern) alg_require(n >= 0 and n <= 1000000) alg_require(m >= 0 and m <= 1000000) alg_require(len(pattern) == m) alg_require(len(text) == n) if m == 0: return 0 prefix: list[int] = [0] * alg_size(m + 1) i: int = 1 j: int = 0 while i < m: while j > 0 and pattern[i] != pattern[j]: j = prefix[j - 1] if pattern[i] == pattern[j]: j += 1 prefix[i] = j i += 1 i = 0 j = 0 while i < n: while j > 0 and text[i] != pattern[j]: j = prefix[j - 1] if text[i] == pattern[j]: j += 1 if j == m: return i - m + 1 i += 1 return -1 text = [1, 2, 1, 2, 3] pattern = [1, 2, 3] result = kmp_match(text, pattern) print(result) |