What is the Maximum Sum of Subsequence with No Adjacent Elements problem and how can it be solved using Dynamic Programming?

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What is the Maximum Sum of Subsequence with No Adjacent Elements problem and how can it be solved using Dynamic Programming?

The Maximum Sum of Subsequence with No Adjacent Elements problem is a dynamic programming problem that involves finding the maximum sum of a subsequence from an array, where no two elements in the subsequence are adjacent.

To solve this problem using dynamic programming, we can use a bottom-up approach. We create an auxiliary array, dp, of the same size as the input array. Each element in the dp array represents the maximum sum of a subsequence ending at that index.

We initialize the first two elements of the dp array as follows:
- dp[0] = arr[0] (the first element of the input array)
- dp[1] = max(arr[0], arr[1]) (the maximum of the first two elements of the input array)

Then, for each subsequent element in the input array, we calculate the maximum sum of a subsequence ending at that index by considering two cases:
1. If we include the current element, the maximum sum would be the current element plus the maximum sum of a subsequence ending at the previous non-adjacent element (dp[i-2]).
2. If we exclude the current element, the maximum sum would be the maximum sum of a subsequence ending at the previous element (dp[i-1]).

We update the dp array accordingly:

- dp[i] = max(arr[i] + dp[i-2], dp[i-1])

Finally, the maximum sum of a subsequence with no adjacent elements would be the last element of the dp array:
- maxSum = dp[n-1] (where n is the size of the input array)

By following this approach, we can efficiently solve the Maximum Sum of Subsequence with No Adjacent Elements problem using dynamic programming.