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By Titan_2003, history, 5 hours ago, In English

Problem: Minimum Sum of Absolute Differences in Subsequences

Description:

Given an array of length N (where 1≤N≤1e5) and an integer k (where 1≤k≤50), find the minimum possible value of the sum of absolute differences of adjacent elements for all subsequences of length k.

Mathematically, for a subsequence {ai1,ai2,…,aik} where i1<i2<…<iki1​<i2​<…<ik​, we need to minimize the value of:

$$$\sum_{j=1}^k |a_{i} - a_{i-1}|$$$

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