How to find largest common sub-tree in the given two binary search trees?

Question

Two BSTs (Binary Search Trees) are given. How to find largest common sub-tree in the given two binary trees?

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Answer 1

Just hash the children and key of each node and look for duplicates. This would give a linear expected time algorithm. For example, see the following pseudocode, which assumes that there are no hash collisions (dealing with collisions would be straightforward):

ret = -1
// T is a tree node, H is a hash set, and first is a boolean flag
hashTree(T, H, first):
  if (T is null):
    return 0 // leaf case
  h = hash(hashTree(T.left, H, first), hashTree(T.right, H, first), T.key)
  if (first):
    // store hashes of T1's nodes in the set H
    H.insert(h)
  else:
    // check for hashes of T2's nodes in the set H containing T1's nodes
    if H.contains(h):
      ret = max(ret, size(T)) // size is recursive and memoized to get O(n) total time
  return h

H = {}
hashTree(T1, H, true)
hashTree(T2, H, false)
return ret

Note that this is assuming the standard definition of a subtree of a BST, namely that a subtree consists of a node and all of its descendants.