LeetCode 886, Medium. Topics: Depth-First Search, Breadth-First Search, Union-Find, Graph Theory, Graph Coloring, Bipartite Graph. View on LeetCode.
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Problem
We want to split a group of n people (labeled from 1 to n) into two groups of any size. Each person may dislike some other people, and they should not go into the same group.
Given the integer n and the array dislikes where dislikes[i] = [ai, bi] indicates that the person labeled ai does not like the person labeled bi, return true if it is possible to split everyone into two groups in this way.
Examples
Explanation: The first group has [1,4], and the second group has [2,3].
Explanation: We need at least 3 groups to divide them. We cannot put them in two groups.
Constraints
1 <= n <= 2000
0 <= dislikes.length <= 10^4
dislikes[i].length == 2
1 <= ai < bi <= n
- All the pairs of dislikes are unique.
Solution
Reference implementation from solution.py on GitHub, full suite in test_solution.py:
Complexity
Last modified on September 7, 2026