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1917. Leetcodify Friends Recommendations πŸ”’

Description

Table: Listens

+-------------+---------+
| Column Name | Type    |
+-------------+---------+
| user_id     | int     |
| song_id     | int     |
| day         | date    |
+-------------+---------+
This table may contain duplicates (In other words, there is no primary key for this table in SQL).
Each row of this table indicates that the user user_id listened to the song song_id on the day day.

 

Table: Friendship

+---------------+---------+
| Column Name   | Type    |
+---------------+---------+
| user1_id      | int     |
| user2_id      | int     |
+---------------+---------+
In SQL,(user1_id, user2_id) is the primary key for this table.
Each row of this table indicates that the users user1_id and user2_id are friends.
Note that user1_id < user2_id.

 

Recommend friends to Leetcodify users. We recommend user x to user y if:

  • Users x and y are not friends, and
  • Users x and y listened to the same three or more different songs on the same day.

Note that friend recommendations are unidirectional, meaning if user x and user y should be recommended to each other, the result table should have both user x recommended to user y and user y recommended to user x. Also, note that the result table should not contain duplicates (i.e., user y should not be recommended to user x multiple times.).

Return the result table in any order.

The result format is in the following example.

 

Example 1:

Input: 
Listens table:
+---------+---------+------------+
| user_id | song_id | day        |
+---------+---------+------------+
| 1       | 10      | 2021-03-15 |
| 1       | 11      | 2021-03-15 |
| 1       | 12      | 2021-03-15 |
| 2       | 10      | 2021-03-15 |
| 2       | 11      | 2021-03-15 |
| 2       | 12      | 2021-03-15 |
| 3       | 10      | 2021-03-15 |
| 3       | 11      | 2021-03-15 |
| 3       | 12      | 2021-03-15 |
| 4       | 10      | 2021-03-15 |
| 4       | 11      | 2021-03-15 |
| 4       | 13      | 2021-03-15 |
| 5       | 10      | 2021-03-16 |
| 5       | 11      | 2021-03-16 |
| 5       | 12      | 2021-03-16 |
+---------+---------+------------+
Friendship table:
+----------+----------+
| user1_id | user2_id |
+----------+----------+
| 1        | 2        |
+----------+----------+
Output: 
+---------+----------------+
| user_id | recommended_id |
+---------+----------------+
| 1       | 3              |
| 2       | 3              |
| 3       | 1              |
| 3       | 2              |
+---------+----------------+
Explanation: 
Users 1 and 2 listened to songs 10, 11, and 12 on the same day, but they are already friends.
Users 1 and 3 listened to songs 10, 11, and 12 on the same day. Since they are not friends, we recommend them to each other.
Users 1 and 4 did not listen to the same three songs.
Users 1 and 5 listened to songs 10, 11, and 12, but on different days.

Similarly, we can see that users 2 and 3 listened to songs 10, 11, and 12 on the same day and are not friends, so we recommend them to each other.

Solutions

Solution 1

Thinking

A recommendation needs at least three shared songs on the same day and no existing friendship. Friendship is undirected, so a one-way table would miss the reverse edge.

We union both directions of \(\texttt{Friendship}\), self-join \(\texttt{Listens}\) on day and song with distinct users, and reject pairs that already appear as friends.

Grouping by day and user pair, counting distinct songs, and keeping those with count at least \(3\) produces the recommendations; \(\texttt{DISTINCT}\) collapses repeats across days.

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# Write your MySQL query statement below
WITH
    T AS (
        SELECT user1_id, user2_id FROM Friendship
        UNION
        SELECT user2_id AS user1_id, user1_id AS user2_id FROM Friendship
    )
SELECT DISTINCT l1.user_id, l2.user_id AS recommended_id
FROM
    Listens AS l1,
    Listens AS l2
WHERE
    l1.day = l2.day
    AND l1.song_id = l2.song_id
    AND l1.user_id != l2.user_id
    AND NOT EXISTS (
        SELECT 1
        FROM T AS t
        WHERE l1.user_id = t.user1_id AND l2.user_id = t.user2_id
    )
GROUP BY l1.day, l1.user_id, l2.user_id
HAVING COUNT(DISTINCT l1.song_id) >= 3;

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