Hi CodeChef Team and Moderators,
My account (aditya0203) was recently flagged for plagiarism in Monday Munch - DSA Challenge 007 for the problem “Largest Rectangle in Histogram”.
I have reached out via email and call, but I am posting here to request an explicit manual validation from a human reviewer. This flag is a clear false positive due to the standardized nature of the problem.
Why my code looks identical to standard solutions:
Largest Rectangle in Histogram is a classic O(N) Data Structures & Algorithms problem that requires a strict monotonic stack approach to find the previous and next smaller elements. Because the optimal approach is highly standardized, independently written implementations naturally look structurally identical.
This specific implementation method is taught identically by almost every major coding tutor on YouTube (such as Striver/takeUforward, Shraddha khapra). Since thousands of us learned this exact template, variable naming, and logic flow from the same online lectures, our independent codes are bound to have massive structural overlaps.
I had already mastered and accepted this exact problem on LeetCode well before this contest. I did not copy code from any other participant, nor did I share my solution. I have already emailed my timestamped LeetCode history to codechef team.
Could a community moderator or administrator please look into my username (aditya0203) and manually review the code structure? Automated scripts should not penalize clean accounts for applying standard textbook logic learned from standard public resources to classic DSA problems.
Thank you for your time and intervention.
Solution given during contest: (Standard monotonic stack approach using left and right arrays)
Prior LeetCode implementation date: August 12, 2025
LeetCode Submission ID: 1732678154
