Sponsored
Sponsored
By using a Min-Heap, we can efficiently keep track of the k largest elements. Maintain a heap of size k, and for each element in the array, decide whether to add it to the heap. If you add an element to the heap when it is full, remove the minimum element to maintain the size of the heap as k. At the end, the root of the heap will be the kth largest element.
Time Complexity: O(n log n), where n is the size of the array, because of the sorting operation.
Space Complexity: O(1), as we are modifying the input array in-place.
1var findKthLargest = function(nums, k) {
2 const minHeap = [];
3 for (let num of nums) {
4 minHeap.push(num);
5 minHeap.sort((a, b) => a - b); // Keep sorting the heap
6 if (minHeap.length > k) {
7 minHeap.shift(); // Remove smallest element to maintain heap size
8 }
9 }
10 return minHeap[0];
11};
12
13let nums = [3,2,1,5,6,4];
14let k = 2;
15console.log(findKthLargest(nums, k));In JavaScript, we build a min-heap by pushing elements into an array and sorting it after each insertion. This maintains the k largest elements. If the size exceeds k, remove the smallest element. The smallest element remaining is the kth largest element.
Quickselect is an efficient selection algorithm to find the kth smallest element in an unordered list. The algorithm is related to the quicksort sorting algorithm. It works by partitioning the data, similar to the partitioning step of quicksort, and is based on the idea of reducing the problem size through partitioning.
Average-case Time Complexity: O(n), but worst-case O(n²).
Space Complexity: O(1) for iterative solution, O(log n) for recursive calls due to stack depth.
1import
The Python method takes advantage of Python's dynamic lists and absence of static partitioning constraints. A randomized pivot helps further eliminate edge case pitfalls akin to performance degradation prevalent in non-randomized variants of Quickselect.