LC-0378 Medium LeetCode

378. Kth Smallest Element in a Sorted Matrix

Array Binary Search Sorting Heap (Priority Queue) Matrix

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Difficulty: medium Acceptance: 63% Topics: Array, Binary Search, Sorting, Heap (Priority Queue), Matrix

Reading material

Arrays & Hashing 12 min Binary Search 12 min Sorting 13 min

Reference solution (spoiler · python)

# Time:  O(k * log(min(n, m, k))), with n x m matrix
# Space: O(min(n, m, k))

from heapq import heappush, heappop

class Solution(object):
    def kthSmallest(self, matrix, k):
        """
        :type matrix: List[List[int]]
        :type k: int
        :rtype: int
        """
        kth_smallest = 0
        min_heap = []

        def push(i, j):
            if len(matrix) > len(matrix[0]):
                if i < len(matrix[0]) and j < len(matrix):
                    heappush(min_heap, [matrix[j][i], i, j])
            else:
                if i < len(matrix) and j < len(matrix[0]):
                    heappush(min_heap, [matrix[i][j], i, j])

        push(0, 0)
        while min_heap and k > 0:
            kth_smallest, i, j = heappop(min_heap)
            push(i, j + 1)
            if j == 0:
                push(i + 1, 0)
            k -= 1

        return kth_smallest

Solution from kamyu104/LeetCode-Solutions · MIT