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373. Find K Pairs with Smallest Sums

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Problem Statement

373. Find K Pairs with Smallest Sums

Medium


You are given two integer arrays nums1 and nums2 sorted in ascending order and an integer k.

Define a pair (u, v) which consists of one element from the first array and one element from the second array.

Return the k pairs (u1, v1), (u2, v2), ..., (uk, vk) with the smallest sums.

 

Example 1:

Input: nums1 = [1,7,11], nums2 = [2,4,6], k = 3
Output: [[1,2],[1,4],[1,6]]
Explanation: The first 3 pairs are returned from the sequence: [1,2],[1,4],[1,6],[7,2],[7,4],[11,2],[7,6],[11,4],[11,6]

Example 2:

Input: nums1 = [1,1,2], nums2 = [1,2,3], k = 2
Output: [[1,1],[1,1]]
Explanation: The first 2 pairs are returned from the sequence: [1,1],[1,1],[1,2],[2,1],[1,2],[2,2],[1,3],[1,3],[2,3]

Example 3:

Input: nums1 = [1,2], nums2 = [3], k = 3
Output: [[1,3],[2,3]]
Explanation: All possible pairs are returned from the sequence: [1,3],[2,3]

 

Constraints:

C++

Source file
class Solution {
public:
    vector<vector<int>> kSmallestPairs(vector<int>& nums1, vector<int>& nums2, int k) {
        int i=0, j=0;
        vector<vector<int>> v;
        auto comparator = [](const vector<int>& a, const vector<int>& b){
            return a[0]+a[1]<b[0]+b[1];
        };
        int maxI = min(k, static_cast<int>(nums1.size()));
        int maxJ = min(k, static_cast<int>(nums2.size()));
        priority_queue <vector<int>, vector<vector<int>>, decltype(comparator)> pq(comparator);
        for(int i=0; i<maxI; i++){
            for(int j=0; j<maxJ; j++){
                if(pq.size()<k)
                    pq.push({nums1[i], nums2[j]});
                else{ //(pq.size()>k)
                    if(nums1[i]+nums2[j]<pq.top()[0]+pq.top()[1])
                        pq.pop(), pq.push({nums1[i], nums2[j]});
                    else break;
                }
            }
        }
        while(k-- && !pq.empty())
            v.push_back(pq.top()), pq.pop();
        reverse(v.begin(), v.end());
        return v;
    }
};