703. Kth Largest Element in a Stream

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Description

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You are part of a university admissions office and need to keep track of the kth highest test score from applicants in real-time. This helps to determine cut-off marks for interviews and admissions dynamically as new applicants submit their scores.

You are tasked to implement a class which, for a given integer k, maintains a stream of test scores and continuously returns the kth highest test score after a new score has been submitted. More specifically, we are looking for the kth highest score in the sorted list of all scores.

Implement the KthLargest class:

• KthLargest(int k, int[] nums) Initializes the object with the integer k and the stream of test scores nums.
• int add(int val) Adds a new test score val to the stream and returns the element representing the kth largest element in the pool of test scores so far.

 

Example 1:

Input:
["KthLargest", "add", "add", "add", "add", "add"]
[[3, [4, 5, 8, 2]], [3], [5], [10], [9], [4]]

Output: [null, 4, 5, 5, 8, 8]

Explanation:

KthLargest kthLargest = new KthLargest(3, [4, 5, 8, 2]);
kthLargest.add(3); // return 4
kthLargest.add(5); // return 5
kthLargest.add(10); // return 5
kthLargest.add(9); // return 8
kthLargest.add(4); // return 8

Example 2:

Input:
["KthLargest", "add", "add", "add", "add"]
[[4, [7, 7, 7, 7, 8, 3]], [2], [10], [9], [9]]

Output: [null, 7, 7, 7, 8]

Explanation:

KthLargest kthLargest = new KthLargest(4, [7, 7, 7, 7, 8, 3]);
kthLargest.add(2); // return 7
kthLargest.add(10); // return 7
kthLargest.add(9); // return 7
kthLargest.add(9); // return 8

 

Constraints:

• 0 <= nums.length <= 104
• 1 <= k <= nums.length + 1
• -104 <= nums[i] <= 104
• -104 <= val <= 104
• At most 104 calls will be made to add.

Solution

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Python3

class KthLargest:
 
    def __init__(self, k: int, nums: List[int]):
        self.k = k
        self.heap = []
 
        for x in nums:
            if len(self.heap) == self.k:
                heappushpop(self.heap, x)
            else:
                heappush(self.heap, x)
 
    def add(self, val: int) -> int:
        if len(self.heap) == self.k:
            heappushpop(self.heap, val)
        else:
            heappush(self.heap, val)
 
        return self.heap[0]
 
# Your KthLargest object will be instantiated and called as such:
# obj = KthLargest(k, nums)
# param_1 = obj.add(val)