leetcode 373. Find K Pairs with Smallest Sums

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.

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

Example 1:


Given nums1 = [1,7,11], nums2 = [2,4,6], k = 3

Return: [1,2],[1,4],[1,6]

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:


Given nums1 = [1,1,2], nums2 = [1,2,3], k = 2

Return: [1,1],[1,1]

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:


Given nums1 = [1,2], nums2 = [3], k = 3

Return: [1,3],[2,3]

All possible pairs are returned from the sequence:
[1,3],[2,3]

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class Solution(object):
def kSmallestPairs(self, nums1, nums2, k):
"""
:type nums1: List[int]
:type nums2: List[int]
:type k: int
:rtype: List[List[int]]
"""
tmp = []
if not nums1 or not nums2:
return []
for i in nums1:
for j in nums2:
tmp.append([i+j,i,j])
tmp = sorted(tmp,key=lambda x:x[0])
out = []
for l in tmp:
out.append(l[1:])
if k > len(out):return out
return out[:k]
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from heapq import *
class Solution:
def kSmallestPairs(self, nums1, nums2, k):
"""
:type nums1: List[int]
:type nums2: List[int]
:type k: int
:rtype: List[List[int]]
"""
if not nums1 or not nums2:
return []

heap = [(nums1[0] + nums2[0], 0, 0)]
visited = set()
output = []

while len(output) < k and heap:
val = heappop(heap)
output.append([nums1[val[1]], nums2[val[2]]])

if val[1] < len(nums1) - 1 and (val[1]+1, val[2]) not in visited:
visited.add((val[1]+1, val[2]))
heappush(heap, (nums1[val[1] + 1] + nums2[val[2]], val[1] + 1, val[2]))
if val[2] < len(nums2) - 1 and (val[1], val[2] + 1) not in visited:
visited.add((val[1], val[2] + 1))
heappush(heap, (nums1[val[1]] + nums2[val[2] + 1], val[1], val[2] + 1))

return output