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Solution: Kth Largest Element in an Array

Understand how to find the kth largest element in an array by using a min heap to store the k largest elements. Learn to efficiently manage insertions and removals to achieve optimal performance with O((n-k) log k) time complexity and O(k) space complexity.

Statement

Given an integer array, nums, and an integer, k, determine and return the kth largest element in the array.

Note: The kth largest element is defined with respect to the array’s sorted order (descending), and does not necessarily correspond to the kth unique value.

Constraints:

  • 11 \leq k \leq nums.length 103\leq 10^3

  • 104-10^4 \leq ...