Solution: Sliding Window Median

Understand how to solve the sliding window median problem using heap data structures. This lesson explores balancing max and min heaps to maintain the median while sliding a window across an array, improving efficiency with a hash map to defer costly removals. Gain insights into time and space complexity tradeoffs and apply these techniques to dynamic data processing scenarios.

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Statement
Solution
- Naive approach
- Optimized approach using heaps

Statement

Given an integer array, nums, and an integer, k, there is a sliding window of size k, which is moving from the very left to the very right of the array. We can only see the k numbers in the window. Each time the sliding window moves right by one position.

Given this scenario, return the median of the each window. Answers within $10^{-5}$ of the actual value will be accepted.

Constraints:

$1 \leq$ k $\leq$ nums.length $\leq 10^3$
$-2^{31} \leq$

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