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Solution: Kth Largest Element in an Array

Explore how to identify the kth largest element in an array by applying a min-heap approach that maintains only the top k elements during traversal. This lesson helps you understand and implement an efficient algorithm with optimal time and 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 ...