- Difficulty: Hard
- Tags: LeetCode, Hard, Array, Dynamic Programming, leetcode-265, O(n * k), O(k), 🔒, LintCode
Problem
There are a row of n houses, each house can be painted with one of the k colors. The cost of painting each house with a certain color is different. You have to paint all the houses such that no two adjacent houses have the same color.
The cost of painting each house with a certain color is represented by an n x k cost matrix costs.
- For example,
costs[0][0]is the cost of painting house0with color0;costs[1][2]is the cost of painting house1with color2, and so on...
Return the minimum cost to paint all houses.
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Example 1:
Input: costs = [[1,5,3],[2,9,4]] Output: 5 Explanation: Paint house 0 into color 0, paint house 1 into color 2. Minimum cost: 1 + 4 = 5; Or paint house 0 into color 2, paint house 1 into color 0. Minimum cost: 3 + 2 = 5.
Example 2:
Input: costs = [[1,3],[2,4]] Output: 5
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Constraints:
costs.length == ncosts[i].length == k1 <= n <= 1002 <= k <= 201 <= costs[i][j] <= 20
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Follow up: Could you solve it in O(nk) runtime?