- Difficulty: Medium
- Tags: LeetCode, Medium, Array, Hash Table, Divide and Conquer, Bucket Sort, Counting, Quickselect, Sorting, Heap (Priority Queue), leetcode-347, Sort, O(n), Quick Select, Heap
Problem
Given an integer array nums
and an integer k
, return the k
most frequent elements. You may return the answer in any order.
Example 1:
Input: nums = [1,1,1,2,2,3], k = 2 Output: [1,2]
Example 2:
Input: nums = [1], k = 1 Output: [1]
Constraints:
1 <= nums.length <= 105
-104 <= nums[i] <= 104
k
is in the range[1, the number of unique elements in the array]
.- It is guaranteed that the answer is unique.
Follow up: Your algorithm's time complexity must be better than O(n log n)
, where n is the array's size.