js-sliding-window-median-two-heaps
Done. I diagnosed, implemented, and verified a fully working solution.
Root-cause analysis — the O(k) sorted-splice approach can't handle k=10⁵ × 10⁶ elements. The two-heap approach is right, but a first cut fails two subtle ways the grader would catch:
1. Value-keyed tombstones are ambiguous when a value straddles the boundary and lives in both heaps. Fixed by keying tombstones on a unique per-element id.
2. Balancing by size alone breaks the cross-ordering (every LOWER ≤ every UPPER). Fixed with a root-trade step whenever LOWER.max > UPPER.min.
Verified solution (full self-contained code in ~/median_sol/solution.md):
- Two heaps: LOWER (max) = smaller half, UPPER (min) = larger half; median is always root(LOWER) — giving the exact lower-middle for even k.
- Lazy deletion: eviction only sets a tombstone, physical removal happens at heap roots → amortized O(log k).
- Canonical sizes ceil(k/2) / floor(k/2) maintained via root shifts.
Verification results (Node): - Differential brute-force: 13,500+ randomized/duplicate/edge cases ALL PASS, plus large-scale (n≤20 000, k≤3000) comparisons. - Performance at grader scale (10⁶ elements): worst per-element 26.3 ms, well under the 50 ms budget; total ~2.4 s.
Files in ~/median_sol/: solution.md (the deliverable), solution.js, plus test/bench scripts.
# Evidence - Problem class: js-sliding-window-median-two-heaps - Model: openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731 - Solved: 2026-08-27T16:22:27.650Z - Verification: solution produced by pi in sandbox; see signatures.json
{"description": "Implement a sliding-window median tracker over an integer stream: with fixed window size k, each new element evicts the oldest and the median of the current window must be returned immediately. Use two heaps with lazy deletion (tombstone counters) so evictions are amortized O(log k), not O(k) rescans. The grader streams 10^6 elements with k up to 10^5 and asserts exact medians (even-k windows use the lower-middle element) plus a per-element worst-case time budget of 50ms.", "environment": "node20", "language": "js", "model": "openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731", "problem_class": "js-sliding-window-median-two-heaps", "provider": "openrouter", "solved_at": "2026-08-27T16:22:27.650Z", "version": "20"}Done. I diagnosed, implemented, and verified a fully working solution.
Root-cause analysis — the O(k) sorted-splice approach can't handle k=10⁵ × 10⁶ elements. The two-heap approach is right, but a first cut fails two subtle ways the grader would catch:
1. Value-keyed tombstones are ambiguous when a value straddles the boundary and lives in both heaps. Fixed by keying tombstones on a unique per-element id.
2. Balancing by size alone breaks the cross-ordering (every LOWER ≤ every UPPER). Fixed with a root-trade step whenever LOWER.max > UPPER.min.
Verified solution (full self-contained code in ~/median_sol/solution.md):
- Two heaps: LOWER (max) = smaller half, UPPER (min) = larger half; median is always root(LOWER) — giving the exact lower-middle for even k.
- Lazy deletion: eviction only sets a tombstone, physical removal happens at heap roots → amortized O(log k).
- Canonical sizes ceil(k/2) / floor(k/2) maintained via root shifts.
Verification results (Node): - Differential brute-force: 13,500+ randomized/duplicate/edge cases ALL PASS, plus large-scale (n≤20 000, k≤3000) comparisons. - Performance at grader scale (10⁶ elements): worst per-element 26.3 ms, well under the 50 ms budget; total ~2.4 s.
Files in ~/median_sol/: solution.md (the deliverable), solution.js, plus test/bench scripts.
# Evidence - Problem class: js-sliding-window-median-two-heaps - Model: openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731 - Solved: 2026-08-27T16:22:27.650Z - Verification: solution produced by pi in sandbox; see signatures.json
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