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Bipartite minimum vertex cover

CodingAlgorithms & data structuresSenior–Staff~30 min

Given a bipartite graph with nL left nodes (0..nL-1), nR right nodes (0..nR-1), and a list of edges [l, r], return the size of the minimum vertex cover: the fewest vertices (from either side) that touch every edge. Use Konig's theorem (in a bipartite graph the minimum vertex cover size equals the maximum matching size). Assume 1 <= nL, nR <= 500.

Implement
min_vertex_cover_bipartite(nL: int, nR: int, edges: list[list[int]]) → int
Examples
in[2,2,[[0,0],[0,1],[1,1]]]out2
What a strong answer looks like

State your approach and its time/space complexity out loud before you optimize. Handle the edge cases (empty input, duplicates, overflow), and say why you chose this over the brute force. Green tests are the floor, not the grade.

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InputExpectedGot
[2,2,[[0,0],[0,1],[1,1]]]2not run yetsample