Code RoomHouse painting minimum cost
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House painting minimum cost

CodingAlgorithms & data structuresMid–Senior~25 min

A row of houses must each be painted one of k colors. costs[i][j] is the cost to paint house i with color j. No two adjacent houses may share a color. Return the minimum total cost to paint all houses. costs has at least one color column when non-empty; it may be empty.

Implement
paint_house_k(costs: list[list[int]]) → int
Examples
in[[[1,5,3],[2,9,4]]]out5
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
[[[1,5,3],[2,9,4]]]5not run yetsample