word-ladder-ii


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Points: 5
Time limit: 30.0s
Memory limit: 250M

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A transformation sequence from word beginWord to word endWord using a dictionary wordList is a sequence of words beginWord -> s₁ -> s₂ -> ... -> sk such that:

Every adjacent pair of words differs by a single letter.
Every si for 1 <= i <= k is in wordList. Note that beginWord does not need to be in wordList.
sk == endWord

Given two words, beginWord and endWord, and a dictionary wordList, return all the shortest transformation sequences from beginWord to endWord, or an empty list if no such sequence exists. Each sequence should be returned as a list of the words [beginWord, s₁, s₂, ..., sk].

  Example 1:

Input: beginWord = "hit", endWord = "cog", wordList = ["hot","dot","dog","lot","log","cog"] Output: [["hit","hot","dot","dog","cog"],["hit","hot","lot","log","cog"]] Explanation: There are 2 shortest transformation sequences: "hit" -> "hot" -> "dot" -> "dog" -> "cog" "hit" -> "hot" -> "lot" -> "log" -> "cog"

Example 2:

Input: beginWord = "hit", endWord = "cog", wordList = ["hot","dot","dog","lot","log"] Output: [] Explanation: The endWord "cog" is not in wordList, therefore there is no valid transformation sequence.

  Constraints:

1 <= beginWord.length <= 5
endWord.length == beginWord.length
1 <= wordList.length <= 500
wordList[i].length == beginWord.length
beginWord, endWord, and wordList[i] consist of lowercase English letters.
beginWord != endWord
All the words in wordList are unique.
The sum of all shortest transformation sequences does not exceed 10⁵.

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