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Check Binary Tree Balance

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Problem

In a Meta-style coding interview, you may be asked to validate whether a binary tree is structurally balanced enough for efficient traversal. Given the root of a binary tree, determine whether it is height-balanced.

A binary tree is height-balanced if, for every node, the absolute difference between the heights of its left and right subtrees is at most 1.

Formal Specification

  • Input: root, the root node of a binary tree, or null for an empty tree.
  • Output: True if the tree is height-balanced; otherwise False.

Constraints

  • The number of nodes in the tree is in the range [0, 5000]
  • -10^4 <= Node.val <= 10^4
  • A tree is height-balanced if every node has left and right subtree heights differing by at most 1

Function Signature

def is_balanced(root):
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