Depth First Search (DFS) Explained: Algorithm, Examples, and Code
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- čas přidán 31. 05. 2024
- In this video, I explain the fundamental ideas behind the Depth First Search (DFS) graph algorithm. We first introduce the concept of a graph traversal. We then go through several examples of DFS to provide intuition. Afterwards, we then go through both a recursive and iterative implementation with provided code. We discuss the differences between the implementation and also make a distinction between a preorder and post order DFS traversal. We then finish the video off with some practical and fun applications of depth first search in graph theory.
0:00 Intro and Preview
0:50 Graph Traversal
1:20 DFS Walkthrough and Examples
6:26 Recursive Implementation
11:08 Iterative Implementation
15:06 Preorder vs Postorder DFS
17:01 DFS Applications
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This video wouldn't be possible without the open source manim library created by 3blue1brown: github.com/3b1b/manim
Here is link to the repository that contains the code used to generate the animations in this video: github.com/nipunramk/Reducible
This is how I explore caves in Minecraft.
I had the exact same idea. Lol ;)
This is a surprisingly intuitive comparison. Thanks a lot. +
except caves in minecraft often have no dead end
@@ElektrykFlaaj yeah and they often loop back too
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I feel there are some channels that definitely feel like a rip-off, like vcubingx. It kinda hurts to see a 3b1b-ish thing with lackluster explanations and general quality. This channels pretty good though, and it’s improving noticeably.
Eh I don't know, they do feel a bit samey. The way things are shown and animated is pretty consistent, I think the biggest thing differentiating them from being a ripoff is their specific style. For example, 3B1B uses the little Pi characters to add more personality, I think that just shows even if they use manim there are ways to differentiate yourself in other ways.
By the way, a very interesting point is that you can convert any recursive function into a stack + while len(stack) > 0 loop because basically that's exactly how computers do that on a low level anyway. In some languages it has some advantages, because while function call stack may be limited, a stack as a structure is practically unlimited, and that lets us achieve very deep levels of recursion without stumbling into stack overflow.
Wow thanks this made me dig deeper and understand even better.
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Thanks for the kind comment!
The video is great, as always. However, I have a suggestion: maybe at the end of the video, you can ask some graph questions and let us think how to slove, and finally, you can give the java or python code and the step of it. (just like your recursion video because your recursion video is absolutely amazing.)
Thank for the feedback, will try to incorporate more problems in future videos.
great video! I'll also point out (as a few others have hinted) that the iterative approach is very important for large graphs. Default stack sizes on modern OS' are still typically quite small, and it's easy to construct pathological graphs which will cause a stack overflow with a recursive DFS implementation. Using an explicit (and heap-allocated) stack as in the iterative approach works around this (until the machine runs out of memory, of course!), and is a crucial reason why this approach is often chosen.
Hi can u please tell me more about this? For example how is it possibile to construct a "pathological" graph. i'm assuming that a pathological graph is a graph whose nodes are linked in such a way that when the DFS algorithm is called on the graph, it goes into an infinite recursive loop that overflows the stack.
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This was a great video, explaining not only DFS, but both recursive and iterative versions of it, and presenting applications for DFS, all accompanied by illustrations to make it even more clear. Cant thank you enough!
The presentation of how to use a stack and pop together was really interesting. I always had trouble with while loops, this pattern makes it so apparent when it is best used.
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absolutely the best explanation on DFS that I have encountered.
Please make more videos on graph theory and algorithms.
Thank you for making DFS and BFS understandable. Simple and on point
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2:22 is an example of the classic Cycle Detection algorithm where DFS is used to detect any cycle in a graph G. Child node 2 has a "back-edge" that connects it with the root node 0. This is basically a cycle in the graph.
Great video, great teaching, and great animation used here to make things understandable by going into a deeper level of abstraction of all the steps and processes. Before this video, I watched 4-5 videos on DFS that appeared on top after searching and had more views (even in millions) but couldn't understand them clearly. After all, this is the ultimate video that quenched my thirst. Thank you sir for your great content. This channel should grow more and more fast.
Great Content Man and that Recursion video is Awsome . Keep Making more videos.
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Brilliant video. Those animations really helped to understand the whole process. Thanks!
Okay, I'm 5 minutes in but I had to comment. This is, hands down, the best explanation of DFS I've ever encountered. Thank you so much for this phenomenal video - I hope you keep it up!
looking forward to BFS too! Thank you for posting!
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Great Effort there! Appreciate the time you took to fork Manim and manage it so well for all of us. Regarding the algo in preview, at 8:20, where you mention to maintain boolean values of marked nodes, it should be of size/length - G.order() rather G.size(). For a graph, order = number of vertices = |V| while size = number of edges = |E|. This could cause problems if we have a straight line graph with n nodes connected by (n-1) edges!
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Beautifully animated video, though forgive me if I don't like this way of introducing DFS.
The main problem is that most of the applications could just as well be solved without DFS:
Cycle Detection: DFS does not give you all cycles in the way you described, and just determining whether a graph contains cycles can be done by BFS or similar also.
Finding Connected Components: Any Traversal technique will do nicely.
Topological Sort: Take Kahn's algorithm. The idea there is your reasoning at 18:37, but translated more directly into an algorithm.
Maze: There are several ways to create a maze, but granted this one is elegant :)
This sometimes leaves students wondering whether DFS is just a bad alternative to BFS for the path finding problem. It is not!
Of course some applications are harder to explain in a video, but here is a surprisingly useful application somewhat related to your examples:
Partitioning a directed graph into strongly connected components (SCCs, Sets of nodes where you can reach every node from every other node).
This is useful in e.g. model checking, where you want to proove the correctness of a program, which can be reduces to finding an SCC with a special marking and a loop.
Checking whether an SCC has a loop and is marked is usually trivial (loop at least two nodes in the SCC or a reflective edge).
Or you might want to replace SCCs with single nodes, yielding a DAG. This e.g. extends many planning algorithms to handle circular dependencies (exactly the SCCs with several nodes).
Basic idea without any proofs:
Every SCC is represented by the node within it first encountered during DFS.
Start by assuming every node is its own SCC and start the DFS.
If you keep a hashset of all the nodes currently on the stack (or mark nodes as on the stack), you can efficiently determine whether a node was encountered twice along a path.
If that happens, you found a loop and can merge all SCCs on the stack from the first encounter to the second.
An SCC is guaranteed to no longer grow once DFS leaves it (through the node representing it, which you can detect).
At that point, note the SCC down.
Side node: Like in your example, the SCCs outputted this way are topologically sorted.
Sadly, most students never get to learn these more useful applications of DFS, but hey, thats why I'm writing long comments :)
Thanks for reading!
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This seems like a very useful algorithm to know, I feel like I can already see some applications of it
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Thanks for great explanation.
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best video of DFS for sure
Perfectly done. Thanks
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Thank you, I managed to implement this very easily. I am not a programmer and my itterative approach could only handle branches and cycles.
Great video!
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Understood a lot
I guess It takes a lot of efforts to make this video. Well done! The details are handled well. e.g. same nodes added to the stack multiple times but only processed once due to the visited check. It is better than the solution in CLRS
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Brilliant, thank you!
Learnt 2 neat things about Graph algo from this video:
- Reverse of DFS post-order is the same as topologically sorted graph
- DFS can be used to generate maze. I always thought some dude spent hours to design mazes in the print newspapers. You are telling me it was just a DFS 😂
Amazing video!