Skip to content

Check for symmetry in _graph_from_weighted_sparse_matrix #782

Description

@psl-schaefer

If one creates a weighted, undirected graph from an adjacency matrix, wouldn't it make sense to check if the adjacency matrix is symmetric? This check was also introduced in rigraph I think, see igraph/rigraph#182.

I am referring to this function:

def _graph_from_weighted_sparse_matrix(

A simple check could be something like symmetric = not np.any((matrix!=matrix.T).data) (here assuming that it is scipy.sparse.csr_matrix).

Here is a simple example (not the most efficient way to check the behavior though):

import numpy as np
from scipy.sparse import csr_matrix
import igraph as ig
rng = np.random.default_rng(0)
n = int(1e3)
sparse_adj = rng.choice(np.array([0, 1, 2]),
                        size=(n**2), replace=True, 
                        p=np.array([0.9, 0.05, 0.05])).reshape(n, n).astype(np.float64)
sparse_adj = csr_matrix(sparse_adj)
symmetric = not np.any((sparse_adj!=sparse_adj.T).data)
print(f"{symmetric=}")
g = ig.Graph.Weighted_Adjacency(sparse_adj, 
                                mode="undirected",
                                attr="weight")

Activity

Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment

Metadata

Metadata

Assignees

No one assigned

    Labels

    Type

    No type

    Projects

    No projects

      Milestone

      No milestone

      Relationships

      None yet

      Development

      No branches or pull requests

      Issue actions