A Python package for graph kernels, graph edit distances and graph pre-image problem.

• python>=3.6
• numpy>=1.16.2
• scipy>=1.1.0
• matplotlib>=3.1.0
• networkx>=2.2
• scikit-learn>=0.20.0
• tabulate>=0.8.2
• tqdm>=4.26.0
• control>=0.8.2 (for generalized random walk kernels only)
• slycot>=0.3.3 (for generalized random walk kernels only, which requires a fortran compiler (e.g., gfortran) and BLAS/LAPACK (e.g. liblapack-dev))
• Cython~=0.29.33 (for GEDLIB only)

• Install stable version from PyPI (may not be up-to-date):

$ pip install graphkit-learn

• Install latest version from GitHub:

$ git clone https://github.com/jajupmochi/graphkit-learn.git
$ cd graphkit-learn/
$ python setup.py install

A series of tests can be run to check if the library works correctly:

$ pip install -U pip pytest codecov coverage pytest-cov
$ pytest -v --cov-config=.coveragerc --cov-report term --cov=gklearn gklearn/tests/

A series of demos of using the library can be found on Google Colab and in the example folder.

Check notebooks directory for more demos:

• notebooks directory includes test codes of graph kernels based on linear patterns;
• notebooks/tests directory includes codes that test some libraries and functions;
• notebooks/utils directory includes some useful tools, such as a Gram matrix checker and a function to get properties of datasets;
• notebooks/else directory includes other codes that we used for experiments.

The docs of the library can be found here.

• Based on walks
  • The common walk kernel [1]
    • Exponential
    • Geometric
  • The marginalized kernel
    • With tottering [2]
    • Without tottering [7]
  • The generalized random walk kernel [3]
    • Sylvester equation
    • Conjugate gradient
    • Fixed-point iterations
    • Spectral decomposition
• Based on paths
  • The shortest path kernel [4]
  • The structural shortest path kernel [5]
  • The path kernel up to length h [6]
    • The Tanimoto kernel
    • The MinMax kernel
• Non-linear kernels
  • The treelet kernel [10]
  • Weisfeiler-Lehman kernel [11]
    • Subtree

A demo of computing graph kernels can be found on Google Colab and in the examples folder.

A demo of generating graph preimages can be found on Google Colab and in the examples folder.

GEDLIB is an easily extensible C++ library for (suboptimally) computing the graph edit distance between attributed graphs. A Python interface for GEDLIB is integrated in this library, based on gedlibpy library.

• Python’s multiprocessing.Pool module is applied to perform parallelization on the computations of all kernels as well as the model selection.
• The Fast Computation of Shortest Path Kernel (FCSP) method [8] is implemented in the random walk kernel, the shortest path kernel, as well as the structural shortest path kernel where FCSP is applied on both vertex and edge kernels.
• The trie data structure [9] is employed in the path kernel up to length h to store paths in graphs.

• This library uses multiprocessing.Pool.imap_unordered function to do the parallelization, which may not be able to run correctly under Windows system. For now, Windows users may need to comment the parallel codes and uncomment the codes below them which run serially. We will consider adding a parameter to control serial or parallel computations as needed.

• Some modules (such as Numpy, Scipy, sklearn) apply OpenBLAS to perform parallel computation by default, which causes conflicts with other parallelization modules such as multiprossing.Pool, highly increasing the computing time. By setting its thread to 1, OpenBLAS is forced to use a single thread/CPU, thus avoids the conflicts. For now, this procedure has to be done manually. Under Linux, type this command in terminal before running the code:

$ export OPENBLAS_NUM_THREADS=1

Or add export OPENBLAS_NUM_THREADS=1 at the end of your ~/.bashrc file, then run

$ source ~/.bashrc

to make this effective permanently.

Check this paper for detailed description of graph kernels and experimental results:

Linlin Jia, Benoit Gaüzère, and Paul Honeine. Graph Kernels Based on Linear Patterns: Theoretical and Experimental Comparisons. working paper or preprint, March 2019. URL https://hal-normandie-univ.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02053946.

A comparison of performances of graph kernels on benchmark datasets can be found here.

Fork the library and open a pull request! Make your own contribute to the community!

• Linlin Jia, LITIS, INSA Rouen Normandie
• Benoit Gaüzère, LITIS, INSA Rouen Normandie
• Paul Honeine, LITIS, Université de Rouen Normandie

If you have used graphkit-learn in your publication, please cite the the following paper:

@article{JIA2021,
	title = "graphkit-learn: A Python Library for Graph Kernels Based on Linear Patterns",
	journal = "Pattern Recognition Letters",
	year = "2021",
	issn = "0167-8655",
	doi = "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2021.01.003",
	url = "http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167865521000131",
	author = "Linlin Jia and Benoit Gaüzère and Paul Honeine",
	keywords = "Graph Kernels, Linear Patterns, Python Implementation",
	abstract = "This paper presents graphkit-learn, the first Python library for efficient computation of graph kernels based on linear patterns, able to address various types of graphs. Graph kernels based on linear patterns are thoroughly implemented, each with specific computing methods, as well as two well-known graph kernels based on non-linear patterns for comparative analysis. Since computational complexity is an Achilles’ heel of graph kernels, we provide several strategies to address this critical issue, including parallelization, the trie data structure, and the FCSP method that we extend to other kernels and edge comparison. All proposed strategies save orders of magnitudes of computing time and memory usage. Moreover, all the graph kernels can be simply computed with a single Python statement, thus are appealing to researchers and practitioners. For the convenience of use, an advanced model selection procedure is provided for both regression and classification problems. Experiments on synthesized datasets and 11 real-world benchmark datasets show the relevance of the proposed library."
}

This research was supported by CSC (China Scholarship Council) and the French national research agency (ANR) under the grant APi (ANR-18-CE23-0014). The authors would like to thank the CRIANN (Le Centre Régional Informatique et d’Applications Numériques de Normandie) for providing computational resources.

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