CGE.jl

Julia package to compare graph embeddings.

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Details of the framework

Article containing details about 2.0+ release is available in pre-print: A Multi-purposed Unsupervised Framework for Comparing Embeddings of Undirected and Directed Graphs

Additional experiments for undirected framework version based on ABCD graphs are available in: Evaluating Node Embeddings of Complex Networks

There is also paper A Scalable Unsupervised Framework for Comparing Graph Embeddings presented at WAW2020 with publication in Springer LNCS.

Framework version without landmarks (written in C) is available under: https://github.com/ftheberge/Comparing_Graph_Embeddings

Installation

The current version uses Julia 1.6. Install CGE.jl by running Julia REPL, switching to package manager by pressing ] and running:

add https://github.com/KrainskiL/CGE.jl

In order to use the CLI for the package you should locate CGE_CLI.jl file after the installation.

The directory with CGE_CLI.jl file and example files can be found by running the following command in Julia:

using CGE; cd(pwd, joinpath(dirname(pathof(CGE)), "..", "example"))

Make sure to copy the CLI file from this location (as it is read only).

Alternatively you can just download CGE_CLI.jl from GitHub repository - it is located in example/ folder.

Finally you might also download the whole repository and extract the CGE_CLI.jl file from it.

git clone https://github.com/KrainskiL/CGE.jl
mv CGE.jl/example/CGE_CLI.jl .
julia CGE_CLI.jl

Docker instructions

The repository contains Dockerfile to build the Docker image locally. The remote image is also available on Docker Hub and is used in a docker-compose.yaml file. Running docker-compose run --rm app bash will initiate interactive session with input and output folders mounted in the working directory.

Running the code

Code computes the global and local score for specified graph, embedding and graph's clustering. The lower score value is the better.

Format:

julia CGE_CLI.jl -g edgelist -e embedding [-c communities] [--seed seed] [--samples-local samples] [-v] [-d] [--split-global] [-l [landmarks]] [-f [forced]] [--force-exact] [-m method]

## required flags:
-g edgelist: rows should contain two whitespace separated vertices ids (edge) and optional weights in third column
-e embedding: rows should contain whitespace separated embeddings of vertices
## optional flags:
-c communities: rows should contain cluster identifiers of vertices with optional vertices ids in the first column
if no file is given communities are calculated with Louvain algorithm
--seed seed: RNG seed for local measure sampling
--samples-local samples: no. samples to draw for local score calculation
-v: flag for debugging messages
-d: flag for usage of directed framework
--split-global: flag for using splitted global score; kept for backward compatibility
-l landmarks: required number of landmarks; 4*sqrt(no.vertices) by default
-f forced: required number of forced splits of a cluster; 4 by default
if both 'landmarks' and 'forced' are provided the higher value of landmarks is taken
--force-exact: landmarks are triggered automatically above 10000 nodes; use this flag to override the behaviour
-m method: chosen ladnmark creation method: `rss`, `rss2`, `size`, `diameter`

For instance, while in example folder run:

julia ./CGE_CLI.jl -g 10k.edgelist -c 10k.ecg -e 10k.embedding -l 200 --seed 42

Result consists of 4 elements:

Best alpha for global score
Best global score
Best global external score (relevant with --split-global flag)
Best global internal score (relevant with --split-global flag)
Best alpha for local score
Best local score
Estimated error of local score

[6.25, 0.002961243353776198, 0.0, 0.0, 9.75, 0.0017000000000000348, 0.000807441501038938]

File Formats

For a graph with n nodes, the nodes can be represented with numbers 1 to n or 0 to n-1.

Two input files are required to run the algorithm:

the graph (undirected or directed), represented by a sequence of edges, 1 per line and with optional weights in third column
the node embedding in on of the supported formats (see below)

Additional file with the node's cluster number (1 per line) may be provided. If it's missing communities are calculated automatically with Louvain algorithm.

Example of graph (edgelist) file

Nodes can be 0-based or 1-based. One edge per line with whitespace between nodes. For directed graph edge is directed from the left node to the right node.

Additional weights may be provided in third column (both integers and floats are supported).

Example of clustering file

Clusters can be 0-based or 1-based. If not provided, clusters will be automatically calculated with Louvain algorithm.

First variant with clusters IDs only - must be ordered by nodes IDs

Second variant with clusters IDs and nodes IDs

Example of embedding file

Nodes are 0-based or 1-based in any order. Three formats are supported

First format - unordered embedding

First column indicates node number, the rest of the line is d-dimensional embedding.

21 0.960689 -2.28209 3.65194 0.272646 -3.01281 1.0245 -0.329389 -2.95956
33 0.702187 -2.14331 4.25541 0.372346 -3.16427 1.41296 -0.390471 -4.49782
3 0.854487 -2.30527 4.10575 0.370613 -3.04878 1.46481 -0.120326 -4.02328
29 0.673825 -2.19518 4.00447 0.650003 -2.74663 0.757385 -0.505723 -3.2947
32 0.750248 -2.26306 4.04495 0.143616 -3.02735 1.49937 -0.400896 -4.04177
25 0.831608 -2.191 4.04712 0.786012 -2.85804 1.11308 -0.391722 -3.4645
28 1.14632 -2.20708 4.11004 0.338067 -2.86409 1.01202 -0.485711 -3.50161
...

Second format - ordered embedding

Only d-dimensional embedding in order of nodes is stored in file.

0.854487 -2.30527 4.10575 0.370613 -3.04878 1.46481 -0.120326 -4.02328
0.960689 -2.28209 3.65194 0.272646 -3.01281 1.0245 -0.329389 -2.95956
0.831608 -2.191 4.04712 0.786012 -2.85804 1.11308 -0.391722 -3.4645
1.14632 -2.20708 4.11004 0.338067 -2.86409 1.01202 -0.485711 -3.50161
0.702187 -2.14331 4.25541 0.372346 -3.16427 1.41296 -0.390471 -4.49782
0.673825 -2.19518 4.00447 0.650003 -2.74663 0.757385 -0.505723 -3.2947
0.750248 -2.26306 4.04495 0.143616 -3.02735 1.49937 -0.400896 -4.04177
...

Third format - node2vec format

First line contains number of nodes and dimension of the embedding. It's stripped during parsing and the rest of the file is handled as either first or second format.

500 8
21 0.960689 -2.28209 3.65194 0.272646 -3.01281 1.0245 -0.329389 -2.95956
33 0.702187 -2.14331 4.25541 0.372346 -3.16427 1.41296 -0.390471 -4.49782
3 0.854487 -2.30527 4.10575 0.370613 -3.04878 1.46481 -0.120326 -4.02328
29 0.673825 -2.19518 4.00447 0.650003 -2.74663 0.757385 -0.505723 -3.2947
32 0.750248 -2.26306 4.04495 0.143616 -3.02735 1.49937 -0.400896 -4.04177
25 0.831608 -2.191 4.04712 0.786012 -2.85804 1.11308 -0.391722 -3.4645
28 1.14632 -2.20708 4.11004 0.338067 -2.86409 1.01202 -0.485711 -3.50161
...

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