Dear Tiago,
I have a directed graph of about half a million nodes and approximately a million edges following scale free behaviour and a power law degree distribution. To test some of my hypothesis, I would like to generate random smaller graphs (about 50 up to 200 nodes) representative of the big one.
When I used a sample function that samples straight away from the real distribution of the big network, I have following problems:
- I generate unconnected nodes with both 0 in AND out degree. - I generate small sub parts of a few nodes that are not connected to the main graph. - If only sampling from nodes with at least 1 degree, the generated graph is coherent, but not representative anymore as I need a big portion of nodes with either only one in or one out degree.
Here is the part of my script I used for that, where samples are drawn from dictionaries of the degrees:
def sample_in(): a=np.random.randint(num) k_in = in_degrees[a] return k_in
def sample_out(): if sample_in()==0: b=np.random.randint(num_out) k_out=out_zero_zeros.values()[b] return k_out else: b=np.random.randint(num) k_out=out_degrees[b] return k_out
N=200 g=gt.random_graph(N, lambda:(sample_in(), sample_out()), model="constrained-configuration", directed=True)
I also tried sampling from a list of tuples as you have mentioned before in the forum, but I didn't receive any results, as the tuples randomly drawn from my list might not be combinable.
degs=[(7,1),(4,3),(5,6),(2,4),(6,8),(2,0),(3,5),(0,3),(2,7),(2,1)] g = gt.random_graph(4, lambda i: degs[i], directed=True)
- Is there any option I could active that would help me in those cases I described above? - Is there a better way how to create representative small networks?
Any help on that issue will be much appreciated.
Best wishes, Jana
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