Efficiently iterating over vertex pairs in graph-tool

Hello all,

I am working on the generation of some random graph model in which
probability of having an edge between two given vertices is some
complicated function. Hence I cannot use in-built models to generate this
graph. Thus, I am using nested for loops to generate it. However, this
makes the code extremely slow. Is it possible to iterate over all the pairs
of vertices efficiently in graph-tool so that there would be sufficient
increase in the speed?

Thank you
Snehal

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There is no magic bullet. If you have to iterate using Python, it will be slow.

I will be writing some documentation explaining how to write C++ extensions
for graph-tool.

In the mean time, depending on your algorithm, you may be able to increase
speed by representing your graph as a sparse matrix (using adjacency()). You
may also try numba, but it will not speedup the interaction with graph-tool.

Best,
Tiago

Thanks Tiago for a quick reply. I think I will write the generation part in
C++/Fortran and save the graph-data, say in the form of an edge list, in a
file which can then be processed using graph-tool. However, I really
appreciate your idea of writing a documentation for explaining the writings
of extensions for graph-tool.

On a side note, since your generalized communities model also needs
different probability value for each pair, I would guess that for
generation of such graphs, you have written a code in C++ and that has not
been included in graph-tool. Is there a plan to include the same in the
graph-tool sometime in near future?

Thanks
Snehal

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I have code for the model inference --- which is different from network
generation. But I do plan to include it in the library, when time permits.

Best,
Tigo