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[Port] A proposal of an all_simple_paths function implementation #20

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this is a port of #1540

Add a function that finds all simple paths between two nodes
in a graph.
To improve memory effeciency, make the stack store only parent node and
index.
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What about making the default cutoff smaller? typemax(T) is just completely impractical right? Even in 32 bit int that is ~10^10. What about min(typemax(T), nv(g)^3) or something?

Also, I think we should throw an exception if you hit the cutoff. That way people know that they should either increase the cutoff and try again or give up on enumerating all the paths in the graph. Silently giving an incomplete enumeration isn't the right answer.

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@etienneINSA, @matbesancon, Any thoughts on raising an exception if we don't yield all the simple paths? I've never needed all the simple paths, so I don't really know the application context, but I would expect that if I got a partial result, it would come with some return code I could check, or exception that I needed to catch.

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A helper function that updates iterator state.
For internal use only.
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A helper function that updates iterator state.
For internal use only.
A helper function that updates the simple path iterator state.

Internal use is already implied by the underscore

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Any thoughts on raising an exception if we don't yield all the simple paths?

When does this happen? I didn't see this path in the code?

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Any thoughts on raising an exception if we don't yield all the simple paths?

When does this happen? I didn't see this path in the code?

This is not implemented yet, just a thought on if we need to implement it.

Silently giving an incomplete enumeration isn't the right answer.

Agreed. I don't have a strong opinion on how to do that, but it is also possible to just return a flag.
Maybe we can implement this as an iterator on simple paths ? (So no cutoff needed)

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gdalle commented Mar 10, 2022

Related to #106

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What is the current status of this PR? I.e. who's turn is is to review/write code?

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gdalle commented Jul 24, 2022

What is the current status of this PR? I.e. who's turn is is to review/write code?

I was not aware we had defined turns, I thought it was more of a "whoever has time does their bit". As far as I'm concerned, I need to hand in my thesis manuscript in a month so i'm out of the equation for now

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What is the current status of this PR? I.e. who's turn is is to review/write code?

I was not aware we had defined turns, I thought it was more of a "whoever has time does their bit". As far as I'm concerned, I need to hand in my thesis manuscript in a month so i'm out of the equation for now

No of course there is no formal process, I was just trying to understand where we are :)

Good look with your manuscript,, I will try to avoid pinging you any further then for now.

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gdalle commented Jul 24, 2022

Good look with your manuscript,, I will try to avoid pinging you any further then for now.

On the contrary, do ping me when you need a quick opinion, it's the only way you'll get my attention ^^ But I won't be able to contribute lengthy reviews or code until the summer has elapsed

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@samurai-kant We need this

struct SimplePathIterator{T <: Integer}
g::AbstractGraph
source::T # Starting node
targets::Set{T} # Target nodes
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This doesn't have to be a Set, right? Maybe just make it targets::T

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This is designed to support multi-targets, and I wanted to be consistent with the networkx implementation.
Users can use the single target API :
all_simple_paths(g::AbstractGraph, source::T, target::T; cutoff::T=typemax(T)) where T <: Integer

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By using outneighbors, does this work for directed and undirected graphs?

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i-aki-y commented Apr 4, 2023

Hi, I am the author of the original implementation.
Thank you for being so interested in my PR. I recently found this project!

I will answer some questions.

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By using outneighbors, does this work for directed and undirected graphs?

Yes. This support both. See the example below.

println("undir:", collect(all_simple_paths(cycle_graph(4), 1, [3])))
println("dir:", collect(all_simple_paths(cycle_digraph(4), 1, [3])))
> undir[[1, 2, 3], [1, 4, 3]]
> dir[[1, 2, 3]]

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What about making the default cutoff smaller? typemax(T) is just completely impractical right? Even in 32 bit int that is ~10^10. What about min(typemax(T), nv(g)^3) or something?

The resulting paths do not have any loop. So the cutoff upper bound is: nv(g), the paths that visit all nodes. Here, I intended to set no limit for the path length by using typemax. Note that the cutoff does not mean the number of outputs but the maximum length of each individual path, in other words, the max depth of the search path.

Also, I think we should throw an exception if you hit the cutoff. That way people know that they should either increase the cutoff and try again or give up on enumerating all the paths in the graph. Silently giving an incomplete enumeration isn't the right answer.

Would you clarify the meaning of "incomplete enumeration" in your comment?
If a user set cutoff=c, the user expects the paths whose lengths are less than or equal to c, and the function returns all paths that satisfy the condition. In that sense, the enumeration is complete, I think.
If the user wants to limit the iteration count and restart it afterward, the user can use Iterators.Stateful and Iterators.take.
See:

g = complete_graph(5)
path_iter = Iterators.Stateful(all_simple_paths(g, 1, 2))
println("first 3:", collect(Iterators.take(path_iter, 3)))
println("rests:", collect(path_iter))
> first 3:Any[[1, 2], [1, 3, 2], [1, 3, 4, 2]]
> rests:Any[[1, 3, 4, 5, 2], [1, 3, 5, 2], [1, 3, 5, 4, 2], [1, 4, 2], [1, 4, 3, 2], [1, 4, 3, 5, 2], [1, 4, 5, 2], [1, 4, 5, 3, 2], [1, 5, 2], [1, 5, 3, 2], [1, 5, 3, 4, 2], [1, 5, 4, 2], [1, 5, 4, 3, 2]]

If you want to increase the depth gradually, we need to implement a breadth-first path search. It is possible, but I think the bfs requires much more memory footprint.

Please let me know if there is anything I can do to help you move forward with your review.

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using DataStructures

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all_simple_paths(g, source, targets, cutoff)
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all_simple_paths(g, source, targets, cutoff)
all_simple_paths(g, source, targets; cutoff)

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Thank you, and sorry that this got stalled, @i-aki-y . I think this is fine, setting the cutoff to typemax(Int) just means there is no cut-off which is a reasonable default even if unsuitable for large graphs.

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I have no push access, can't proceed here (e.g. resolving the conflicts).

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gdalle commented Feb 21, 2024

It's weird, cause as a member of JuliaGraphs you should be able to work on this PR. Maybe @etiennedeg can give you access to his branch?

thchr added a commit to thchr/Graphs.jl that referenced this pull request Mar 18, 2024
- this updates the port of sbromberger/LightGraphs.jl#1540 from JuliaGraphs#20
- has a number of simplifications relative to original implementation
- original implementation by @i_aki_y
- cutoff now defaults to `nv(g)`

Co-authored-by: i_aki_y
Co-authored-by: etiennedeg
thchr added a commit to thchr/Graphs.jl that referenced this pull request Mar 18, 2024
- this updates the port of sbromberger/LightGraphs.jl#1540 from JuliaGraphs#20
- has a number of simplifications relative to original implementation
- original implementation by @i_aki_y
- cutoff now defaults to `nv(g)`

Co-authored-by: @i_aki_y
Co-authored-by: @etiennedeg
thchr added a commit to thchr/Graphs.jl that referenced this pull request Mar 18, 2024
- this updates the port of sbromberger/LightGraphs.jl#1540 from JuliaGraphs#20
- has a number of simplifications relative to original implementation
- original implementation by @i-aki-y
- cutoff now defaults to `nv(g)`

Co-authored-by: @i-aki-y
Co-authored-by: @etiennedeg
thchr added a commit to thchr/Graphs.jl that referenced this pull request Mar 18, 2024
- this updates the port of sbromberger/LightGraphs.jl#1540 from JuliaGraphs#20
- has a number of simplifications relative to original implementation
- original implementation by @i-aki-y
- cutoff now defaults to `nv(g)`

Co-authored-by: @i-aki-y
Co-authored-by: Etienne dg <[email protected]>
thchr added a commit to thchr/Graphs.jl that referenced this pull request Mar 18, 2024
- this updates the port of sbromberger/LightGraphs.jl#1540 from JuliaGraphs#20
- has a number of simplifications relative to original implementation
- original implementation by @i-aki-y
- cutoff now defaults to `nv(g)`

Co-authored-by: akiyuki ishikawa <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Etienne dg <[email protected]>
gdalle added a commit that referenced this pull request Apr 5, 2024
* `all_simple_paths`: update PR #20

- this updates the port of sbromberger/LightGraphs.jl#1540 from #20
- has a number of simplifications relative to original implementation
- original implementation by @i-aki-y
- cutoff now defaults to `nv(g)`

Co-authored-by: akiyuki ishikawa <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Etienne dg <[email protected]>

* fixes to tests & doctests

* improve docstring

* run JuliaFormatter

- `format(Graphs, overwrite=true)`

* bump to v1.9.1

* fix docs

* address code-review

* fix formatting

* special-case  `u in vs` input: include 0-length path `[u]` in iterates

* updates after code review

* Update src/traversals/all_simple_paths.jl

Co-authored-by: Guillaume Dalle <[email protected]>

* Update src/traversals/all_simple_paths.jl

Co-authored-by: Guillaume Dalle <[email protected]>

* Update src/traversals/all_simple_paths.jl

Co-authored-by: Guillaume Dalle <[email protected]>

* Apply suggestions from code review

Co-authored-by: Guillaume Dalle <[email protected]>

* more updates from code-review

* format

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Co-authored-by: akiyuki ishikawa <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Etienne dg <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Guillaume Dalle <[email protected]>
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gdalle commented Apr 5, 2024

Superseded by #353

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