Source code for networkx.algorithms.clique

"""Functions for finding and manipulating cliques.

Finding the largest clique in a graph is NP-complete problem, so most of
these algorithms have an exponential running time; for more information,
see the Wikipedia article on the clique problem [1]_.

.. [1] clique problem:: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clique_problem

"""

from collections import defaultdict, deque
from itertools import chain, combinations, islice

import networkx as nx
from networkx.utils import not_implemented_for

__all__ = [
    "find_cliques",
    "find_cliques_recursive",
    "make_max_clique_graph",
    "make_clique_bipartite",
    "node_clique_number",
    "number_of_cliques",
    "enumerate_all_cliques",
    "max_weight_clique",
]


[docs] @not_implemented_for("directed") @nx._dispatchable def enumerate_all_cliques(G): """Returns all cliques in an undirected graph. This function returns an iterator over cliques, each of which is a list of nodes. The iteration is ordered by cardinality of the cliques: first all cliques of size one, then all cliques of size two, etc. Parameters ---------- G : NetworkX graph An undirected graph. Returns ------- iterator An iterator over cliques, each of which is a list of nodes in `G`. The cliques are ordered according to size. Notes ----- To obtain a list of all cliques, use `list(enumerate_all_cliques(G))`. However, be aware that in the worst-case, the length of this list can be exponential in the number of nodes in the graph (for example, when the graph is the complete graph). This function avoids storing all cliques in memory by only keeping current candidate node lists in memory during its search. The implementation is adapted from the algorithm by Zhang, et al. (2005) [1]_ to output all cliques discovered. This algorithm ignores self-loops and parallel edges, since cliques are not conventionally defined with such edges. References ---------- .. [1] Yun Zhang, Abu-Khzam, F.N., Baldwin, N.E., Chesler, E.J., Langston, M.A., Samatova, N.F., "Genome-Scale Computational Approaches to Memory-Intensive Applications in Systems Biology". *Supercomputing*, 2005. Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE SC 2005 Conference, pp. 12, 12--18 Nov. 2005. <https://doi.org/10.1109/SC.2005.29>. """ index = {} nbrs = {} for u in G: index[u] = len(index) # Neighbors of u that appear after u in the iteration order of G. nbrs[u] = {v for v in G[u] if v not in index} queue = deque(([u], sorted(nbrs[u], key=index.__getitem__)) for u in G) # Loop invariants: # 1. len(base) is nondecreasing. # 2. (base + cnbrs) is sorted with respect to the iteration order of G. # 3. cnbrs is a set of common neighbors of nodes in base. while queue: base, cnbrs = map(list, queue.popleft()) yield base for i, u in enumerate(cnbrs): # Use generators to reduce memory consumption. queue.append( ( chain(base, [u]), filter(nbrs[u].__contains__, islice(cnbrs, i + 1, None)), ) )
[docs] @not_implemented_for("directed") @nx._dispatchable def find_cliques(G, nodes=None): """Returns all maximal cliques in an undirected graph. For each node *n*, a *maximal clique for n* is a largest complete subgraph containing *n*. The largest maximal clique is sometimes called the *maximum clique*. This function returns an iterator over cliques, each of which is a list of nodes. It is an iterative implementation, so should not suffer from recursion depth issues. This function accepts a list of `nodes` and only the maximal cliques containing all of these `nodes` are returned. It can considerably speed up the running time if some specific cliques are desired. Parameters ---------- G : NetworkX graph An undirected graph. nodes : list, optional (default=None) If provided, only yield *maximal cliques* containing all nodes in `nodes`. If `nodes` isn't a clique itself, a ValueError is raised. Returns ------- iterator An iterator over maximal cliques, each of which is a list of nodes in `G`. If `nodes` is provided, only the maximal cliques containing all the nodes in `nodes` are returned. The order of cliques is arbitrary. Raises ------ ValueError If `nodes` is not a clique. Examples -------- >>> from pprint import pprint # For nice dict formatting >>> G = nx.karate_club_graph() >>> sum(1 for c in nx.find_cliques(G)) # The number of maximal cliques in G 36 >>> max(nx.find_cliques(G), key=len) # The largest maximal clique in G [0, 1, 2, 3, 13] The size of the largest maximal clique is known as the *clique number* of the graph, which can be found directly with: >>> max(len(c) for c in nx.find_cliques(G)) 5 One can also compute the number of maximal cliques in `G` that contain a given node. The following produces a dictionary keyed by node whose values are the number of maximal cliques in `G` that contain the node: >>> pprint({n: sum(1 for c in nx.find_cliques(G) if n in c) for n in G}) {0: 13, 1: 6, 2: 7, 3: 3, 4: 2, 5: 3, 6: 3, 7: 1, 8: 3, 9: 2, 10: 2, 11: 1, 12: 1, 13: 2, 14: 1, 15: 1, 16: 1, 17: 1, 18: 1, 19: 2, 20: 1, 21: 1, 22: 1, 23: 3, 24: 2, 25: 2, 26: 1, 27: 3, 28: 2, 29: 2, 30: 2, 31: 4, 32: 9, 33: 14} Or, similarly, the maximal cliques in `G` that contain a given node. For example, the 4 maximal cliques that contain node 31: >>> [c for c in nx.find_cliques(G) if 31 in c] [[0, 31], [33, 32, 31], [33, 28, 31], [24, 25, 31]] See Also -------- find_cliques_recursive A recursive version of the same algorithm. Notes ----- To obtain a list of all maximal cliques, use `list(find_cliques(G))`. However, be aware that in the worst-case, the length of this list can be exponential in the number of nodes in the graph. This function avoids storing all cliques in memory by only keeping current candidate node lists in memory during its search. This implementation is based on the algorithm published by Bron and Kerbosch (1973) [1]_, as adapted by Tomita, Tanaka and Takahashi (2006) [2]_ and discussed in Cazals and Karande (2008) [3]_. It essentially unrolls the recursion used in the references to avoid issues of recursion stack depth (for a recursive implementation, see :func:`find_cliques_recursive`). This algorithm ignores self-loops and parallel edges, since cliques are not conventionally defined with such edges. References ---------- .. [1] Bron, C. and Kerbosch, J. "Algorithm 457: finding all cliques of an undirected graph". *Communications of the ACM* 16, 9 (Sep. 1973), 575--577. <http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=362342.362367> .. [2] Etsuji Tomita, Akira Tanaka, Haruhisa Takahashi, "The worst-case time complexity for generating all maximal cliques and computational experiments", *Theoretical Computer Science*, Volume 363, Issue 1, Computing and Combinatorics, 10th Annual International Conference on Computing and Combinatorics (COCOON 2004), 25 October 2006, Pages 28--42 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tcs.2006.06.015> .. [3] F. Cazals, C. Karande, "A note on the problem of reporting maximal cliques", *Theoretical Computer Science*, Volume 407, Issues 1--3, 6 November 2008, Pages 564--568, <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tcs.2008.05.010> """ if len(G) == 0: return adj = {u: {v for v in G[u] if v != u} for u in G} # Initialize Q with the given nodes and subg, cand with their nbrs Q = nodes[:] if nodes is not None else [] cand = set(G) for node in Q: if node not in cand: raise ValueError(f"The given `nodes` {nodes} do not form a clique") cand &= adj[node] if not cand: yield Q[:] return subg = cand.copy() stack = [] Q.append(None) u = max(subg, key=lambda u: len(cand & adj[u])) ext_u = cand - adj[u] try: while True: if ext_u: q = ext_u.pop() cand.remove(q) Q[-1] = q adj_q = adj[q] subg_q = subg & adj_q if not subg_q: yield Q[:] else: cand_q = cand & adj_q if cand_q: stack.append((subg, cand, ext_u)) Q.append(None) subg = subg_q cand = cand_q u = max(subg, key=lambda u: len(cand & adj[u])) ext_u = cand - adj[u] else: Q.pop() subg, cand, ext_u = stack.pop() except IndexError: pass
# TODO Should this also be not implemented for directed graphs?
[docs] @nx._dispatchable def find_cliques_recursive(G, nodes=None): """Returns all maximal cliques in a graph. For each node *v*, a *maximal clique for v* is a largest complete subgraph containing *v*. The largest maximal clique is sometimes called the *maximum clique*. This function returns an iterator over cliques, each of which is a list of nodes. It is a recursive implementation, so may suffer from recursion depth issues, but is included for pedagogical reasons. For a non-recursive implementation, see :func:`find_cliques`. This function accepts a list of `nodes` and only the maximal cliques containing all of these `nodes` are returned. It can considerably speed up the running time if some specific cliques are desired. Parameters ---------- G : NetworkX graph nodes : list, optional (default=None) If provided, only yield *maximal cliques* containing all nodes in `nodes`. If `nodes` isn't a clique itself, a ValueError is raised. Returns ------- iterator An iterator over maximal cliques, each of which is a list of nodes in `G`. If `nodes` is provided, only the maximal cliques containing all the nodes in `nodes` are yielded. The order of cliques is arbitrary. Raises ------ ValueError If `nodes` is not a clique. See Also -------- find_cliques An iterative version of the same algorithm. See docstring for examples. Notes ----- To obtain a list of all maximal cliques, use `list(find_cliques_recursive(G))`. However, be aware that in the worst-case, the length of this list can be exponential in the number of nodes in the graph. This function avoids storing all cliques in memory by only keeping current candidate node lists in memory during its search. This implementation is based on the algorithm published by Bron and Kerbosch (1973) [1]_, as adapted by Tomita, Tanaka and Takahashi (2006) [2]_ and discussed in Cazals and Karande (2008) [3]_. For a non-recursive implementation, see :func:`find_cliques`. This algorithm ignores self-loops and parallel edges, since cliques are not conventionally defined with such edges. References ---------- .. [1] Bron, C. and Kerbosch, J. "Algorithm 457: finding all cliques of an undirected graph". *Communications of the ACM* 16, 9 (Sep. 1973), 575--577. <http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=362342.362367> .. [2] Etsuji Tomita, Akira Tanaka, Haruhisa Takahashi, "The worst-case time complexity for generating all maximal cliques and computational experiments", *Theoretical Computer Science*, Volume 363, Issue 1, Computing and Combinatorics, 10th Annual International Conference on Computing and Combinatorics (COCOON 2004), 25 October 2006, Pages 28--42 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tcs.2006.06.015> .. [3] F. Cazals, C. Karande, "A note on the problem of reporting maximal cliques", *Theoretical Computer Science*, Volume 407, Issues 1--3, 6 November 2008, Pages 564--568, <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tcs.2008.05.010> """ if len(G) == 0: return iter([]) adj = {u: {v for v in G[u] if v != u} for u in G} # Initialize Q with the given nodes and subg, cand with their nbrs Q = nodes[:] if nodes is not None else [] cand_init = set(G) for node in Q: if node not in cand_init: raise ValueError(f"The given `nodes` {nodes} do not form a clique") cand_init &= adj[node] if not cand_init: return iter([Q]) subg_init = cand_init.copy() def expand(subg, cand): u = max(subg, key=lambda u: len(cand & adj[u])) for q in cand - adj[u]: cand.remove(q) Q.append(q) adj_q = adj[q] subg_q = subg & adj_q if not subg_q: yield Q[:] else: cand_q = cand & adj_q if cand_q: yield from expand(subg_q, cand_q) Q.pop() return expand(subg_init, cand_init)
[docs] @nx._dispatchable(returns_graph=True) def make_max_clique_graph(G, create_using=None): """Returns the maximal clique graph of the given graph. The nodes of the maximal clique graph of `G` are the cliques of `G` and an edge joins two cliques if the cliques are not disjoint. Parameters ---------- G : NetworkX graph create_using : NetworkX graph constructor, optional (default=nx.Graph) Graph type to create. If graph instance, then cleared before populated. Returns ------- NetworkX graph A graph whose nodes are the cliques of `G` and whose edges join two cliques if they are not disjoint. Notes ----- This function behaves like the following code:: import networkx as nx G = nx.make_clique_bipartite(G) cliques = [v for v in G.nodes() if G.nodes[v]["bipartite"] == 0] G = nx.bipartite.projected_graph(G, cliques) G = nx.relabel_nodes(G, {-v: v - 1 for v in G}) It should be faster, though, since it skips all the intermediate steps. """ if create_using is None: B = G.__class__() else: B = nx.empty_graph(0, create_using) cliques = list(enumerate(set(c) for c in find_cliques(G))) # Add a numbered node for each clique. B.add_nodes_from(i for i, c in cliques) # Join cliques by an edge if they share a node. clique_pairs = combinations(cliques, 2) B.add_edges_from((i, j) for (i, c1), (j, c2) in clique_pairs if c1 & c2) return B
[docs] @nx._dispatchable(returns_graph=True) def make_clique_bipartite(G, fpos=None, create_using=None, name=None): """Returns the bipartite clique graph corresponding to `G`. In the returned bipartite graph, the "bottom" nodes are the nodes of `G` and the "top" nodes represent the maximal cliques of `G`. There is an edge from node *v* to clique *C* in the returned graph if and only if *v* is an element of *C*. Parameters ---------- G : NetworkX graph An undirected graph. fpos : bool If True or not None, the returned graph will have an additional attribute, `pos`, a dictionary mapping node to position in the Euclidean plane. create_using : NetworkX graph constructor, optional (default=nx.Graph) Graph type to create. If graph instance, then cleared before populated. Returns ------- NetworkX graph A bipartite graph whose "bottom" set is the nodes of the graph `G`, whose "top" set is the cliques of `G`, and whose edges join nodes of `G` to the cliques that contain them. The nodes of the graph `G` have the node attribute 'bipartite' set to 1 and the nodes representing cliques have the node attribute 'bipartite' set to 0, as is the convention for bipartite graphs in NetworkX. """ B = nx.empty_graph(0, create_using) B.clear() # The "bottom" nodes in the bipartite graph are the nodes of the # original graph, G. B.add_nodes_from(G, bipartite=1) for i, cl in enumerate(find_cliques(G)): # The "top" nodes in the bipartite graph are the cliques. These # nodes get negative numbers as labels. name = -i - 1 B.add_node(name, bipartite=0) B.add_edges_from((v, name) for v in cl) return B
[docs] @nx._dispatchable def node_clique_number(G, nodes=None, cliques=None, separate_nodes=False): """Returns the size of the largest maximal clique containing each given node. Returns a single or list depending on input nodes. An optional list of cliques can be input if already computed. Parameters ---------- G : NetworkX graph An undirected graph. cliques : list, optional (default=None) A list of cliques, each of which is itself a list of nodes. If not specified, the list of all cliques will be computed using :func:`find_cliques`. Returns ------- int or dict If `nodes` is a single node, returns the size of the largest maximal clique in `G` containing that node. Otherwise return a dict keyed by node to the size of the largest maximal clique containing that node. See Also -------- find_cliques find_cliques yields the maximal cliques of G. It accepts a `nodes` argument which restricts consideration to maximal cliques containing all the given `nodes`. The search for the cliques is optimized for `nodes`. """ if cliques is None: if nodes is not None: # Use ego_graph to decrease size of graph # check for single node if nodes in G: return max(len(c) for c in find_cliques(nx.ego_graph(G, nodes))) # handle multiple nodes return { n: max(len(c) for c in find_cliques(nx.ego_graph(G, n))) for n in nodes } # nodes is None--find all cliques cliques = list(find_cliques(G)) # single node requested if nodes in G: return max(len(c) for c in cliques if nodes in c) # multiple nodes requested # preprocess all nodes (faster than one at a time for even 2 nodes) size_for_n = defaultdict(int) for c in cliques: size_of_c = len(c) for n in c: if size_for_n[n] < size_of_c: size_for_n[n] = size_of_c if nodes is None: return size_for_n return {n: size_for_n[n] for n in nodes}
[docs] def number_of_cliques(G, nodes=None, cliques=None): """Returns the number of maximal cliques for each node. Returns a single or list depending on input nodes. Optional list of cliques can be input if already computed. """ if cliques is None: cliques = list(find_cliques(G)) if nodes is None: nodes = list(G.nodes()) # none, get entire graph if not isinstance(nodes, list): # check for a list v = nodes # assume it is a single value numcliq = len([1 for c in cliques if v in c]) else: numcliq = {} for v in nodes: numcliq[v] = len([1 for c in cliques if v in c]) return numcliq
class MaxWeightClique: """A class for the maximum weight clique algorithm. This class is a helper for the `max_weight_clique` function. The class should not normally be used directly. Parameters ---------- G : NetworkX graph The undirected graph for which a maximum weight clique is sought weight : string or None, optional (default='weight') The node attribute that holds the integer value used as a weight. If None, then each node has weight 1. Attributes ---------- G : NetworkX graph The undirected graph for which a maximum weight clique is sought node_weights: dict The weight of each node incumbent_nodes : list The nodes of the incumbent clique (the best clique found so far) incumbent_weight: int The weight of the incumbent clique """ def __init__(self, G, weight): self.G = G self.incumbent_nodes = [] self.incumbent_weight = 0 if weight is None: self.node_weights = {v: 1 for v in G.nodes()} else: for v in G.nodes(): if weight not in G.nodes[v]: errmsg = f"Node {v!r} does not have the requested weight field." raise KeyError(errmsg) if not isinstance(G.nodes[v][weight], int): errmsg = f"The {weight!r} field of node {v!r} is not an integer." raise ValueError(errmsg) self.node_weights = {v: G.nodes[v][weight] for v in G.nodes()} def update_incumbent_if_improved(self, C, C_weight): """Update the incumbent if the node set C has greater weight. C is assumed to be a clique. """ if C_weight > self.incumbent_weight: self.incumbent_nodes = C[:] self.incumbent_weight = C_weight def greedily_find_independent_set(self, P): """Greedily find an independent set of nodes from a set of nodes P.""" independent_set = [] P = P[:] while P: v = P[0] independent_set.append(v) P = [w for w in P if v != w and not self.G.has_edge(v, w)] return independent_set def find_branching_nodes(self, P, target): """Find a set of nodes to branch on.""" residual_wt = {v: self.node_weights[v] for v in P} total_wt = 0 P = P[:] while P: independent_set = self.greedily_find_independent_set(P) min_wt_in_class = min(residual_wt[v] for v in independent_set) total_wt += min_wt_in_class if total_wt > target: break for v in independent_set: residual_wt[v] -= min_wt_in_class P = [v for v in P if residual_wt[v] != 0] return P def expand(self, C, C_weight, P): """Look for the best clique that contains all the nodes in C and zero or more of the nodes in P, backtracking if it can be shown that no such clique has greater weight than the incumbent. """ self.update_incumbent_if_improved(C, C_weight) branching_nodes = self.find_branching_nodes(P, self.incumbent_weight - C_weight) while branching_nodes: v = branching_nodes.pop() P.remove(v) new_C = C + [v] new_C_weight = C_weight + self.node_weights[v] new_P = [w for w in P if self.G.has_edge(v, w)] self.expand(new_C, new_C_weight, new_P) def find_max_weight_clique(self): """Find a maximum weight clique.""" # Sort nodes in reverse order of degree for speed nodes = sorted(self.G.nodes(), key=lambda v: self.G.degree(v), reverse=True) nodes = [v for v in nodes if self.node_weights[v] > 0] self.expand([], 0, nodes)
[docs] @not_implemented_for("directed") @nx._dispatchable(node_attrs="weight") def max_weight_clique(G, weight="weight"): """Find a maximum weight clique in G. A *clique* in a graph is a set of nodes such that every two distinct nodes are adjacent. The *weight* of a clique is the sum of the weights of its nodes. A *maximum weight clique* of graph G is a clique C in G such that no clique in G has weight greater than the weight of C. Parameters ---------- G : NetworkX graph Undirected graph weight : string or None, optional (default='weight') The node attribute that holds the integer value used as a weight. If None, then each node has weight 1. Returns ------- clique : list the nodes of a maximum weight clique weight : int the weight of a maximum weight clique Notes ----- The implementation is recursive, and therefore it may run into recursion depth issues if G contains a clique whose number of nodes is close to the recursion depth limit. At each search node, the algorithm greedily constructs a weighted independent set cover of part of the graph in order to find a small set of nodes on which to branch. The algorithm is very similar to the algorithm of Tavares et al. [1]_, other than the fact that the NetworkX version does not use bitsets. This style of algorithm for maximum weight clique (and maximum weight independent set, which is the same problem but on the complement graph) has a decades-long history. See Algorithm B of Warren and Hicks [2]_ and the references in that paper. References ---------- .. [1] Tavares, W.A., Neto, M.B.C., Rodrigues, C.D., Michelon, P.: Um algoritmo de branch and bound para o problema da clique máxima ponderada. Proceedings of XLVII SBPO 1 (2015). .. [2] Warren, Jeffrey S, Hicks, Illya V.: Combinatorial Branch-and-Bound for the Maximum Weight Independent Set Problem. Technical Report, Texas A&M University (2016). """ mwc = MaxWeightClique(G, weight) mwc.find_max_weight_clique() return mwc.incumbent_nodes, mwc.incumbent_weight