biadjacency_matrix

biadjacency_matrix(G, row_order, column_order=None, weight='weight', dtype=None)

Return the biadjacency matrix of the bipartite graph G.

Let be a bipartite graph with node sets and . The biadjacency matrix [1] is the x matrix in which if, and only if, . If the parameter is not and matches the name of an edge attribute, its value is used instead of 1.

Parameters :

G : graph

A NetworkX graph

row_order : list of nodes

The rows of the matrix are ordered according to the list of nodes.

column_order : list, optional

The columns of the matrix are ordered according to the list of nodes. If column_order is None, then the ordering of columns is arbitrary.

weight : string or None, optional (default=’weight’)

The edge data key used to provide each value in the matrix. If None, then each edge has weight 1.

dtype : NumPy data type, optional

A valid single NumPy data type used to initialize the array. This must be a simple type such as int or numpy.float64 and not a compound data type (see to_numpy_recarray) If None, then the NumPy default is used.

Returns :

B : numpy matrix

Biadjacency matrix representation of the bipartite graph G.

See also

to_numpy_matrix, adjacency_matrix

Notes

No attempt is made to check that the input graph is bipartite.

For directed bipartite graphs only successors are considered as neighbors. To obtain an adjacency matrix with ones (or weight values) for both predecessors and successors you have to generate two biadjacency matrices where the rows of one of them are the columns of the other, and then add one to the transpose of the other.

References

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjacency_matrix#Adjacency_matrix_of_a_bipartite_graph