Hi there,
why was the PageRank version (which implements the GraphAlgorithm interface) removed in 1.3? How can I use the new PageRank implementation in 1.3.x? Why PageRank doesn’t use the graph processing models (vertex-centric, sg or gsa) anymore? Thanks! Bests, marc |
Hi Marc, PageRank and GSAPageRank were moved to the flink-gelly-examples jar in the org.apache.flink.graph.examples package. A library algorithm was added that supports both source and sink vertices. This limitation of the old algorithms was noted in the class documentation and I understand to be an effect of delta iterations. The new implementation is also significantly faster (https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/2733#issuecomment-278789830). PageRank can be run using the examples jar from the command line, for example (don’t wildcard the jar file as in the documentation until we get the javadoc jar removed from the next release). $ mv opt/flink-gelly* lib/ $ ./bin/flink run examples/gelly/flink-gelly-examples_2.11-1.3.1.jar \ --algorithm PageRank \ --input CSV --type integer --simplify directed --input_filename <filename> --input_field_delimiter $'\t' \ --output print The output can also be written to CSV in similar fashion to the input. The code to call the library PageRank from the examples driver is as with any GraphAlgorithm (https://github.com/apache/flink/blob/release-1.3/flink-libraries/flink-gelly-examples/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/graph/drivers/PageRank.java): graph.run(new PageRank<K, VV, EV>(dampingFactor, iterations, convergenceThreshold)); Please let us know of any issues or additional questions! Greg
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Hi Greg,
I do an evaluation between Gelly and GraphX (Spark). Both frameworks implement PageRank and Gelly provides a lot of variants (*thumbs up*).
During a really small initial test I get for the vertex-centric, scatter-gather and gsa version the same ranking result. Just the implementation in 1.3.X (without any graph model) computed a different result (ranking).
/* vertex centric */ My input graph is:
vertices
edges
Ranking output
Do you know why?
Best
Marc
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The current algorithm is unweighted though we should definitely look to add a weighted variant and consider PersonalizedPageRank as well. Looking at your results, PageRank scores should sum to 1.0, should be positive unless the damping factor is 1.0, and use of the convergence threshold will guarantee accurate results on large graphs. The PageRank tests compare results from the NetworkX implementation. The missing vertex 3 is trivially fixed by adding the call ".setIncludeZeroDegreeVertices(true)” to the VertexDegrees function.
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Thanks for your explanation.
The vertex-centric, sg and gsa PageRank need a Double as vertex value. A VertexDegree function generate a vertex with a LongValue as value.
Maybe I can iterate over the graph and remove all edges with a degree of zero?!
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Hi Greg,
it seems that it doesn’t matter with the vertex „3“ with no degree.
I removed these vertex in the graph and in a second test of my input file. The ranking order is still different, and I guess wrong. Furthermore is the sum of all ranks not 1. It depends on the beta-parameter. E.g. a beta of 0.15 on the sg PageRank
calculate
(2.0 , 0.38102628032106706)
(4.0 , 0.4547945998174918)
(1.0 , 0.4341925979005684)
The sg and a beta of 0.85 returns:
(2.0 , 97.53826698457634)
(4.0 , 140.49741661507886)
(1.0 , 135.265886297257)
All of these are issues of vertex-centric, sg and gsa implementation. The last one (without any graph model) works fine.
Do you have any idea what I doing wrong?
Marc
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Hi Marc, FLINK-7273 updates Gelly's PageRank to optionally include zero-degree vertices (the performance cost looks to be significant so this is disabled by default). I created FLINK-7277 to work on a weighted PageRank implementation. The greater challenge is integrating weighted graphs into the examples runner. Greg
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