scipy.sparse.csgraph.

structural_rank#

scipy.sparse.csgraph.structural_rank(graph)#

Compute the structural rank of a graph (matrix) with a given sparsity pattern.

The structural rank of a matrix is the number of entries in the maximum transversal of the corresponding bipartite graph, and is an upper bound on the numerical rank of the matrix. A graph has full structural rank if it is possible to permute the elements to make the diagonal zero-free.

Added in version 0.19.0.

Parameters:
graphsparse array or matrix

Input sparse array.

Returns:
rankint

The structural rank of the sparse graph.

References

[1]

I. S. Duff, “Computing the Structural Index”, SIAM J. Alg. Disc. Meth., Vol. 7, 594 (1986).

Examples

>>> from scipy.sparse import csr_array
>>> from scipy.sparse.csgraph import structural_rank
>>> graph = [
... [0, 1, 2, 0],
... [1, 0, 0, 1],
... [2, 0, 0, 3],
... [0, 1, 3, 0]
... ]
>>> graph = csr_array(graph)
>>> print(graph)
<Compressed Sparse Row sparse array of dtype 'int64'
    with 8 stored elements and shape (4, 4)>
    Coords  Values
    (0, 1)  1
    (0, 2)  2
    (1, 0)  1
    (1, 3)  1
    (2, 0)  2
    (2, 3)  3
    (3, 1)  1
    (3, 2)  3
>>> structural_rank(graph)
4