1. Graph Developer's Guide for Property Graph
  2. Graph Server (PGX) Advanced User Guide
  3. PGX Programming Guides
  4. Graph Mutation and Subgraphs
  5. Creating a Sparsified Subgraph

14.5.8 Creating a Sparsified Subgraph

The graph server (PGX) supports creating a sparsified subgraph of a graph:

PgxGraph sparsify(double e)
PgxGraph sparsify(double e, String newGraphName)
PgxGraph sparsify(Collection<VertexProperty<?, ?>> vertexProps, Collection<EdgeProperty<?>> edgeProps, double e, String newGraphName)
sparsify(self, sparsification, vertex_properties=True, edge_properties=True, name=None)

The double argument e is the sparsification coefficient with a value between 0.0 and 1.0.

The user again has the option to specify the name for the newly created graph (newGraphName) as well as the vertex and edge properties to be copied into the newly created graph instance (vertexProps and edgeProps).

The returned PgxGraph object represents a sparsified subgraph which has fewer edges than the original graph.

Parent topic: Graph Mutation and Subgraphs