fastrp 0.1.0

A high-performance safe implementation of the Fast Random Projection (FastRP) algorithm.

FastRP-py

A high-performance, memory-efficient implementation of the Fast Random Projection (FastRP) algorithm in Rust, with safe and ergonomic Python bindings.

Note: This is an independent implementation and is not the official implementation of the paper's authors.

Features

• Fast: Core routines are implemented in Rust to maximize performance.
• Scikit-Learn API: Provides a FastRP estimator class that perfectly mimics the scikit-learn API (fit, fit_transform).
• Multiple Input Formats: Directly ingest dense arrays, adjacency lists, or SciPy sparse matrices.
• Zero-Copy CSR Evaluation: If using SciPy CSR matrices, the graph structure is passed to Rust with zero-copy overhead.

Installation

You can install fastrp directly from PyPI:

pip install fastrp

To enable optional support for SciPy sparse matrices (highly recommended for large graphs), install with the sparse extra:

pip install fastrp[sparse]

Quick Start

The easiest way to use fastrp is via its scikit-learn compatible estimator:

import numpy as np
from fastrp import FastRP

# 1. Create a dense adjacency matrix (e.g., 4 nodes)
adj_matrix = np.array([
    [0, 1, 1, 0],
    [1, 0, 1, 1],
    [1, 1, 0, 0],
    [0, 1, 0, 0]
])

# 2. Initialize the estimator
# dim: the target embedding dimension
# weights: the weights for the random projection iterations
model = FastRP(dim=128, weights=[0.0, 1.0, 1.0], seed=42)

# 3. Fit and transform
embeddings = model.fit_transform(adj_matrix)

print(f"Embeddings shape: {embeddings.shape}") # (4, 128)

Advanced Usage

Large Graphs with SciPy Sparse Matrices

For large networks, a dense matrix will consume too much memory. fastrp natively supports zero-copy evaluations of scipy.sparse.csr_matrix inputs. Make sure you installed the sparse extra dependency.

import scipy.sparse as sp
from fastrp import FastRP

# Create a large random sparse matrix
row = np.array([0, 0, 1, 2, 2, 2])
col = np.array([0, 2, 2, 0, 1, 2])
data = np.array([1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6])
sparse_matrix = sp.csr_matrix((data, (row, col)), shape=(3, 3))

# FastRP will detect the CSR format and process it efficiently
model = FastRP(dim=256, weights=[0.0, 1.0, 1.0])
embeddings = model.fit_transform(sparse_matrix)

Direct API

Alternatively, you can skip the scikit-learn wrapper and use the functional API directly:

import fastrp
import scipy.sparse as sp

# For a CSR matrix:
csr = sp.csr_matrix(...)
embeddings = fastrp.fit_csr(
    csr.indptr, 
    csr.indices, 
    csr.data, 
    num_nodes=csr.shape[0], 
    dim=128
)

# For an adjacency list:
adj_list = [[(1, 1.0), (2, 1.0)], [(0, 1.0)], [(0, 1.0)]]
embeddings = fastrp.fit_adj_list(adj_list, dim=128)

References

[1] Chen, Haochen, Syed Fahad Sultan, Yingtao Tian, Muhao Chen, and Steven Skiena. "Fast and Accurate Network Embeddings via Very Sparse Random Projection." In Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, pp. 399-408. 2019. https://doi.org/10.1145/3357384.3357879