reticula-network
Hypergraph Interchange Format invitation
Hi! I'm Martín and I'm a developer working in the HIF project, an effort to share hypergraphs across many libraries, developed by members of HyperNetX, XGI and other established libraries. We are looking to expand the community actively reaching out to higher-order network analysis, topological deep learning, and applied category theory libraries.
I hope you consider checking our repository where we provide the specification of a standard JSON format. Reading your docs and code, I think it would be straightforward to add to_hif and from_hif methods in the IO package, either in C++ or Python. There are so far 4 implementations, each one with its tutorial. I hope this standard will be a solid foundation for researchers to collaborate.
Thanks!
Hi Martín! This sounds great. I'll try to remember to add this in the next round of development.
The main issue is that it will be highly beneficial to add it on the C++ side (to keep feature parity) but that necessitates adding a json parser as dependency. I've been trying to add as few dependencies as possible on the C++ side, but I guess I had to add a json parser sooner or later...
Hi Arash, I wanted to give you a heads-up on the availability of the Hypergraph Interchange Format paper on the arXiv. Cheers!
http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11520