A .NET library for creating, mutating, and analyzing graphs, built with modern C# and developed test-first.
Graph1x aims to cover the standard graph taxonomy under one coherent, strongly-typed API:
- Direction — directed and undirected graphs
- Weight — weighted and unweighted edges (weights via C# generic math, any
INumber<T>) - Cycles — cyclic graphs and DAG-enforcing types that reject cycle-forming edges
- Structure/density — adjacency-list (sparse) and adjacency-matrix (dense) storage behind the same contract
- Special structures — multigraphs (parallel edges) and a standalone hypergraph type
On top of the data structures, the library ships the classic algorithm suite: BFS/DFS, cycle detection, topological sort, connected/strongly connected components, shortest paths (Dijkstra, Bellman-Ford, Floyd-Warshall, A*), minimum spanning trees (Kruskal, Prim), and structural queries (degree, density, bipartiteness, transpose).
Graph1x 1.1 is stable. The public API follows Semantic Versioning: breaking changes only in a new major version, additions in minors, fixes in patches — and the API surface is analyzer-locked, so compatibility is enforced by the build, not just by policy.
Built milestone by milestone with TDD (tests written before the implementation); over 900 unit tests cover the edge cases, including a shared contract suite that every graph implementation must pass. CI runs the full suite on Linux and Windows against both target frameworks, and the package ships Source Link with a symbols package for debugging. The library is trim/Native-AOT compatible and strong-name signed.
| Area | Contents |
|---|---|
| Graph types | DirectedGraph, UndirectedGraph, DirectedMultigraph, UndirectedMultigraph, DirectedAcyclicGraph, DirectedAdjacencyMatrixGraph, UndirectedAdjacencyMatrixGraph, Hypergraph |
| Traversal | BFS, DFS pre/post-order (lazy, iterative) |
| Cycles | HasCycle/FindCycle, Kahn topological sort |
| Eulerian trails | HasEulerianCircuit/Path, Hierholzer FindEulerianCircuit/Path |
| Connectivity | Connected/weakly connected components, Tarjan SCC, condensation, bridges, articulation points, biconnected and 2-edge-connected components |
| Shortest paths | Dijkstra, Bellman-Ford, Floyd-Warshall, Johnson (sparse all-pairs), A*, Yen k-shortest (lazy) |
| DAG paths | Topological relaxation: shortest/longest paths, critical path |
| Spanning trees | Kruskal, Prim (forests on disconnected input) |
| Flow networks | Edmonds-Karp and Dinic maximum flow with certifying minimum cut; min-cost max-flow (successive shortest paths with potentials) |
| Matching | Hopcroft-Karp maximum bipartite matching |
| Structure | Density, degree sequence, bipartiteness, transpose, transitive closure/reduction |
| Operations | Induced subgraph, union, complement |
| Coloring | DSatur heuristic (ColorVertices), exact on bipartite graphs |
| Distance metrics | Eccentricity, diameter, radius, center/periphery, average path length |
| Centrality | Degree, closeness (Wasserman-Faust), Brandes betweenness, PageRank, eigenvector, Katz |
| Clustering | Local/average clustering coefficients, global transitivity |
| Cliques | Lazy maximal clique enumeration (Bron–Kerbosch with pivoting) |
| Construction | Fluent GraphBuilder with typed Build() |
| Views | AsReadOnly() live views, ToFrozen() immutable snapshots |
| Serialization | Graphviz DOT and Mermaid flowchart export; GraphML and node-link JSON round-trips with typed vertex/edge attributes |
| Generators | Seeded Erdős–Rényi, Barabási–Albert, Watts–Strogatz, complete, bipartite, path, cycle, star, grid |
Graph1x was written by Claude Fable under my direction. I set the scope and decided what to build; I did not author the implementations.
This matters for how you read the guarantees above. The structural ones are real and mechanically enforced: the API surface is analyzer-locked, every graph backend passes the same contract suite, and CI runs the full test suite on both target frameworks. But the tests were generated alongside the code by the same model — that demonstrates internal consistency, not independent verification. The correctness of the algorithm implementations, particularly the centrality measures and the flow algorithms, has not been validated against an outside reference.
If you are evaluating Graph1x for anything load-bearing, review the implementations you depend on. Bug reports and corrections are genuinely welcome — they are the fastest way this library gets trustworthy.
Edges are lightweight value types; weighted edges accept any numeric type via generic math:
using Graph1x.Edges;
var road = new Edge<string>("Lisbon", "Porto");
var toll = new WeightedEdge<string, decimal>("Lisbon", "Porto", 22.85m);
var (source, target, weight) = toll; // deconstructionEdge values are ordered pairs — undirected semantics (a-b == b-a) are applied by the graph that stores them, not by the edge itself.
Graphs are mutable adjacency-list structures. Add/Remove follow the .NET collection idiom (bool instead of exceptions), AddEdge auto-adds missing endpoint vertices, and RemoveVertex cascades to incident edges:
using Graph1x;
using Graph1x.Edges;
var graph = new DirectedGraph<string, Edge<string>>();
graph.AddEdge(new Edge<string>("a", "b"));
graph.AddEdge(new Edge<string>("b", "c"));
graph.ContainsEdge("a", "b"); // true
graph.ContainsEdge("b", "a"); // false — direction matters
graph.OutDegree("b"); // 1
graph.RemoveVertex("b"); // also removes a->b and b->c
// Undirected graphs treat endpoints symmetrically and accept custom comparers.
var roads = new UndirectedGraph<string, Edge<string>>(StringComparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase);
roads.AddEdge(new Edge<string>("Lisbon", "Porto"));
roads.ContainsEdge("PORTO", "lisbon"); // trueSelf-loops are allowed everywhere except in DAGs (an undirected self-loop counts 2 toward the degree; a directed one counts 1 in + 1 out).
Multigraphs accept parallel edges; DAGs reject anything that would create a cycle:
var flights = new DirectedMultigraph<string, WeightedEdge<string, decimal>>();
flights.AddEdge(new WeightedEdge<string, decimal>("LIS", "OPO", 49.90m));
flights.AddEdge(new WeightedEdge<string, decimal>("LIS", "OPO", 89.90m)); // parallel — allowed
flights.GetEdges("LIS", "OPO"); // both fares
var build = new DirectedAcyclicGraph<string, Edge<string>>();
build.AddEdge(new Edge<string>("compile", "test"));
build.AddEdge(new Edge<string>("test", "package"));
build.AddEdge(new Edge<string>("package", "compile")); // false — would close a cycleAlgorithms live in Graph1x.Algorithms as extension methods. Traversals are lazy iterators (implemented without recursion, so deep graphs cannot overflow the stack):
using Graph1x.Algorithms;
foreach (var v in graph.BreadthFirstSearch("a")) { /* ... */ }
graph.DepthFirstSearch("a"); // pre-order
graph.DepthFirstSearchPostOrder("a"); // post-order
graph.HasCycle(); // directed or undirected
graph.FindCycle(); // the cycle's vertices, or null
graph.TopologicalSort(); // Kahn's algorithm; throws GraphCycleException on cycles
graph.FindEulerianCircuit(); // every edge exactly once, or null (Hierholzer)
graph.FindEulerianPath(); // Königsberg says nullCycle detection understands multigraphs (two parallel undirected edges form a cycle) and self-loops. GraphCycleException carries the offending cycle.
Connectivity queries:
graph.ConnectedComponents(); // direction-agnostic components
graph.IsConnected(); // at most one component (empty graph: true)
directed.WeaklyConnectedComponents(); // components after forgetting direction
directed.StronglyConnectedComponents(); // Tarjan, iterative; reverse topological order
var condensation = directed.Condense(); // each SCC collapsed to one vertex
condensation.Graph.TopologicalSort(); // the condensation is always a DAG
condensation.ComponentOf("a"); // vertex -> component index
condensation.Members(0); // component index -> original verticesShortest paths default to Dijkstra via the facade; the strategies are swappable behind IShortestPathAlgorithm<,,>:
var route = graph.ShortestPath("LIS", "MAD"); // weighted edges carry the weights
var hops = graph.ShortestPath("a", "z", _ => 1); // any edge type + weight selector
route.IsReachable; // false instead of exceptions for missing routes
route.Distance; // total weight (throws if unreachable)
route.Path; // ["LIS", ..., "MAD"]
// Querying many targets from one source? One run, many lookups:
var fromLisbon = graph.ShortestPathsFrom("LIS");
fromLisbon.To("MAD"); // ShortestPathResult, no recomputation
fromLisbon.Distances; // every reachable vertex at once
// Negative weights? Bellman-Ford (throws NegativeCycleException on negative cycles).
new BellmanFordShortestPath<string, WeightedEdge<string, int>, int>(e => e.Weight)
.FindPath(graph, "a", "b");
// All pairs at once (Floyd-Warshall), or heuristic-guided search (A*).
new FloydWarshallAllShortestPaths<string, WeightedEdge<string, int>, int>(e => e.Weight)
.Compute(graph)
.Between("a", "b");
// Sparse graph? Johnson's reweighting beats O(V³): same result type, same
// negative-weight support, plus a ParallelOptions overload for per-source runs.
new JohnsonAllShortestPaths<string, WeightedEdge<string, int>, int>(e => e.Weight)
.Compute(graph, new ParallelOptions { MaxDegreeOfParallelism = 4 });
new AStarShortestPath<Cell, WeightedEdge<Cell, int>, int>(e => e.Weight, Manhattan)
.FindPath(grid, start, goal);Dijkstra and A* reject negative weights with NegativeWeightException and point you to Bellman-Ford.
Need alternatives, not just the optimum? Yen's algorithm enumerates simple paths lazily in nondecreasing weight — take as many as you need and stop paying:
graph.EnumerateShortestPaths("LIS", "MAD").Take(3); // 3 cheapest routes
graph.EnumerateShortestPaths("a", "z", e => e.Toll); // any edge type + selectorOn DAGs, a single topological pass beats both and takes negative weights in stride — plus the longest-path queries that are intractable on general graphs:
dag.DagShortestPathsFrom("compile"); // SingleSourceShortestPaths, negative weights OK
dag.DagLongestPathsFrom("compile"); // same shape, maximizing
dag.CriticalPath(); // heaviest path anywhere (scheduling/CPM)These throw GraphCycleException on cyclic input, like TopologicalSort.
Minimum spanning trees (undirected graphs; disconnected input yields a spanning forest):
var forest = network.MinimumSpanningForest(); // Kruskal by default
new PrimMinimumSpanningTree<string, WeightedEdge<string, int>, int>(e => e.Weight)
.FindMinimumSpanningForest(network); // or Prim, same interfaceMaximum flow (directed networks, non-negative capacities) returns the flow value, per-edge flows, and a minimum cut that certifies optimality:
var result = network.MaximumFlow("source", "sink"); // Edmonds-Karp by default
network.MaximumFlow("s", "t", e => e.Capacity); // or any capacity selector
new DinicMaximumFlow<string, WeightedEdge<string, int>, int>(e => e.Weight)
.FindMaximumFlow(network, "s", "t"); // Dinic for large/dense networks
result.FlowValue; // max flow == min cut capacity
result.EdgeFlows; // flow per edge (parallel edges listed individually)
result.MinCutEdges; // the bottleneck edges
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