Facebook AI Open-Sources PyTorch-BigGraph Tool for 'Extremely Large' Graphs

Facebook AI Research has announced it is open-sourcing PyTorch-BigGraph (PBG), a tool that can easily process and produce graph embeddings for extremely large graphs. PBG can also process multi-relation graph embeddings where a model is too large to fit in memory. Facebook boasts that PBG not only performs faster than commonly-used embedding softwares, but also provides higher-quality results compared with state-of-the-art benchmarks. The company says PBG will allow users to quickly produce high-quality embeddings from a large graph using either a single machine or multiple machines in parallel. Graphs are widely used in almost all types of programming for representing data.