PyDTMC

PyDTMC is a full-featured, lightweight library for discrete-time Markov chains analysis. It provides classes and functions for creating, manipulating, simulating and visualizing markovian stochastic processes.

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Info:
PyPI:
Conda:

Requirements

The Python environment must include the following packages:

• Matplotlib
• NetworkX
• NumPy
• SciPy

The package Sphinx is required for building the package documentation. The package pytest is required for performing unit tests. For a better user experience, it's recommended to install Graphviz and pydot before using the plot_graph function.

Installation & Upgrade

PyPI:

$ pip install PyDTMC
$ pip install --upgrade PyDTMC

Conda:

$ conda install -c tommasobelluzzo pydtmc
$ conda update -c tommasobelluzzo pydtmc

Usage

The core element of the library is the MarkovChain class, which can be instantiated as follows:

>>> p = [[0.2, 0.7, 0.0, 0.1], [0.0, 0.6, 0.3, 0.1], [0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0], [0.5, 0.0, 0.5, 0.0]]
>>> mc = MarkovChain(p, ['A', 'B', 'C', 'D'])
>>> print(mc)

DISCRETE-TIME MARKOV CHAIN
 SIZE:           4
 RANK:           4
 CLASSES:        2
  > RECURRENT:   1
  > TRANSIENT:   1
 ERGODIC:        NO
  > APERIODIC:   YES
  > IRREDUCIBLE: NO
 ABSORBING:      YES
 REGULAR:        NO
 REVERSIBLE:     NO

Below a few examples of MarkovChain properties:

>>> print(mc.is_ergodic)
False

>>> print(mc.recurrent_states)
['C']

>>> print(mc.transient_states)
['A', 'B', 'D']

>>> print(mc.steady_states)
[array([0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0])]

>>> print(mc.is_absorbing)
True

>>> print(mc.fundamental_matrix)
[[1.50943396 2.64150943 0.41509434]
 [0.18867925 2.83018868 0.30188679]
 [0.75471698 1.32075472 1.20754717]]
 
>>> print(mc.kemeny_constant)
5.547169811320755

>>> print(mc.entropy_rate)
0.0

Below a few examples of MarkovChain methods:

>>> print(mc.mean_absorption_times())
[4.56603774 3.32075472 3.28301887]

>>> print(mc.absorption_probabilities())
[1.0 1.0 1.0]

>>> print(mc.expected_rewards(10, [2, -3, 8, -7]))
[-2.76071635, -12.01665113, 23.23460025, -8.45723276]

>>> print(mc.expected_transitions(2))
[[0.085, 0.2975, 0.0,    0.0425]
 [0.0,   0.345,  0.1725, 0.0575]
 [0.0,   0.0,    0.7,    0.0   ]
 [0.15,  0.0,    0.15,   0.0   ]]

>>> print(mc.first_passage_probabilities(5, 3))
[[0.5, 0.0,    0.5,    0.0   ]
 [0.0, 0.35,   0.0,    0.05  ]
 [0.0, 0.07,   0.13,   0.045 ]
 [0.0, 0.0315, 0.1065, 0.03  ]
 [0.0, 0.0098, 0.0761, 0.0186]]
 
>>> print(mc.hitting_probabilities([0, 1]))
[1.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.5]
 
>>> print(mc.walk(10))
['B', 'B', 'B', 'D', 'A', 'B', 'B', 'C', 'C', 'C']

Plotting functions can provide a visual representation of MarkovChain instances; in order to display the output of plots immediately, the interactive mode of Matplotlib must be turned on:

>>> plot_eigenvalues(mc)

>>> plot_graph(mc)

>>> plot_walk(mc, 10, 'sequence')