Gradient-based ASE implementation, as proposed in "Gradient-Based Spectral Embeddings of Random Dot Product Graphs" (M. Fiori, B. Marenco, F. Larroca, P. Bermolen and G. Mateos, working draft)
IMPORTANT: current implementation is only supported for Python 3.8.
Clone repository and install dependencies using requirements file:
pip install -r requirements.txt
Install the following fork of Pymanopt in order to use the manifold of matrices with orthogonal columns:
pip install git+https://github.com/marfiori/pymanopt
Run the UN general assembly votes example:
python un_votes.py path_to_UN_data_file
where path_to_UN_data_file is your local path to the UN General Assembly Voting Data file. If it does not exist, it will be downloaded to that path.