PHYMES: Parallel HYpergraph MEssaging Streams
Introduction
🤔 What is PHYMES?
PHYMES (Parallel HYpergraph MEssaging Streams) is a subject-based message passing algorithm based on directed hypergraphs which provide the expressivity needed to model the heterogeneity and complexity of the real world. More details in the guide.
🤔 What can PHYMES do?
PHYMES can be used to build scalable Agentic AI workflows, (hyper)-graph algorithms, and world simulators. Examples for building a chat bot, a tool calling agent, and document RAG agent are provided using embedded token/tensor services or local/remote token/tensor services using OpenAI compatible APIs.
🤔 Why PHYMES?
🔐 written 100% in Rust for performance, safety, and security.
🌎 deployable on any platform (Linux, MacOs, Win, Android, and iOS) and in the browser (WebAssembly).
💪 scalable to massive data sets using columnar in memory format, parallel and stream native processing, and GPU acceleration.
🧩 interoperable with existing stacks by interfacing with cross-platform Arrow and WASM/WASI.
🔎 instrumented with tracing and customizable metrics to debug (hyper-)graph workflows faster.
🤔 Who and what inspired PHYMES?
PHYMES takes inspiration from real world networks including biological networks. The implementation of PHYMES takes inspiration from DataFusion, Pregel, and PyG.
🙏 PHYMES would not be possible if it were not for the amazing open-sources projects that it is built on top of including Arrow and Candle with full-stack support from Tokio, Dioxus, and [Wasmtime].
Repository
The phymes-core, phymes-agents, phymes-server, phymes-app crates form a full-stack application that can run Agentic AI workflows, (Hyper-)Graph algorithms, and/or Simulate complex real world networks at scale using a web, desktop, or mobile interface.
| Crate | Description | Latest API Docs | README |
|---|---|---|---|
phymes-core | Core hypergraph messaging functionality | docs.rs | README |
phymes-agents | Support for AI agents and GPU accelerated data analytics | docs.rs | README |
phymes-server | Server that runs the Agentic AI hypergraph messaging services | docs.rs | README |
phymes-app | Frontend UI for dynamically interacting with the Agentic AI hypergraph messaging services | docs.rs | README |
This book will introduce the core concepts behind phymes, tutorials for using the underlying libraries, and tutorials for building and running the full-stack application.