ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Multipartite graph

Have you ever played with blocks before? Imagine you have a bunch of different colored blocks - red, blue, yellow, green, and purple. Now, imagine that you can connect these blocks to each other to make a shape. This is kind of like a puzzle!

But what if you have many different types of blocks, like circles, squares, and triangles? You might want to connect them in a different way. This is where a multipartite graph comes in!

A multipartite graph is like a big puzzle made up of different separate parts. Each part is colored with a different color (like our different types of blocks). The different parts are called "sets." We can connect different sets together, but we can't connect anything within the same set.

For example, imagine one set is colored red and has three blocks in it. Another set is colored green and has two blocks in it. We could connect the red set to the green set, but we can't connect any of the red blocks to each other or any of the green blocks to each other.

We can use multipartite graphs to solve all kinds of problems. They help us visualize complex relationships and make connections between different things. It's kind of like a puzzle, but instead of blocks, we connect different sets together!