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Estimating the number of communities in weighted networks (2211.14844v2)

Published 27 Nov 2022 in cs.SI and physics.data-an

Abstract: Community detection in weighted networks has been a popular topic in recent years. However, while there exist several flexible methods for estimating communities in weighted networks, these methods usually assume that the number of communities is known. It is usually unclear how to determine the exact number of communities one should use. Here, to estimate the number of communities for weighted networks generated from arbitrary distribution under the degree-corrected distribution-free model, we propose one approach that combines weighted modularity with spectral clustering. This approach allows a weighted network to have negative edge weights and it also works for signed networks. We compare the proposed method to several existing methods and show that our method is more accurate for estimating the number of communities both numerically and empirically.

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