Re: [igraph] Weighted edges and leading.eigenvector.community

[Gábor Csárdi]

On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Andrei Boutyline
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Is there a way of getting leading.eigenvector.community to use edge weights
> when determining community structure?  It looks like there was some
> discussion of generalizing this algorithm to weighted graphs a few years ago
> on this list
> (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/igraph-help/2009-02/msg00009.html), but I
> can't tell if this functionality was ever added.

No, it was never added, AFAIK.

> If leading.eigenvector.community cannot make use of edge weights, is there
> by chance another weighted community detection method in igraph that
> produces fairly similar results?

It depends what you mean by "similar". There are several other methods
that can make use of the weights, e.g. the spin-glass method and the
fast greedy method.

Best,
Gabor

> Thanks!
> Andrei
>
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> Andrei Boutyline
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> PhD Student, Sociology
> www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~andrei
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