thanks Tamas for the answer.

On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 5:29 PM, Tamas Nepusz <[email protected]> wrote:

> > what dose the input graph , shoud be undirected to make sense mean , in
> > label propagation algorithm?
> In my opinion, yes, it should be undirected because communities are not
> well-defined for directed graphs anyway. (None of the classical, informal
> definitions of a community take edge directions into account as far as I
> know).
>
> > so what is the output when you run on a directed graph?
> Labels will be propagated forward along the edges, but the convergence of
> the
> algorithm is not guaranteed; for instance, nodes without inbound edges are
> free
> to choose their labels in an arbitrary manner because no other nodes
> influence
> them.
>
> T.
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