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Normalized mutual information is a biased measure for classification and community detection

Published Online: 2025-12-11

Authors

Jerdee, Maximilian

Kirkley, Alec

Newman, Mark https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0907-1660
Funding

Funding for this research was provided by:

National Science Foundation (DMS-2005899)

National Science Foundation (DMS-2404617)
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Article History

Received: 9 January 2025

Accepted: 29 October 2025

First Online: 11 December 2025

Competing interests

: The authors declare no competing interests.

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