On 02.10.2017 16:15, P-M wrote:
Hi Tiago,
I had a quick question about the creation of nested block states in your cookbook examples. In a number of cases you manually augment the number of hierarchy levels to 10 (for example here <https://graph-tool.skewed.de/static/doc/demos/inference/inference.html#id14> ). Firstly, what is the consequence of not doing so? Secondly, is there a special significance to using 10 or is this simply a value you have chosen for convenience/what is the consequence of varying this value?
In principle, the depth should be unbounded, but in practice we need some upper limit. The value should be chosen so that it accommodates the posterior distribution, i.e. the number of groups at the top is one most the vast majority of the time. -- Tiago de Paula Peixoto <tiago@skewed.de>