Am 16.08.22 um 15:42 schrieb Kevin Reuning:

Hello,

I am estimating a nested_block_model with bipartite data and am getting a strange result. There are about 4,000 nodes in the network and I am estimating a model by:

``` state_dc  = minimize_nested_blockmodel_dl(G, state_args=dict(deg_corr=True,                                             clabel=bipart.a, pclabel=bipart.a,                                             recs=[G.ep.weight],

rec_types=["discrete-poisson"]))

for i in range(1000): # this should be sufficiently large     state_dc.multiflip_mcmc_sweep(beta=np.inf, niter=10) ```

The results find 13 nested levels, but after level 5 there are only 2 nonempty blocks found in each additional level. I'm not sure if this is really a problem, or I can just ignore the levels where nothing really changes. Any advice/help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you

If you pass a bipartite pclabel, then this bi-partition gets reflected in the upper levels of the hierarchy as well. This is normal. -- Tiago de Paula Peixoto <tiago@skewed.de>