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stochastic calculations inside emcee

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Hi,
I have a model for which I am using emcee to sample three parameters.
I have trouble getting good acceptance ratio. I have increased the number of walkers to 2000 and still have the same problem. Funny enough, the first few samples, i.e., first 100 or so, have acceptance ratio around 25-30 % but then it drops to 0.01%. I am initializing the walkers with random values.
Is there any diagnostic or something else one can do to improve the sampling?

thanks in advance

Inti

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python
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data
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