def METHOD_NAME(AggOp, B, tol=1e-10):
    """Fit near-nullspace candidates to form the tentative prolongator.
    Parameters
    ----------
    AggOp : csr_matrix
        Describes the sparsity pattern of the tentative prolongator.
        Has dimension (#blocks, #aggregates)
    B : array
        The near-nullspace candidates stored in column-wise fashion.
        Has dimension (#blocks * blocksize, #candidates)
    tol : scalar
        Threshold for eliminating local basis functions.
        If after orthogonalization a local basis function Q[:, j] is small,
        i.e. ||Q[:, j]|| < tol, then Q[:, j] is set to zero.
    Returns
    -------
    (Q, R) : (bsr_matrix, array)
        The tentative prolongator Q is a sparse block matrix with dimensions
        (#blocks * blocksize, #aggregates * #candidates) formed by dense blocks
        of size (blocksize, #candidates).  The coarse level candidates are
        stored in R which has dimensions (#aggregates * #candidates,
        #candidates).
    See Also
    --------
    amg_core.fit_candidates
    Notes
    -----
        Assuming that each row of AggOp contains exactly one non-zero entry,
        i.e. all unknowns belong to an aggregate, then Q and R satisfy the
        relationship B = Q*R.  In other words, the near-nullspace candidates
        are represented exactly by the tentative prolongator.
        If AggOp contains rows with no non-zero entries, then the range of the
        tentative prolongator will not include those degrees of freedom. This
        situation is illustrated in the examples below.
    References
    ----------
    .. [1] Vanek, P. and Mandel, J. and Brezina, M.,
       "Algebraic Multigrid by Smoothed Aggregation for
       Second and Fourth Order Elliptic Problems",
       Computing, vol. 56, no. 3, pp. 179--196, 1996.
       http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/vanek96algebraic.html
    Examples
    --------
    >>> from scipy.sparse import csr_matrix
    >>> from pyamg.aggregation.tentative import fit_candidates
    >>> # four nodes divided into two aggregates
    ... AggOp = csr_matrix( [[1, 0],
    ...                      [1, 0],
    ...                      [0, 1],
    ...                      [0, 1]] )
    >>> # B contains one candidate, the constant vector
    ... B = [[1],
    ...      [1],
    ...      [1],
    ...      [1]]
    >>> Q, R = fit_candidates(AggOp, B)
    >>> Q.toarray()
    array([[0.70710678, 0.        ],
           [0.70710678, 0.        ],
           [0.        , 0.70710678],
           [0.        , 0.70710678]])
    >>> R
    array([[1.41421356],
           [1.41421356]])
    >>> # Two candidates, the constant vector and a linear function
    ... B = [[1, 0],
    ...      [1, 1],
    ...      [1, 2],
    ...      [1, 3]]
    >>> Q, R = fit_candidates(AggOp, B)
    >>> Q.toarray()
    array([[ 0.70710678, -0.70710678,  0.        ,  0.        ],
           [ 0.70710678,  0.70710678,  0.        ,  0.        ],
           [ 0.        ,  0.        ,  0.70710678, -0.70710678],
           [ 0.        ,  0.        ,  0.70710678,  0.70710678]])
    >>> R
    array([[1.41421356, 0.70710678],
           [0.        , 0.70710678],
           [1.41421356, 3.53553391],
           [0.        , 0.70710678]])
    >>> # aggregation excludes the third node
    ... AggOp = csr_matrix( [[1, 0],
    ...                      [1, 0],
    ...                      [0, 0],
    ...                      [0, 1]] )
    >>> B = [[1],
    ...      [1],
    ...      [1],
    ...      [1]]
    >>> Q, R = fit_candidates(AggOp, B)
    >>> Q.toarray()
    array([[0.70710678, 0.        ],
           [0.70710678, 0.        ],
           [0.        , 0.        ],
           [0.        , 1.        ]])
    >>> R
    array([[1.41421356],
           [1.        ]])
    """
    if not isspmatrix_csr(AggOp):
        raise TypeError('expected csr_matrix for argument AggOp')
    B = np.asarray(B)
    if B.dtype not in ['float32', 'float64', 'complex64', 'complex128']:
        B = np.asarray(B, dtype='float64')
    if len(B.shape) != 2:
        raise ValueError('expected 2d array for argument B')
    if B.shape[0] % AggOp.shape[0] != 0:
        raise ValueError(f'Dimensions of AggOp {AggOp.shape} and B {B.shape} '
                         'are incompatible')
    N_fine, N_coarse = AggOp.shape
    K1 = int(B.shape[0] / N_fine)  # dof per supernode (e.g. 3 for 3d vectors)
    K2 = B.shape[1]                # candidates
    # the first two dimensions of R and Qx are collapsed later
    R = np.empty((N_coarse, K2, K2), dtype=B.dtype)    # coarse candidates
    Qx = np.empty((AggOp.nnz, K1, K2), dtype=B.dtype)  # BSR data array
    AggOp_csc = AggOp.tocsc()
    fn = amg_core.METHOD_NAME
    fn(N_fine, N_coarse, K1, K2,
       AggOp_csc.indptr, AggOp_csc.indices, Qx.ravel(),
       B.ravel(), R.ravel(), tol)
    Q = bsr_matrix((Qx.swapaxes(1, 2).copy(), AggOp_csc.indices,
                    AggOp_csc.indptr), shape=(K2*N_coarse, K1*N_fine))
    Q = Q.T.tobsr()
    R = R.reshape(-1, K2)
    return Q, R