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junpenglao opened this issue Apr 26, 2017 · 6 comments
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DOCS: explain Compound Step in sampling #2083

junpenglao opened this issue Apr 26, 2017 · 6 comments

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@junpenglao
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Currently, there is no information on the compound step method.
There are some examples here and there in the docs, which using a compound step assignment step = [step1, step2]. However, is it unclear:

  1. what happen when pymc3 assign sampler under the default condition?
  2. the order of step methods. for example, is the next sample propose at the same time or in a sequential manner.
  3. is there a way to specify the order of the step methods? Is it possible to do a NUTS within Gibbs kind of idea?
  4. some guideline on mixing different sampler, eg bob's comment in #1990.
@springcoil
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Does anyone have any resources that could help with this?

@junpenglao
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I have drafted a notebook explaining this, following a similar discussion on discourse: https://github.com/junpenglao/Planet_Sakaar_Data_Science/blob/master/PyMC3QnA/CompoundStep_Explained.ipynb
Need some help to formatted it and extend it into a proper doc.

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huangy22 commented May 4, 2018

Hi, I want to try to work on this as my first issue. Is it okay? Thanks!

@junpenglao
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Absolutely! If you have any additional question feel free to post it on discourse.

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huangy22 commented Jun 7, 2018

I wrote some explanation in the sample function (PR #3014) and please let me know if there's any improvement I could make! Thank you!

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close via #3014

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