Apologise if I’ve missed something obvious in documentation . But, is there a cmdstanr equivalent to the ease of implementation for VI initialisation provided in cmdstanpy Using Variational Estimates to Initialize the NUTS-HMC Sampler — CmdStanPy 1.2.4 documentation
Yes, you can use a fitted model object as the value of the init argument. See the second to last bullet point in the doc for the init argument here:
I very much apologise for me missing this. And of course thank you for your timely response.
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No problem!