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Agenda item: @andrewgelman and I wanted to talk a bit about getting approximate draws after optimization, which is currently only available in rstan but could be useful to add to Stan itself.
Some notes from today:
Guillaume Baudart and Louis Mandel made some experiments of running the autoguides of NumPyro on the PosteriorDB models using the Stan to NumPyro compiler:
Feedback welcome!
Jonah and Mitzi reviewed and merged Rok’s PR adding CmdStan’s diagnose method (comparing Stan’s gradients to finite diffs) to CmdStanR: Add diagnose method by rok-cesnovar · Pull Request #485 · stan-dev/cmdstanr · GitHub