Streaming data with ADVI (minibatch)

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I’m currently trying to implement a linear regression model that takes streaming events to train the model incrementally. I know that Stan supports ADVI and ADVI can be used with minibatches. Yet, I can’t figure out a way to estimate the regression coefficients incrementally using the ADVI mini-batch implementation in Stan.

Can someone please help me to figure this out?

Thank you!

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There is no minibatch implementat of ADVI in Stan. Alp hacked the underlying C++ for the paper, but we never made the connection to the modeling language and interfaces.

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Thank you @Bob_Carpenter.

To further clarify, is that mean that Stan does not support Bayesian Inference in streaming fashion, by any other means.

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Correct. At least not yet.

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