https://github.com/mlcolab/pathfinder.jl

Preheat your MCMC
https://github.com/mlcolab/pathfinder.jl

bayesian-inference probabilistic-programming variational-inference

Last synced: 4 months ago
JSON representation

Preheat your MCMC

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/mlcolab/pathfinder.jl
• Owner: mlcolab
• License: mit
• Created: 2021-10-16T11:41:58.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2025-10-21T00:19:26.000Z (4 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-10-21T11:52:50.157Z (4 months ago)
• Topics: bayesian-inference, probabilistic-programming, variational-inference
• Language: Julia
• Homepage: https://mlcolab.github.io/Pathfinder.jl/
• Size: 23.1 MB
• Stars: 79
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 9
• Open Issues: 24
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

Awesome Lists containing this project

README

          
# Pathfinder.jl: Parallel quasi-Newton variational inference

[![Stable](https://img.shields.io/badge/docs-stable-blue.svg)](https://mlcolab.github.io/Pathfinder.jl/stable)

[![Dev](https://img.shields.io/badge/docs-dev-blue.svg)](https://mlcolab.github.io/Pathfinder.jl/dev)

[![Build Status](https://github.com/mlcolab/Pathfinder.jl/workflows/CI/badge.svg)](https://github.com/mlcolab/Pathfinder.jl/actions)

[![Coverage](https://codecov.io/gh/mlcolab/Pathfinder.jl/branch/main/graph/badge.svg)](https://codecov.io/gh/mlcolab/Pathfinder.jl)

[![Code Style: Blue](https://img.shields.io/badge/code%20style-blue-4495d1.svg)](https://github.com/invenia/BlueStyle)

[![ColPrac: Contributor's Guide on Collaborative Practices for Community Packages](https://img.shields.io/badge/ColPrac-Contributor's%20Guide-blueviolet)](https://github.com/SciML/ColPrac)

[![DOI](https://zenodo.org/badge/417810442.svg)](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5914975)

An implementation of Pathfinder, [^Zhang2021] a variational method for initializing Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods.

[^Zhang2021]: Lu Zhang, Bob Carpenter, Andrew Gelman, Aki Vehtari (2021).

              Pathfinder: Parallel quasi-Newton variational inference.

              arXiv: [2108.03782](https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.03782) [stat.ML].

              [Code](https://github.com/LuZhangstat/Pathfinder)