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Pathfinder is a variational method for initializing MCMC methods, implemented at https://github.com/sethaxen/Pathfinder.jl. When it works well, it returns draws from the typical set so that the warm-up period can be skipped, which is especially useful when one wants to sample many chains in parallel. When it fails, it's still useful for initializing further warm-up.
Pathfinder also returns a multivariate normal approximation to the target distribution. For HMC, the covariance of this matrix can be used to initialize the inverse metric adaptation, so Pathfinder effectively acts as a replacement for the first 2 adaptation windows. This can be combined with the metric adaptation scheme proposed in #277 for further windows.
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Pathfinder is a variational method for initializing MCMC methods, implemented at https://github.com/sethaxen/Pathfinder.jl. When it works well, it returns draws from the typical set so that the warm-up period can be skipped, which is especially useful when one wants to sample many chains in parallel. When it fails, it's still useful for initializing further warm-up.
Pathfinder also returns a multivariate normal approximation to the target distribution. For HMC, the covariance of this matrix can be used to initialize the inverse metric adaptation, so Pathfinder effectively acts as a replacement for the first 2 adaptation windows. This can be combined with the metric adaptation scheme proposed in #277 for further windows.
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: