Hello! I’m writing to ask for advice/suggestions on creating a new operator class for operator VI in pymc3. Specifically, I’d like to use the squared L2 norm of the difference between the score function of the posterior and the variational approximation: \mathcal{L}(q,p)= \mathbb{E}_{\theta \sim …

Adding a new operator for an objective which involves gradients

ferrine March 28, 2019, 10:30am 3

Sure I can help. I will find some time soon to collaborate. BTW, do you plan opening a PR?

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