Hey! I was wondering if there is a way in the current PyMC version to customize the jitter used in the “jitter+[xyz]” initialization. By default it is a uniform sample from [-1,1], but could I make it e.g. choose from [-0.1,0.1]? Thanks for your insights! Cheers!

@TimOliverMaier you can pass your manually jittered initial point to sample. I think that would be the easiest? The kwarg is initvals

Change distribution of jitter

cluhmann July 11, 2023, 1:28pm 10

If I remember correctly, NUTS can ignore/overwrite this argument, correct? Though I have never been quite sure when it does/does not do so.

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