Feasability of pm.Potential usage

Hi,

I am thinking of an iterative process in which a model with constraints is set up. The input values for the constraints are calculated in a separate function (a simulation). Accordingly, this function would have to be called after each sample during sampling. Is such an implementation possible in PyMC?

Arbitrarily complex python code can be wrapped into pytensor Ops for inclusion in PyMC models, see here for an example focusing on likelihoods, or perhaps here for an example that wraps a scipy optimization routine.

Depending on the nature of the simulator, you might even be able to express it in pure pytensor, which would allow you to differentiate through the simulations (and compile it to numba/JAX for accelerated sampling). Some comments (and maybe a similar problem?) here.

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