Hi everyone,
My name is Emanuele, I am an applied math and data science master’s student and in the last few weeks I tried contributing to pymc with a couple of PRs. I am very interested in participating in GSoC 2026 with you on the Spatial Modelling project.
The two pull requests are #8099 and #8171. I focused on resolving explicit TODOs by expanding the numpydoc strings and mathematical documentation for the RandomWalk class and the Metropolis proposal distributions.
Additionally, these weeks I have been thinking about the scalability and implementation of spatial models in PyMC. I have put together a short Notebook as a proof of concept of implementation of the suggested paper about Nearest Neighbor GPs. How can I share with you? In that notebook I’m not using pytensor but it’s just a python code using numpy . You suggest to try to propose also a pytensor implementation?
I look forward to your feedback!
Emanuele