I have a model that I am sampling from as follows: with m.model: m.trace = pm.sample(cores=1, chains=1) This works fine (well, there are divergences, so not fine, but it works). But when I remove the cores=1, chains=1, I get a bad initial energy error: Multiprocess sampling (4 chains…

NUTS sampler gets "bad initial energy" only with parallel sampling

rpgoldman May 28, 2019, 8:48pm 5

This seems to be a problem with the search and my keyword guessing. Here’s the key post.

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