Pickling trace object

[junpenglao]

@gaddamanil16

So I can simply use pm.save_trace and save in a pickle file. Or how do I do it?
I am running my code on a remote server. I am not able to understand how I can get back trace results so that i can analyse on my computer. And even if I do it, will pm.load_trace work without the context.

I suggest you to try with a smaller example first. And no you need a model context to load the trace to you need to initialize the model again locally on your machine.

@gaddamanil16

But when i try to use the saved paramters in approx and apply it back to get inference it takes a lot of time (I had to stop the process because my computer was stuck) because of large dataset size.

I find that surprising, as you are only saving 2n values (n=number of parameters).

@gaddamanil16

In the discussion you have mentioned that the model needs to be same, but when I try to use the same model and then run it, it just cant handle it.

Yes you need to have the same model (same for when you are loading a trace). When you said your machine cant handle it - is it too many nodes to fit into the memory?