v5.7.1

What's Changed

Bugfixes 🪲

• Fix regression #6840 by @michaelosthege in #6843

Maintenance 🔧

• Remove SeededTest class by @aerubanov in #6799

Full Changelog: v5.7.0...v5.7.1

v5.7.0

What's Changed

Major Changes 🛠

• Drop support for Python 3.8 by @ricardoV94 in #6832
• Bump PyTensor dependency by @ricardoV94 in #6830
  • PyTensor no longer allows runtime broadcasting. If you want a MutableData tensor to broadcast along an existing dimension, specify its static shape as (1,) along the relevant axis. Example: pm.MutableData("x", np.ones((1, 10)), shape=(1, None)).

New Features 🎉

• Add GP Wrapped Periodic Kernel by @jahall in #6742
• Logprob derivation for Max of continuous IID variables by @Dhruvanshu-Joshi in #6769

Bugfixes 🪲

• Fixes for the McBackend adapter by @michaelosthege in #6835

Documentation 📖

• Don't use size and simplify dims example in dimensionality notebook by @ricardoV94 in #6829

Maintenance 🔧

• GP Covariance Function Type Hints by @jahall in #6740
• Restrict domain on alpha in the CAR distribution by @daniel-saunders-phil in #6801

Full Changelog: v5.6.1...v5.7.0

v5.6.1

What's Changed

Bugfixes 🪲

• Allow creating CustomDist inside another CustomDist by @ricardoV94 in #6822

Documentation 📖

• Fix mathematical notation in conditional_logprob docstrings by @amyoshino in #6821

Maintenance 🔧

• replacing pytensor-devs for aesara-devs by @amyoshino in #6817
• Prevent unbound trace due to type hints by @thomasaarholt in #6809
• Update hyperlinks in GLM core notebook by @daniel-saunders-phil in #6824

Full Changelog: v5.6.0...v5.6.1

v5.6.0

What's Changed

Major Changes 🛠

• Rewrite logp graph before taking the gradient by @dehorsley in #6736
• Support automatic imputation for multivariate and symbolic distributions by @ricardoV94 in #6797

New Features 🎉

• Probabilty inference for arc transformations by @LukeLB in #6775
• Add icdf function for Cauchy and Logistic distributions by @amyoshino in #6747
• Add icdf functions for Lognormal, Half Cauchy and Half Normal distributions by @amyoshino in #6766
• Add icdf functions for Moyal, Gumbel, Triangular and Weibull distributions by @amyoshino in #6802
• Allow non-scalar measurable switch mixtures by @ricardoV94 in #6796

Bugfixes 🪲

• squeeze dim_0 dimensions for scalars away by @TimOliverMaier in #6764
• NotImplementedError for icdf of non-injective MeasurableTransforms by @ricardoV94 in #6793

Documentation 📖

• Logprob docs by @ricardoV94 in #6762
• Simplify Potential docstrings and examples by @ricardoV94 in #6772
• Fix broken link by @eeriksp in #6767
• speed-up doc building and fix several issues by @OriolAbril in #6781

Maintenance 🔧

• Removed **kwargs from sample_numpyro_nuts and sample_blackjax_nuts by @fonnesbeck in #6768
• Sponsor: add ODSC logo to README.rst by @reshamas in #6770
• Fix typos in PolyaGamma's docstring by @aleicazatti in #6672
• fixing links to images in the pymc_pytensor.ipynb notebook by @jaharvey8 in #6739
• Better coverage for float32 tests by @ferrine in #6780
• Allow creating SymbolicRandomVariables inside CustomDist by @ricardoV94 in #6805

New Contributors

• @jaharvey8 made their first contribution in #6739
• @eeriksp made their first contribution in #6767

Full Changelog: v5.5.0...v5.6.0

v5.5.0

What's Changed

Major Changes 🛠

• Rename basic "joint_logprob" functions to "conditional_logp" by @ricardoV94 in #6760

New Features 🎉

• Allow CustomDist with inferred logp in Mixture by @ricardoV94 in #6746

Bugfixes 🪲

• Fix bug in switch mixture logp by @ricardoV94 in #6765

Maintenance 🔧

• Version change in the docs installation command by @error9098x in #6752
• uncommented bambi lines by @GeoffNordling in #6749
• More informative error message for unused step sampler arguments by @jahall in #6738

New Contributors

• @error9098x made their first contribution in #6752
• @GeoffNordling made their first contribution in #6749
• @jahall made their first contribution in #6738

Full Changelog: v5.4.1...v5.5.0

v5.4.1

What's Changed

Bugfixes 🪲

• Fix minibatch bugs by @ricardoV94 in #6730
• Fix bug when compiling logp with mode="FAST_COMPILE" by @ricardoV94 in #6735
• Ignore named variables that are not traceable in get_vars_in_point_list by @ricardoV94 in #6741

Maintenance 🔧

• Fix small typing error in sample overload by @thomasaarholt in #6743

Full Changelog: v5.4.0...v5.4.1

v5.4.0

What's Changed

Major Changes 🛠

• Change logger names from all pymc to module name by @pdb5627 in #6712

New Features 🎉

• Add logcdf implementation for Truncated distributions by @shreyas3156 in #6690
• Improve numerical precision of discrete uniform and geometric ICDFs by @gokuld in #6671
• Derive logprob for hyperbolic and error transformations by @LukeLB in #6664
• Add logprob inference for not operations by @shreyas3156 in #6689
• Added scale parameterization to Exponential by @manulpatel in #6677
• Speedup Slice sampler by @ricardoV94 in #6711
• Add Hurdle distributions by @tomicapretto in #6688
• Implement ICDF for Laplace and Pareto distributions by @james-2001 in #6707
• Support Scans in CustomDist by @ricardoV94 in #6696

Bugfixes 🪲

• Rename _replace_rvs_in_graphs and fix bug when replacing input by @ricardoV94 in #6720

Documentation 📖

• Update gaussian processes guide by @daniel-saunders-phil in #6693
• Add redirects from old v3 notebooks by @OriolAbril in #6719

Maintenance 🔧

• Type overloading for return_inferencedata in sample by @thomasaarholt in #6709
• Remove joint_logprob function from tests.logprob.utils by @shreyas3156 in #6650

New Contributors

• @manulpatel made their first contribution in #6692
• @tomicapretto made their first contribution in #6688
• @james-2001 made their first contribution in #6707
• @pdb5627 made their first contribution in #6712

Full Changelog: v5.3.1...v5.4.0

v5.3.1

What's Changed

New Features 🎉

• Derive logprob of < and > operations by @shreyas3156 in #6662
• Derive logprob of >= and <= operations by @shreyas3156 in #6680

Bugfixes 🪲

• Fix WhiteNoise Covariance bug by @dehorsley in #6674

Documentation 📖

• Link to PyMC v5 port of DBDA book by @cluhmann in #6681

Maintenance 🔧

• CustomDist and Simulator no longer require class_name when creating a dist by @ricardoV94 in #6668
• Make metropolis elemwise updates independent of each other by @ricardoV94 in #6678
• Make logprob inference for binary ops independent of order of inputs by @shreyas3156 in #6682
• Rectify type-hints for set_data by @Dhruvanshu-Joshi in #6676

New Contributors

• @PlayingData made their first contribution in #6683
• @dehorsley made their first contribution in #6674

Full Changelog: v5.3.0...v5.3.1

v5.3.0

What's Changed

Major Changes 🛠

• Bump Pytensor dependency by @ricardoV94 in #6665
  • Latex and string representation of variables now uses long Distribution names x ~ N(0, 1) -> x ~ Normal(0, 1)

New Features 🎉

• Implement Model.debug() helper by @ricardoV94 in #6634
• Added ICDF for the exponential distribution by @gokuld in #6641
• Issue warning if RVs are present in derived probability graphs by @ricardoV94 in #6651

Bugfixes 🪲

• Fix bug in random function of HalfStudent by @Dhruvanshu-Joshi in #6658
• Fix dtype casting bug in icdf function by @ricardoV94 in #6669

Documentation 📖

• Fix docstrings formatting and add unnamed_distribution to glossary by @alporter08 in #6638
• Add Gitpod video to contributing page by @reshamas in #6646
• Add timestamps to list of possible contributions by @reshamas in #6623
• Improve docstrings in GP module by @daniel-saunders-phil in #6652
• Arrange distributions and sub-contents alphabetically by @Dhruvanshu-Joshi in #6653

Maintenance 🔧

• Update links to sponsor images by @reshamas in #6643
• Add type hints to distribution parameters by @iykat in #6635

New Contributors

• @alporter08 made their first contribution in #6638
• @iykat made their first contribution in #6635

Full Changelog: v5.2.0...v5.3.0

v5.2.0

What's Changed

Major Changes 🛠

• Rename logprob/joint_logp to logprob/basic and move logcdf and icdf functions there by @ricardoV94 in #6599

New Features 🎉

• Add HSGP Latent GP approximation by @bwengals in #6458
• Allow logcdf and icdf inference by @ricardoV94 in #6597
• Implement icdf for the uniform distribution by @michaelraczycki in #6528
• Implement icdf for the discrete uniform distribution. by @gokuld in #6617
• Infer logprob of scans with carried auxiliary states by @ricardoV94 in #6582
• Infer logprob of IfElse graphs by @ricardoV94 in #6529
• Infer logprob of elemwise transformations of multivariate variables by @ricardoV94 in #6607
• Infer logprob of SpecifyShape and CheckandRaise by @Dhruvanshu-Joshi in #6538

Documentation 📖

• Add definition of B in documentation for Beta distribution by @JoKeyser in #6604
• Fix a typo in the docstring for OrderedLogistic by @NathanielF in #6611
• Improved docstring for predictions argument in sample_posterior_predictive by @fonnesbeck in #6616

Maintenance 🔧

• Renamed internal at aliases to pt by @shreyas3156 in #6577
• Remove auto argument from pm.Deterministic docstring by @shreyas3156 in #6592
• Remove shape helper functions by @symeneses in #6556
• Give more readable error message when checking the starting values for MCMC by @Dhruvanshu-Joshi in #6632
• Improve collect_default_updates by @ricardoV94 in #6620
• Minor improvements to GitPod by @maresb in #6618

New Contributors

• @shreyas3156 made their first contribution in #6577
• @NathanielF made their first contribution in #6611
• @gokuld made their first contribution in #6617

Full Changelog: v5.1.2...v5.2.0