v4.4.0

What's Changed

Major Changes 🛠

• Removed support for selectively tracking variables via pm.sample(trace=[...]). by @michaelosthege in #6269
• Do not rely on tag information for rv and logp conversions by @ricardoV94 in #6281. This includes:
  • Deprecated accessing any of [value_variable|observations|transform|total_size] via var.tag in favor of model.rvs_to_[values|transforms|total_sizes]
  • Deprecated joint_logp in favor of model.logp
  • Deprecated aesaraf.rvs_to_value_vars in favor of model.replace_rvs_by_values
• Using keyword seed for initial point no longer supported by @wd60622 in #6291
• Sampling of transformed variables from prior_predictive is no longer allowed by @ricardoV94 in #6309
• Require all step methods to return stats by @michaelosthege in #6313. This includes
  • Require all step methods to return stats from their step/astep method.
  • The BlockedStep.generates_stats attribute was removed.

New Features & Bugfixes 🎉

• Fix shared variable latex by @ricardoV94 in #6260
• Fix bug when replacing random variables with nested value transforms by @ricardoV94 in #6281
• Do not infer graph_model node types based on variable Op class by @ricardoV94 in #6259
• Do not propagate dims to observed component of imputed variable by @ricardoV94 in #6263
• Fix Categorical and Multinomial bugs by @ricardoV94 in #6265
• Sample stats for blackjax nuts by @TimOliverMaier in #6264
• Add warning if observed in DensityDist is dict by @symeneses in #6292
• Fix versioneer config to match version tags by @michaelosthege in #6314

Docs & Maintenance 🔧

• Split sampling.py into sampling.py and sampling_forward.py by @michaelosthege in #6257
• Improve join_nonshared_inputs documentation by @wd60622 in #6216
• Move sampling code to a submodule by @michaelosthege in #6268
• Fixed a typo in the overview notebook by @grtyvr in #6274
• Check that sampler vars correspond to value variables in the model by @ricardoV94 in #6235
• Updated pymc.DiscreteWeibull docstring by @hyosubkim in #6283
• Improve random seed processing for SMC sampling by @juanitorduz in #6298
• Remove wrong type-hints and stale docstrings from distributions by @ricardoV94 in #6280
• update theme by @OriolAbril in #6296
• Fix some typos and lints by @Armavica in #6300
• Update docstrings for sample_smc and smc.py by @rowangayleschaefer in #6114
• Fix Flaky Euler-Maruyama Tests by @wd60622 in #6287

New Contributors

• @grtyvr made their first contribution in #6274
• @hyosubkim made their first contribution in #6283

Full Changelog: v4.3.0...v4.4.0