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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion Project.toml
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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
name = "Turing"
uuid = "fce5fe82-541a-59a6-adf8-730c64b5f9a0"
version = "0.13.0"
version = "0.14.0"

[deps]
AbstractMCMC = "80f14c24-f653-4e6a-9b94-39d6b0f70001"
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12 changes: 8 additions & 4 deletions src/core/ad.jl
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Expand Up @@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ ADBackend(::Val) = error("The requested AD backend is not available. Make sure t
Find the autodifferentiation backend of the algorithm `alg`.
"""
getADbackend(spl::Sampler) = getADbackend(spl.alg)
getADbackend(spl::SampleFromPrior) = ADBackend()()

"""
gradient_logp(
Expand All @@ -77,9 +78,10 @@ function gradient_logp(
θ::AbstractVector{<:Real},
vi::VarInfo,
model::Model,
sampler::Sampler
sampler::AbstractSampler,
ctx::DynamicPPL.AbstractContext = DynamicPPL.DefaultContext()
)
return gradient_logp(getADbackend(sampler), θ, vi, model, sampler)
return gradient_logp(getADbackend(sampler), θ, vi, model, sampler, ctx)
end

"""
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vi::VarInfo,
model::Model,
sampler::AbstractSampler=SampleFromPrior(),
ctx::DynamicPPL.AbstractContext = DynamicPPL.DefaultContext()
)
# Define function to compute log joint.
logp_old = getlogp(vi)
function f(θ)
new_vi = VarInfo(vi, sampler, θ)
model(new_vi, sampler)
model(new_vi, sampler, ctx)
logp = getlogp(new_vi)
setlogp!(vi, ForwardDiff.value(logp))
return logp
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vi::VarInfo,
model::Model,
sampler::AbstractSampler = SampleFromPrior(),
ctx::DynamicPPL.AbstractContext = DynamicPPL.DefaultContext()
)
T = typeof(getlogp(vi))

# Specify objective function.
function f(θ)
new_vi = VarInfo(vi, sampler, θ)
model(new_vi, sampler)
model(new_vi, sampler, ctx)
return getlogp(new_vi)
end

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56 changes: 54 additions & 2 deletions src/modes/ModeEstimation.jl
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Expand Up @@ -147,6 +147,50 @@ function (f::OptimLogDensity)(z)
return -DynamicPPL.getlogp(varinfo)
end

function (f::OptimLogDensity)(F, G, z)
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I'm not sure if it's useful to keep this separate definition? It seems we only need f(F, G, H, z), so the implementation could just be included there directly.

spl = DynamicPPL.SampleFromPrior()


if G !== nothing
# Calculate log joint and the gradient
l, g = gradient_logp(
z,
DynamicPPL.VarInfo(f.vi, spl, z),
f.model,
DynamicPPL.SampleFromPrior(),
f.context
)

# Use the negative gradient because we are minimizing.
G[:] = -g

# If F is something, return that since we already have the
# log joint.
if F !== nothing
F = -l
return F
end
end

# No gradient necessary, just return the log joint.
if F !== nothing
F = f(z)
return F
end

return nothing
end

function (f::OptimLogDensity)(F, G, H, z)
# Throw an error if a second order method was used.
if H !== nothing
error("Second order optimization is not yet supported.")
end

# Otherwise, just do the function and gradient info.
return f(F, G, z)
end

"""
ModeResult{
V<:NamedArrays.NamedArray,
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args...;
kwargs...
)
# Throw an error if we received a second-order optimizer.
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Do we have to do that? Doesn't Optim just use ForwardDiff (or FD?) to compute the Hessian in this case? If that's the case, then we shouldn't throw an error IMO. It might not be the most efficient approach and would not adhere to the user-provided AD settings but as long as it works we could only print a warning.

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In FD yes; but (for example in the project that I am working on) it could be that users only define custom adjoints for the gradients but not the Hessian. Therefore even the user provides an AD backend, it might not be a great idea if it by default take that for Hessian function.

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You mean we shouldn't even print a warning? Would be fine with me as well.

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Oh, I think throwing an error when some Hessian-required optimizer is received is a great idea, just like what Cameron did here.

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If we want to throw an error if the Hessian is evaluated, I suggest using only_fgh!(f) and implementing f(F, G, H, x) that contains the check

if H !== nothing
    error("second order methods are not supported at the moment")
end

In general, this approach is more flexible, avoids baking in a hardcoded check for a special type of a different package in our implementation, and avoids incorrect and unexpected behaviour for second-order optimization algorithms that don't subtype this specific type (since multiple inheritance is not possible in Julia, that's not an impossible scenario per se).

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It's a bug. I think there might be an issue for it.

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I just found JuliaNLSolvers/Optim.jl#718, I guess that's the related issue.

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Yeah, I have a fix. Sorry to cossio for waiting a year and a half 😬

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I mean, I will tag a fix in an hour or so, so please don't special case with a branch.

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# if optimizer isa Optim.SecondOrderOptimizer
# throw(ArgumentError("Second order optimizers for MLE/MAP are not yet supported."))
# end

# Do some initialization.
spl = DynamicPPL.SampleFromPrior()

Expand All @@ -378,9 +427,12 @@ function _optimize(
link!(f.vi, spl)
init_vals = f.vi[spl]


# Optimize!
M = Optim.optimize(f, init_vals, optimizer, options, args...; kwargs...)
M = if optimizer isa Optim.SecondOrderOptimizer
Optim.optimize(Optim.only_fgh!(f), init_vals, optimizer, options, args...; kwargs...)
else
Optim.optimize(Optim.only_fg!(f), init_vals, optimizer, options, args...; kwargs...)
end

# Warn the user if the optimization did not converge.
if !Optim.converged(M)
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14 changes: 5 additions & 9 deletions test/modes/ModeEstimation.jl
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Expand Up @@ -13,19 +13,17 @@ include(dir*"/test/test_utils/AllUtils.jl")
@testset "ModeEstimation.jl" begin
@testset "MLE" begin
Random.seed!(222)
true_value = [0.0625031, 1.75]
true_value = [0.0625, 1.75]

m1 = optimize(gdemo_default, MLE())
m2 = optimize(gdemo_default, MLE(), NelderMead())
m3 = optimize(gdemo_default, MLE(), Newton())
m4 = optimize(gdemo_default, MLE(), true_value, Newton())
m5 = optimize(gdemo_default, MLE(), true_value)
m3 = optimize(gdemo_default, MLE(), true_value, LBFGS())
m4 = optimize(gdemo_default, MLE(), true_value)

@test all(isapprox.(m1.values.array - true_value, 0.0, atol=0.01))
@test all(isapprox.(m2.values.array - true_value, 0.0, atol=0.01))
@test all(isapprox.(m3.values.array - true_value, 0.0, atol=0.01))
@test all(isapprox.(m4.values.array - true_value, 0.0, atol=0.01))
@test all(isapprox.(m5.values.array - true_value, 0.0, atol=0.01))
end

@testset "MAP" begin
Expand All @@ -34,15 +32,13 @@ include(dir*"/test/test_utils/AllUtils.jl")

m1 = optimize(gdemo_default, MAP())
m2 = optimize(gdemo_default, MAP(), NelderMead())
m3 = optimize(gdemo_default, MAP(), Newton())
m4 = optimize(gdemo_default, MAP(), true_value, Newton())
m5 = optimize(gdemo_default, MAP(), true_value)
m3 = optimize(gdemo_default, MAP(), true_value, LBFGS())
m4 = optimize(gdemo_default, MAP(), true_value)

@test all(isapprox.(m1.values.array - true_value, 0.0, atol=0.01))
@test all(isapprox.(m2.values.array - true_value, 0.0, atol=0.01))
@test all(isapprox.(m3.values.array - true_value, 0.0, atol=0.01))
@test all(isapprox.(m4.values.array - true_value, 0.0, atol=0.01))
@test all(isapprox.(m5.values.array - true_value, 0.0, atol=0.01))
end

@testset "StatsBase integration" begin
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