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Signed-off-by: Ryan Russell <[email protected]>

Author: ryanrussell

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ example invocation (presumed to run from the root of the TFP repo:
 
 To run the unit tests, you'll need several packages installed (again, we
 strongly recommend you work in a virtualenv). We include a script to do this for
-you, which also does some sanity checks on the environtment:
+you, which also does some sanity checks on the environment:
 
 ```shell
 ./testing/install_test_dependencies.sh

discussion/technical_note_on_unrolled_nuts.md

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ two reasons:
 
 To accomodate these concerns our implementation makes the following
 novel observations:
-  - We *offline enumerate* the recursion possibilties and note all read/write
+  - We *offline enumerate* the recursion possibilities and note all read/write
     operations.
   - We pre-allocate requisite memory (for what would otherwise be the recursion
     stack).
@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ step 1(0): x0        ==> U([x0], [1]) ==> x1 --> MH([x',x1], 1/1) --> x''
 ## Performance Optimization
 
 Using a memory slot of the size 2^max_tree_depth like above is quite
-convenient for both sampling and u turn check, as we have the whole history avaiable
+convenient for both sampling and u turn check, as we have the whole history available
 and can easily index to it. In practice, while it works well for small
 problem, users could quickly ran into memory problem with large batch size (i.e.,
 number of chains), large latent size (i.e., dimension of the free parameters),

discussion/turnkey_inference_candidate/README.md

@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ This directory contains proposals and design documents for turnkey inference.
 
 Goal: user specifies how many MCMC samples (or effective samples) they want, and
 the sampling method takes care of the rest. This includes the definition of
-`target_log_prob_fn`, inital states, and choosing the optimal
-(paramterization of) the `TransitionKernel`.
+`target_log_prob_fn`, initial states, and choosing the optimal
+(parameterization of) the `TransitionKernel`.
 
 ### An expanding window tuning for HMC/NUTS
 
@@ -24,14 +24,14 @@ posterior.
 Currently, the TFP NUTS implementation has a speed bottleneck of waiting for the
 slowest chain/batch (due to the SIMD nature), and it could seriously hinder
 performance, especially when the (initial) step size is poorly chosen. Thus,
-our strategy here is to run very few chains in the inital warm up (1 or 2).
+our strategy here is to run very few chains in the initial warm up (1 or 2).
 Moreover, by analogy to Stan's expanding memoryless windows (stage II of Stan's
-automatic parameter tuning), we implmented an expanding batch, fixed step count
+automatic parameter tuning), we implemented an expanding batch, fixed step count
 method.
 
 It is worth noting that, in TFP HMC step sizes are defined per dimension of the
 target_log_prob_fn. To separate the tuning of the step size (a scalar) and the
-mass matrix (a vector for diagnoal mass matrix), we apply an inner transform
+mass matrix (a vector for diagonal mass matrix), we apply an inner transform
 transition kernel (recall that the covariance matrix Σ acts as a Euclidean
 metric to rotate and scale the target_log_prob_fn) using a shift and scale
 bijector.

discussion/turnkey_inference_candidate/window_tune_nuts_sampling.py

@@ -365,13 +365,13 @@ def window_tune_nuts_sampling(target_log_prob,
       (possibly unnormalized) log-density under the target distribution.
     prior_samples: Nested structure of `Tensor`s, each of shape `[batches,
       latent_part_event_shape]` and should be sample from the prior. They are
-      used to generate an inital chain position if `init_state` is not supplied.
+      used to generate an initial chain position if `init_state` is not supplied.
     constraining_bijectors: `tfp.distributions.Bijector` or list of
       `tfp.distributions.Bijector`s. These bijectors use `forward` to map the
       state on the real space to the constrained state expected by
       `target_log_prob`.
     init_state: (Optional) `Tensor` or Python `list` of `Tensor`s representing
-      the inital state(s) of the Markov chain(s).
+      the initial state(s) of the Markov chain(s).
     num_samples: Integer number of the Markov chain draws after tuning.
     nchains: Integer number of the Markov chains after tuning.
     init_nchains: Integer number of the Markov chains in the first phase of
@@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ def window_tune_nuts_sampling(target_log_prob,
       probability for step size adaptation.
     max_tree_depth: Maximum depth of the tree implicitly built by NUTS. See
       `tfp.mcmc.NoUTurnSampler` for more details
-    use_scaled_init: Boolean. If `True`, generate inital state within [-1, 1]
+    use_scaled_init: Boolean. If `True`, generate initial state within [-1, 1]
       scaled by prior sample standard deviation in the unconstrained real space.
       This kwarg is ignored if `init_state` is not None
     tuning_window_schedule: List-like sequence of integers that specify the

spinoffs/inference_gym/README.md

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ Check out the [tutorial].
 
 ```bash
 pip install tfp-nightly inference_gym
-# Install at least one the folowing
+# Install at least one the following
 pip install tf-nightly  # For the TensorFlow backend.
 pip install jax jaxlib  # For the JAX backend.
 # Install to support external datasets

spinoffs/inference_gym/model_contract.md

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ others for future refinement.
 The primary use case of a model is to be able to run an inference algorithm on
 it. The secondary goal is to be able to verify the accuracy of the algorithm.
 There are other finer points of usability which also matter, but the overarching
-princple of the contract for models is that it's better to have a model usable
+principle of the contract for models is that it's better to have a model usable
 for its primary use case without all the nice-to-haves, rather than not have
 the model available at all.
 
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ argument for inclusion of the model.
    example, regression models should support computing held-out negative
    log-likelihood. Rationale: This is similar to having a standard
    parameterization. In this case, there are certain transformations which are
-   natural to look at when analyizing a model.
+   natural to look at when analyzing a model.
 
 4. If the model has analytic ground truth values, they should be filled in.
    Rationale: Ground truth values enable one way of measuring the bias of an

tensorflow_probability/examples/jupyter_notebooks/Undocumented_Infection_and_the_Dissemination_of_SARS-CoV2.ipynb

@@ -7623,7 +7623,7 @@
     "  exposed[..., WUHAN_IDX] = wuhan_exposed\n",
     "  undocumented_infectious[..., WUHAN_IDX] = wuhan_undocumented_infectious\n",
     "\n",
-    "  # Following Li et al, we do not remove the inital exposed and infectious\n",
+    "  # Following Li et al, we do not remove the initial exposed and infectious\n",
     "  # persons from the susceptible population.\n",
     "  return SEIRComponents(\n",
     "      susceptible=tf.constant(susceptible),\n",

tensorflow_probability/python/experimental/distributions/marginal_fns.py

@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ def retrying_cholesky(
 
   Args:
     matrix: A batch of symmetric square matrices, with shape `[..., n, n]`.
-    jitter: Initial jitter to add to the diagnoal.  Default: 1e-6, unless
+    jitter: Initial jitter to add to the diagonal.  Default: 1e-6, unless
       `matrix.dtype` is float64, in which case the default is 1e-10.
     max_iters: Maximum number of times to retry the Cholesky decomposition
       with larger diagonal jitter.  Default: 5.

tensorflow_probability/python/experimental/mcmc/preconditioned_nuts.py

@@ -731,7 +731,7 @@ def _build_sub_tree(self,
                       name=None):
     with tf.name_scope('build_sub_tree'):
       batch_shape = ps.shape(current_step_meta_info.init_energy)
-      # We never want to select the inital state
+      # We never want to select the initial state
       if MULTINOMIAL_SAMPLE:
         init_weight = tf.fill(
             batch_shape,

tensorflow_probability/python/mcmc/internal/slice_sampler_utils.py

@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ def _left_doubling_increments(batch_shape, max_doublings, step_size, seed=None,
     widths = width_multipliers * step_size
 
     # Take the cumulative sum of the left side increments in slice width to give
-    # the resulting distance from the inital lower bound.
+    # the resulting distance from the initial lower bound.
     left_increments = tf.cumsum(widths * expand_left, exclusive=True, axis=0)
     return left_increments, widths
 

tensorflow_probability/python/mcmc/nuts.py

@@ -722,7 +722,7 @@ def _build_sub_tree(self,
                       name=None):
     with tf.name_scope('build_sub_tree'):
       batch_shape = ps.shape(current_step_meta_info.init_energy)
-      # We never want to select the inital state
+      # We never want to select the initial state
       if MULTINOMIAL_SAMPLE:
         init_weight = tf.fill(
             batch_shape,