Miscellaneous MCMC samplers written in Aesara
Project description
AeMCMC is a Python library that automates the construction of samplers for Aesara graphs that represent statistical models.
Features
This project is currently in an alpha state, but the basic features/objectives are currently as follows:
Provide utilities that simplify the process of constructing Aesara graphs/functions for posterior and posterior predictive sampling
Host a wide array of “exact” posterior sampling steps (e.g. Gibbs steps, scale-mixture/decomposition-based conditional samplers, etc.)
Build a framework for identifying and composing said sampler steps and enumerating the possible samplers for an arbitrary model
Overall, we would like this project to serve as a hub for community-sourced specialized samplers and facilitate their general use.
Getting started
Using AeMCMC, one can construct sampling steps from a graph containing Aesara RandomVariables. AeMCMC analyzes the model graph and possibly rewrites it to find the most suitable sampler.
AeMCMC can recognize closed-form posteriors; for instance the following Beta-Binomial model amounts to sampling from a Beta distribution:
import aesara
import aemcmc
import aesara.tensor as at
srng = at.random.RandomStream(0)
p_rv = srng.beta(1., 1., name="p")
Y_rv = srng.binomial(10, p_rv, name="Y")
y_vv = Y_rv.clone()
y_vv.name = "y"
sampler, initial_values = aemcmc.construct_sampler({Y_rv: y_vv}, srng)
p_posterior_step = sampler.sample_steps[p_rv]
aesara.dprint(p_posterior_step)
# beta_rv{0, (0, 0), floatX, False}.1 [id A]
# |RandomGeneratorSharedVariable(<Generator(PCG64) at 0x7F77B2831200>) [id B]
# |TensorConstant{[]} [id C]
# |TensorConstant{11} [id D]
# |Elemwise{add,no_inplace} [id E]
# | |TensorConstant{1.0} [id F]
# | |y [id G]
# |Elemwise{sub,no_inplace} [id H]
# |Elemwise{add,no_inplace} [id I]
# | |TensorConstant{1.0} [id F]
# | |TensorConstant{10} [id J]
# |y [id G]
sample_fn = aesara.function([y_vv], p_posterior_step)AeMCMC also contains a database of Gibbs samplers that can be used to sample some models more efficiently than a general-purpose sampler like NUTS would:
import aemcmc
import aesara
import aesara.tensor as at
srng = at.random.RandomStream(0)
X = at.matrix("X")
# Horseshoe prior for `beta_rv`
tau_rv = srng.halfcauchy(0, 1, name="tau")
lmbda_rv = srng.halfcauchy(0, 1, size=X.shape[1], name="lambda")
beta_rv = srng.normal(0, lmbda_rv * tau_rv, size=X.shape[1], name="beta")
a = at.scalar("a")
b = at.scalar("b")
h_rv = srng.gamma(a, b, name="h")
# Negative-binomial regression
eta = X @ beta_rv
p = at.sigmoid(-eta)
Y_rv = srng.nbinom(h_rv, p, name="Y")
y_vv = Y_rv.clone()
y_vv.name = "y"
sampler, initial_values = aemcmc.construct_sampler({Y_rv: y_vv}, srng)
# `sampler.sample_steps` contains the sample step for each random variable
print(sampler.sample_steps[h_rv])
# h_posterior
# `sampler.stages` contains the sampling kernels sorted by scan order
print(sampler.stages)
# {HorseshoeGibbsKernel: [tau, lambda], NBRegressionGibbsKernel: [beta], DispersionGibbsKernel: [h]}
# Build a function that returns new samples
to_sample_rvs = [tau_rv, lmbda_rv, beta_rv, h_rv]
inputs = [a, b, X, y_vv] + [initial_values[rv] for rv in to_sample_rvs]
outputs = [sampler.sample_steps[rv] for rv in to_sample_rvs]
sample_fn = aesara.function(inputs, outputs, updates=sampler.updates)In case no specialized sampler is found, AeMCMC assigns the NUTS sampler to the remaining variables. AeMCMC reparametrizes the model automatically to improve sampling if needed:
import aemcmc
import aesara
import aesara.tensor as at
srng = at.random.RandomStream(0)
mu_rv = srng.normal(0, 1, name="mu")
sigma_rv = srng.halfnormal(0.0, 1.0, name="sigma")
Y_rv = srng.normal(mu_rv, sigma_rv, name="Y")
y_vv = Y_rv.clone()
sampler, initial_values = aemcmc.construct_sampler({Y_rv: y_vv}, srng)
print(sampler.sample_steps.keys())
# dict_keys([sigma, mu])
print(sampler.stages)
# {NUTSKernel: [sigma, mu]}
print(sampler.parameters)
# {NUTSKernel: (step_size, inverse_mass_matrix)}
# Build a function that returns new samples
step_size, inverse_mass_matrix = list(sampler.parameters.values())[0]
inputs = [
initial_values[mu_rv],
initial_values[sigma_rv],
y_vv,
step_size,
inverse_mass_matrix
]
outputs = [sampler.sample_steps[mu_rv], sampler.sample_steps[sigma_rv]]
sample_fn = aesara.function(inputs, outputs, updates=sampler.updates)Installation
The latest release of AeMCMC can be installed from PyPI using pip:
pip install aemcmc
Or via conda-forge:
conda install -c conda-forge aemcmc
The current development branch of AeMCMC can be installed from GitHub, also using pip:
pip install git+https://github.com/aesara-devs/aemcmc
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