acerbilab / pyvbmc

PyVBMC: Variational Bayesian Monte Carlo algorithm for posterior and model inference in Python
https://acerbilab.github.io/pyvbmc/
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Some options appear to not have any effect #139

Closed matt-graham closed 1 year ago

matt-graham commented 1 year ago

Raising issue as part of JOSS review https://github.com/openjournals/joss-reviews/issues/5428

Some of the options documented at https://acerbilab.github.io/pyvbmc/api/options/vbmc_options.html do not appear to have any corresponding active code paths which use them. From some limited scanning, those that I've come across which this appears to apply to are:

Bobby-Huggins commented 1 year ago

Hi @matt-graham, thanks for pointing these out. As you've probably guessed, these options are from the MATLAB implementation but are unused in this implementation, at least for the time being. To avoid confusion we removed them just now in pull #140.