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Not exploring full prior space

Open sumitaghosh opened this issue 9 months ago • 2 comments

I have a likelihood that has a linear relationship with 39 parameters and involves creating an 89x40x3 array then summing its elements together. Back when I only had the 89x40 array, the best-fit worked fine. Now, it's converging on a wrong value. There is a certain combination of parameters (within the prior space and not at the edge) that gives me a likelihood of -38565.34122985974, but PyMultiNest never seems to find any data points that give a likelihood of above -40k. I have tried pymultinest.solve with n_live_points=2000 and sampling_efficiency=1.0 but that still leads to a weird behavior of never getting a higher likelihood and of "Parameter 1 of mode 1 is converging towards the edge of the prior." What else can I try? I can't give a minimum working example because it only seems to break like this with the entire thing, so is there any other information that would be helpful here?

sumitaghosh avatar May 24 '24 16:05 sumitaghosh