Fritz Obermeyer

Hi @gui11aume, responding to your last question: the best tests we have of `ScoreParts` behavior are in [tests/infer/test_gradient.py](https://github.com/pyro-ppl/pyro/blob/dev/tests/infer/test_gradient.py). We have heavily relied on those test because they are much faster...

@gui11aume yes, your explanation sounds right. I'm sorry I don't recall why masking behaves differently from scaling; I vaguely recall there was a reason, but I forget whether that reason...

Hmm, I'd guess the most straightforward approach to inter-distribution cpu parallelism would be to [rely on the PyTorch jit](https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/notes/cpu_threading_torchscript_inference.html) by simply using [JitTrace_ELBO](https://docs.pyro.ai/en/stable/inference_algos.html#pyro.infer.trace_elbo.JitTrace_ELBO) or similar guide. **Pros:** - it's a...

I can take a look at those since I wrote the failing tests.

Hi @ConnorStoneAstro, Assuming your nn.Module parameters are frozen, you should be able to wrap them in a custom `torch.autograd.Function` that you can pass as the `potential_fn` to Pyro's HMC: ```python...

IIRC using `Distribution.mask()` stores the mask internally to the distribution, rather than in the trace; you should be able to see this with `trace.nodes[name]["fn"]` being a `MaskedDistribution`. By contrast `poutine.mask()`...

Hi @vitkl, Could you provide more details about the memory leak? Does memory use happen during training/inference or during prediction? Where are the observed data being saved? Are you `poutine.trace`ing...

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This looks reasonable to me. Since deterministic guide sites are usually ignored (e.g. in AutoGuides) I think we may want to gate this new behavior by an arg like `return_deterministic_guide_sites:...