1.5

What's Changed

• Fix blackjax.barker API and window_adaptation compatibility by @junpenglao in #841
• Fix Cholesky recomputed on every sampling step for dense mass matrix (#760) by @junpenglao in #842
• Replace deprecated jax.pmap with sharding API in multiple chains example by @junpenglao in #843
• Fix MEADS Algorithm 3 fold structure and epsilon formula by @junpenglao in #844
• Feat: Implement Full-Rank VI by @giladturok in #720
• Feat: Low-rank mass matrix adaptation (nutpie-aligned) by @junpenglao in #847
• Fix low_rank_window_adaptation: remove mu_star from params, reinit state at mu_star by @junpenglao in #848
• information typo by @AdamOrmondroyd in #850
• Rename tests/util.py to tests/fixtures.py by @junpenglao in #851
• Add Renyi alpha divergence to variational inference and tests by @OleksiiBevza in #849
• Make fastprogress an optional dependency by @junpenglao in #853

New Contributors

• @AdamOrmondroyd made their first contribution in #850
• @OleksiiBevza made their first contribution in #849

Full Changelog: 1.4...1.5

1.4

What's Changed

• Thin kernel and sampling algorithm by @hsimonfroy in #791
• Fix typo in comment about transition by @theorashid in #804
• Add ipython explicitly to requirement. by @junpenglao in #809
• Implement the Late Adjusted Parallel Sampler (LAPS) by @reubenharry in #806
• Modernize BlackJAX for JAX 0.9.x compatibility by @junpenglao in #815
• Fix ESS-target comparison in adaptive persistent sampling solver by @thomasckng in #811
• Fix inner kernel tuning initialization for compatibility with persistent SMC by @thomasckng in #810
• Phase 5: adopt jax.tree module and jax.Array annotations by @junpenglao in #816
• Replace jaxopt with optax for L-BFGS optimization by @junpenglao in #817
• Align Pathfinder with VIAlgorithm and fix VIAlgorithm docstring by @junpenglao in #818
• Add JIT-compatible PSIS weights utility by @junpenglao in #819
• Add multi-path Pathfinder variational inference by @junpenglao in #820
• Align psis_weights with Vehtari et al. (2017) Algorithm 1 by @junpenglao in #821
• Bump pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish from 1.4.2 to 1.13.0 in /.github/workflows by @dependabot[bot] in #822
• Make marginal_latent_gaussian PyTree compatible by @junpenglao in #823
• Docstring completeness and naming consistency cleanup by @junpenglao in #824
• Improve test suite: consistency, coverage, and speed by @junpenglao in #825

New Contributors

• @theorashid made their first contribution in #804
• @thomasckng made their first contribution in #811
• @dependabot[bot] made their first contribution in #822

Full Changelog: 1.3...1.4

1.3

What's Changed

• MCLMC adaptation total num steps and initial guess by @hsimonfroy in #778
• SMC: Joint tuning and pretuning by @ciguaran in #776
• Energy error monitoring by @reubenharry in #784
• ping Jaxopt version to unbreak test by @junpenglao in #789
• Update python version for test by @junpenglao in #798
• Rename lmbda to tempering_param in SMC by @junpenglao in #801
• Add Persistent Sampling Algorithm to BlackJAX by @ChrisBoettner in #799
• Cleaning Up SMC Submodule (Type hints, docs strings, non-functional changes) by @ChrisBoettner in #802
• Improve the robustness of ChEES-HMC. by @pipme in #803

New Contributors

• @hsimonfroy made their first contribution in #778
• @ChrisBoettner made their first contribution in #799
• @pipme made their first contribution in #803

Full Changelog: 1.2.5...1.3

1.2.5

What's Changed

• Partial posteriors SMC and refactor to decouple tempering from SMC construction by @ciguaran in #729
• Add pre-conditioning matrix to Barker proposal by @ismael-mendoza in #731
• Add logjac to logdensity_fn by @junpenglao in #751
• Adjusted MCLMC by @reubenharry in #675
• SMC Pretuning by @ciguaran in #765
• Remove meeting scheduling by @junpenglao in #768
• Adjusted MCLMC by @reubenharry in #771
• Test SMC Pretuning with adaptive tempering by @ciguaran in #772

New Contributors

• @ismael-mendoza made their first contribution in #731

Full Changelog: 1.2.4...1.2.5

1.2.4

What's Changed

• Simplify run_inference_algorithm by @reubenharry in #714
• Bug: Harmonize doc and README code examples by @gil2rok in #717
• Fix README example by @gil2rok in #719
• Bug fix by @reubenharry in #724
• Waste Free SMC available for adaptive tempered and tempered SMC. by @ciguaran in #721
• NaN Handling by @reubenharry in #727
• Implement metric scaling by @AdrienCorenflos in #733
• Speed up Schrodinger Follmer test by @AdrienCorenflos in #741

Full Changelog: 1.2.3...1.2.4

1.2.3

What's Changed

• Fixing typo in example on index page - leading to 30x faster runtime. by @johannahaffner in #711
• Enable progress bar under pmap by @andrewdipper in #712
• wrapper for progress _bar_scan by @andrewdipper in #716

New Contributors

• @johannahaffner made their first contribution in #711

Full Changelog: 1.2.2...1.2.3

1.2.2

What's Changed

• Make tests pass on aarch64-linux by @albcab in #671
• Enable fitlering of AdaptationInfo by @andrewdipper in #674
• Update run_inference_algorithm to split initial_position and initial_state by @reubenharry in #672
• Preconditioned mclmc by @reubenharry in #673
• New integrator, and add some metadata to integrators.py by @reubenharry in #681
• Minor formatting by @junpenglao in #685
• Make Window Adaptation Take Integrator As Argument by @reubenharry in #687
• FIX KWARG BUG by @reubenharry in #686
• Change isokinetic_integrator generation API by @junpenglao in #689
• Apply function on pytree directly. by @junpenglao in #692
• Fix sampling test. by @junpenglao in #693
• Enable shared mcmc parameters with tempered smc by @andrewdipper in #694
• Convert explicit looping to bit twiddling for iterative_uturn calculations by @andrewdipper in #696
• Remove nightly release by @junpenglao in #699
• Fix doc mistakes by @gil2rok in #701

New Contributors

• @andrewdipper made their first contribution in #674
• @gil2rok made their first contribution in #701

Full Changelog: 1.2.1...1.2.2

1.2.1

What's Changed

• Fix deprecated call to jnp.clip by @GaetanLepage in #664
• Update jax version requirements by @junpenglao in #666

New Contributors

• @GaetanLepage made their first contribution in #664

Full Changelog: 1.2.0...1.2.1

Blackjax v1.2.0

Mostly internal change, a major one being a different implementation for top level api (#657)

What's Changed

• Indexing the notebook showing how to reproduce the GIF. by @AdrienCorenflos in #640
• Bump python version by @junpenglao in #645
• SMC: allow each mutation kernel to have different parameters. by @ciguaran in #649
• Migrate from deprecated host_callback to io_callback by @junpenglao in #651
• Fix MALA transition energy by @ksnxr in #653
• Change variable names by @ksnxr in #654
• Replace iterative RNG split and carry with jax.random.fold_in by @junpenglao in #656
• Removal of Algorithm classes. by @ciguaran in #657

New Contributors

• @ksnxr made their first contribution in #653

Full Changelog: 1.1.1...1.2.0

1.1.1

What's Changed

• minor clean up by @junpenglao in #635
• Example showing how to use BlackJAX to sample from the word "BlackJAX" by @AdrienCorenflos in #637
• Update README.md by @AdrienCorenflos in #638

Full Changelog: 1.1.0...1.1.1