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Revision 6388133f7bf8f290661bc1a5db917f2a71762bab authored by st-- on 08 April 2020, 13:52:11 UTC, committed by GitHub on 08 April 2020, 13:52:11 UTC
Addresses #1407.

* attempt to improve the error message in the gpflow.Parameter check on assigning a new value that is incompatible with the parameter's transform (e.g. a non-positive value to a parameter with a positive() transform)

* Gaussian likelihood: add explicit `__init__`-time check that variance > variance_lower_bound, add `__init__` docstring, move "default variance lower bound" magic number into class-level constant

* change gpflow.config's positive_minimum to always be a float (initialized to 0.0 by default)
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Tip revision: 6388133f7bf8f290661bc1a5db917f2a71762bab authored by st-- on 08 April 2020, 13:52:11 UTC
Improve user experience on invalid assignments to constrained Parameters (#1408)
Tip revision: 6388133
probability_distributions.py
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# Eventually, it would be nice to not have to have our own classes for
# proability distributions. The TensorFlow "distributions" framework would
# be a good replacement.


class ProbabilityDistribution:
    """
    This is the base class for a probability distributions,
    over which we take the expectations in the expectations framework.
    """

    pass


class Gaussian(ProbabilityDistribution):
    def __init__(self, mu, cov):
        self.mu = mu  # [N, D]
        self.cov = cov  # [N, D, D]


class DiagonalGaussian(ProbabilityDistribution):
    def __init__(self, mu, cov):
        self.mu = mu  # [N, D]
        self.cov = cov  # [N, D]


class MarkovGaussian(ProbabilityDistribution):
    """
    Gaussian distribution with Markov structure.
    Only covariances and covariances between t and t+1 need to be
    parameterised. We use the solution proposed by Carl Rasmussen, i.e. to
    represent
    Var[x_t] = cov[x_t, :, :] * cov[x_t, :, :].T
    Cov[x_t, x_{t+1}] = cov[t, :, :] * cov[t+1, :, :]
    """

    def __init__(self, mu, cov):
        self.mu = mu  # N+[1, D]
        self.cov = cov  # 2 x (N+1)[, D, D]
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