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@Michal-Novomestsky Michal-Novomestsky commented Jun 10, 2025

Addresses #342.

This PR should add:

  • find_mode

Contingent on pymc-devs/pytensor#1182, as it uses pytensor.tensor.optimize.minimize to find the mode (and hessian at that point).

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Michal-Novomestsky commented Jun 17, 2025

Currently there's a few outstanding TODOs. These are just issues getting quality-of-life features to work with pytensor - the actual algorithm itself works fine. Please find the TODOs listed as comments in the code, and use the code in test_find_mode as a reference (you can copy-paste the contents of test_find_mode straight into a jupyter notebook if you want to dig inside the variables and have a play around).

use_jac: bool = True,
use_hess: bool = False, # TODO Tbh we can probably just remove this arg and pass True to the minimizer all the time, but if this is the case, it will throw a warning when the hessian doesn't need to be computed for a particular optimisation routine.
optimizer_kwargs: dict | None = None,
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Signature is wrong, this function returns numpy arrays.

But why are you compiling a pytensor function and evaluating it? This seems to just be doing find_map? I imagine you wanted a symbolic mode not the numerical (evaluated) one?

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I felt that for the purposes of INLA, we only ever needed numerical values of mode and hess, but in truth, simply returning the compiled function probably makes this more versatile as well as eliminating a need for x0 and args (although these will likely need to be obtained somewhere later). I'll refactor it to return the compiled function.

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