Eric Proffitt

@vchuravy Thanks for getting back to me so quickly, apologies for the delay in getting back to you, it took me a bit to figure out how to set my...

Thanks @mrufsvold. I've been a bit busier than usual, so I haven't had time to review your PR, however I hope to get to it at my earliest convenience.

I made some minor changes, mostly syntactic, however `buffer` is not defined in the `findcoherence` function, so this needs to be fixed before we can proceed.

Going forward, I'm trying to enforce a comment syntax of `## comment...`, so I reverted this part of your commit back to what I had before. Also, there are some...

Hi Valerii, So the package doesn't currently have functionality for evaluation metrics. It's something you would need to implement yourself.

Hi @mrufsvold, Sure, if you'd like to, please add the functions at the bottom of the modelutils.jl file.

@mrufsvold You need to fork the repo and create your own branch, then open a pull request to merge changes on your branch into master. There are tutorials you can...

Hi, thanks for bringing this to my attention! Ideally the ELBO should never decrease. Variational Bayesian optimization iterates deterministically towards a local maxima and does not perform metaheuristics in search...

This is an incisive observation, and after taking a look back at Blei's CTM paper I think it's likely correct. Because fitting the hyperparameters of a Bayesian model means propagating...

So I took a look into this, and simply removing my Tikhonov regularization code fixed the problem of the long-term negative oscillatory behavior of the ELBO. Furthermore, because the covariance...