Checklist for first release about numpyro

[jpchen]

More interesting examples

i have a gmm example (forked from the pyro ex) as soon as we have a categorical [edit: i see there's now a multinomial, which i can probably use

[neerajprad]

@fehiepsi - After discussing with @fritzo, I think it will be a good idea to move this to pyro-ppl, and develop in public. We should definitely look to address the issues above, and have an initial release at that point. What do you think?

[fehiepsi]

@neerajprad Sure, let's go for it!

[fehiepsi]

@neerajprad Nice updates for tasks! ;)

[fehiepsi]

A couple of good notebooks with explanations (not for benchmarking).

@neerajprad Which ones you have in mind? I think that it might be good to have one for bayesian regression (based on the similar one in Pyro) and one for local global trend (an excellent application). :)

[neerajprad]

I think that it might be good to have one for bayesian regression (based on the similar one in Pyro) and one for local global trend (an excellent application). :)

Let us do it - I could take up the bayesian regression tutorial notebook. Given that we have quite a few examples now, I think two tutorials should be good enough to target for the initial release - one more basic, and the other targeted towards more advanced users/applications.

[neerajprad]

Thanks, @fritzo! @jpchen has set up readthedocs at https://numpyro.readthedocs.io/en/latest/. Tutorials would be nice to have too, right now I have just linked to the jupyter notebooks on github in readme. @jpchen - let us know how much work that is.

[fehiepsi]

Nice! I agree with all of this.

[fehiepsi]

@jpchen If you need Dirichlet distribution, please let me know, I will implement it first. :)

[neerajprad]

i have a gmm example (forked from the pyro ex) as soon as we have a categorical

That's great! I think you should be able to use the multinomial directly, but let me know if you get into any issues.

[fritzo]

Thanks @neerajprad, you could even rename this issue to "Checklist before initial release". Now that we're part of Linux Foundation, I feel like development should be public whenever possible.

[fritzo]

I've added a couple bullets for documentation. It would be nice to publish documentation and maybe tutorials (readthedocs for docs and maybe num.pyro.ai for tutorials? @jpchen how much effort would that be?)

[jpchen]

sorry my notifications for this project are misconfigured.

yes i will build the tutorials and push them to the website tonight. id like to move the docs to the pyro.ai domain but that will take a while since it needs to go through multiple approvals internally.