Parameters¶
-
param
([options])¶ Retrieves the value of a parameter by name. The parameter is created if it does not already exist.
The following options are supported:
-
dims
When
dims
is given,param
returns a tensor of dimensiondims
. In this casedims
should be an array.When
dims
is omitted,param
returns a scalar.
-
init
A function that computes the initial value of the parameter. The function is passed the dimension of a tensor as its only argument, and should return a tensor of that dimension.
When
init
is omitted, the parameter is initialized with a draw from the Gaussian distribution described by themu
andsigma
options.
-
mu
The mean of the Gaussian distribution from which the initial parameter value is drawn when
init
is omitted.Default:
0
-
sigma
The standard deviation of the Gaussian distribution from which the initial parameter value is drawn when
init
is omitted. Specify a standard deviation of0
to deterministically initialize the parameter tomu
.Default:
0.1
-
name
The name of the parameter to retrieve. If
name
is omitted a default name is automatically generated based on the current stack address, relative to the current coroutine.
Examples:
param() param({name: 'myparam'}) param({mu: 0, sigma: 0.01, name: 'myparam'}) param({dims: [10, 10]}) param({dims: [2, 1], init: function(dims) { return ones(dims); }})
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-
modelParam
([options])¶ An analog of
param
used to create or retrieve a parameter that can be used directly in the model.Optimizing the ELBO yields maximum likelihood estimation for model parameters.
modelParam
cannot be used with other inference strategies as it does not have an interpretation in the fully Bayesian setting. Attempting to do so will raise an exception.modelParam
supports the same options asparam
. See the documentation for param for details.