Im running the tutorials from Getting Started With Pyro: Tutorials, How-to Guides and Examples — Pyro Tutorials 1.8.4 documentation
Using Pyro version 0.1.2
Question: I see “pyro.sample” for various standard distributions. I these support for CPTs (Tables) that are defined by
the user ? and pyro.sample can extract samples directly from it. I could obviously define and do sampling manually, but I dont know how that would interact with the rest of pyro. Specificially, If I had one rand var generated from a cpt, and the others were from pyro.sample, how would that affect inference for say MCMC methods.
Pyro does require that all stochastic functions appear inside pyro.sample statements. You should be able to implement conditional probability tables using pyro.distributions.Categorical(my_table, one_hot=False): http://docs.pyro.ai/primitive_dist.html#module-pyro.distributions.categorical