From 2ff50d89feeb4a5d877e4c5d4c7b552b25871dfb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Ola=20R=C3=B8nning?= Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2024 18:53:39 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] added note that sbvm is only accurate for conc <= 10k (#1924) --- numpyro/distributions/directional.py | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/numpyro/distributions/directional.py b/numpyro/distributions/directional.py index a7b92a585..9bc19a4d1 100644 --- a/numpyro/distributions/directional.py +++ b/numpyro/distributions/directional.py @@ -320,6 +320,9 @@ class SineBivariateVonMises(Distribution): .. note:: In the context of :class:`~numpyro.infer.svi.SVI`, this distribution can be used as a likelihood but not for latent variables. + .. note:: Normalization remains accurate for concentrations up to 10,000. Unlike Pyro, there is no assertion to + verify this during initialization, as JIT-compilation would invalidate such a check. + ** References: ** 1. Probabilistic model for two dependent circular variables Singh, H., Hnizdo, V., and Demchuck, E. (2002)