They don’t work without continuous parameters. If you have a probabilistic program that includes both discrete and continuous parameters, you can use gradient methods to generate MH proposals for your continuous parameters. I don’t think there are any publications that discuss this yet.
Oh, ok that makes perfect sense. Breaking inference problems into sub problems and using different methods on the sub problems seems like a common technique.
They don’t work without continuous parameters. If you have a probabilistic program that includes both discrete and continuous parameters, you can use gradient methods to generate MH proposals for your continuous parameters. I don’t think there are any publications that discuss this yet.
Oh, ok that makes perfect sense. Breaking inference problems into sub problems and using different methods on the sub problems seems like a common technique.