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• log_likelihood used the chain/draw coordinate values as array indices. A posterior with burn-in dropped or thinned raised IndexError; duplicate labels (e.g. two runs concatenated along chain) raised nothing and left draws at 0.0.
• Loop over positions (range(n_chains), range(n_draws)). Output coordinates are unchanged, and traces labelled 0..n-1 give identical values.
• Test: a Normal family with chains [2, 3] and draws [10, 20, 30], checked against the closed form.
• Closes log_likelihood uses chain/draw labels as array indices: IndexError after dropping burn-in, silent zeros on duplicate labels #1447

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• Bug Fixes
  • Log-likelihood calculations in HSSM and RLSSM now handle nonconsecutive or nonzero chain and draw coordinates while preserving the original coordinates in results.
  • Calculations use draw positions rather than coordinate labels, preventing failures with thinned or burn-in-trimmed draws and incorrect zero values for duplicate labels. Standard positional labels produce the same values as before.
  • Recompute affected log-likelihoods and derived LOO results for posteriors with duplicate coordinate labels.

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log_likelihood now indexes chains and draws by position rather than coordinate labels. The output retains the posterior coordinates. A unit test covers nonconsecutive coordinates, and the changelog documents the change.

Changes: Log-likelihood position indexing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Position-based evaluation and validation src/hssm/utils.py, tests/unit/test_utils.py, docs/changelog.md	The calculation iterates over chain and draw positions. The test checks computed values and retained draw coordinates. The changelog describes the positional indexing change and duplicate-label case.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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This change makes log-likelihood work for traces with nonconsecutive chain or draw labels, and the behavior for standard labels is unchanged. The constrained-response branch is known to have a separate problem that may return identical likelihoods for every draw. That problem predates this change and is planned as a separate fix, so owners should be aware of it, but it need not block merging.

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Linked Issues check		Issue #1447 requires log_likelihood to read and write draws by position, not by chain/draw coordinate value. The whole-PR diff (mergeBase 26d82c7 to head 7d8f185) changes src/hssm/utils.py to …
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The title names the main change: log_likelihood in utils now indexes chain and draw by position instead of coordinate value. The raw summary confirms src/hssm/utils.py now iterates over positions rather than labels, with a test for nonzero, noncontiguous coordinates. The title is specific, follows the conventional commit style, and matches the linked issue #1447 objective.

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Issue #1447 requires log_likelihood to read and write draws by position, not by chain/draw coordinate value. The whole-PR diff (mergeBase 26d82c7 to head 7d8f185) changes src/hssm/utils.py to itertools.product(range(n_chains), range(n_draws)). Parameter reads use val[i_chain, i_draw, ...] and output writes use output_array[i_chain, i_draw, :]. Out-of-range labels no longer raise IndexError, and duplicate labels no longer leave 0.0 positions. Output coordinates are passed through unchanged in xr.DataArray(output_array, coords=coords). The added test tests/unit/test_utils.py::test_log_likelihood_indexes_draws_by_position uses chain labels [2, 3] and draw labels [10, 20, 30], checks values against the Normal closed form, and asserts the draw coordinates are preserved. The log_likelihood group subset behavior described in the issue is not changed. The constrained-branch concern in the PR comments is not part of #1447's requirements.

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The whole-PR diff contains the positional-indexing change in src/hssm/utils.py, the focused unit test in tests/unit/test_utils.py, and a changelog entry in docs/changelog.md per the raw summary. The code and test changes directly implement #1447. The changelog entry documents this behavior change. I did not read the changelog diff directly. Its content comes from the summary, which describes only documentation of this fix. No unrelated change is established. The constrained-branch behavior raised in comments is not changed by this PR.

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Major · Compile the constrained branch with symbolic parameters. · utils.py:299

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Compile the constrained branch with symbolic parameters.

For a constrained response, kwargs_prep passes the first chain and draw as concrete arrays into response_dist.dist(...). PyMC stores these values as constants. The compiled function then ignores its per-draw inputs. on_unused_input="ignore" hides the unused inputs, so each (chain, draw) iteration returns the same likelihood.

This predates the PR. The constrained branch is unchanged. The PR changes the failure mode for out-of-range labels: they previously raised IndexError and now return these constant values silently.

Build the truncated distribution from the symbolic pt_dict inputs, as the unconstrained branch already does:

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-                response_dist.dist(**kwargs_prep), lower=lower, upper=upper
+                response_dist.dist(**pt_dict), lower=lower, upper=upper

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Update the constrained branch’s truncated distribution construction to use the
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On CodeRabbit's note about the constrained branch: with a real Bambi constrained(y, lb=..., ub=...) model, that branch raises a shape error with this PR, with or without the suggested one-line change, because y_values keeps the bound columns. The constant likelihood only appears when y is passed explicitly. I left it out of this PR, since it needs its own fix and test.

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