[EItanm1999]

Closes #1496.

• Adds a how-to notebook, docs/how_to/fit_st_models.ipynb, under How-to guides > Sampling and diagnostics. Per review it is a notebook in How-to rather than a prose FAQ.
• The notebook reproduces each failure on simulated ddm_st data and shows the fix:
  1. responses below t, which an HSSM older than 0.5.1 floors (Fix ensure_positive_ndt for models with trial-to-trial ndt variability #1292);
  2. rt <= 0 at the corner of the training box, which HSSM refuses;
  3. clean diagnostics with wrong group means under the default Normal(0, 0.25) prior on the group means: t's group mean goes from 0.41 to 0.93, with r-hat 1.004 and no divergences; Normal(0, 2) recovers it;
  4. a lapse term (p_outlier) the data do not have;
  5. st as a half-width in ddm_st against an SD in ddm_normal_st.
• Follows ddm_hierarchical_tutorial: FULL_RUN=0 (default) is a quick CI run, and the saved outputs are FULL_RUN=1 (12 subjects x 300 trials, 43 min on 4 CPU cores). Listed in execute_ignore.
• DDM_ST_ONNX and DDM_NORMAL_ST_ONNX point the notebook at local network files, so it runs before the networks reach franklab/HSSM.
• Merge after Register ddm_st (uniform non-decision-time variability) #1346 and Register ddm_normal_st (Normal non-decision-time variability) #1345 and after both networks are on franklab/HSSM.
• Checked: ruff check and ruff format --check . pass; mkdocs build with notebook execution off reports no warnings.
• A ground-up tutorial for the two models is planned separately.

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Walkthrough

Adds a documentation FAQ for ddm_st and ddm_normal_st convergence and estimation issues. The FAQ covers model behavior, support edges, training bounds, hierarchical priors, lapse settings, diagnostics, and known limitations. The documentation navigation links to the FAQ overview and guidance.

Changes: Variable non-decision-time FAQ

Layer / File(s)	Summary
FAQ guidance and navigation docs/faq/st_models.md, docs/faq/index.md, mkdocs.yml	Adds detailed troubleshooting guidance for ddm_st and ddm_normal_st, an overview linking to that guidance, and a top-level FAQ navigation section.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Other · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Possibly related issues

• lnccbrown/HSSM#1487 — The FAQ describes a hierarchical group-mean prior issue for t and suggests a wider prior, but does not change the default prior.

Suggested labels: documentation

Suggested reviewers: cpaniaguam, digicosmos86

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 6dc73

The FAQ documents two models that are not yet registered on this branch, so its example fails if published first. Merge it only after the two registration PRs land, and run Ruff formatting on the FAQ file so the required lint check passes.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check		Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Linked Issues check		Linked issue #1496 has one active direct target. Its coding requirements are the FAQ content and the top-level tab. Coverage at head, from docs/faq/st_models.md: - Model formulas and meaning of st …
Out of Scope Changes check		The changed files are docs/faq/index.md (FAQ heading and introduction), docs/faq/st_models.md (the FAQ entry), and mkdocs.yml (navigation for the top-level FAQ section). Each file directly implements …
Title check		The title identifies the convergence problem covered by the FAQ, but it calls the change a notebook when the pull request adds FAQ documentation.

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Explanation

Linked issue #1496 has one active direct target. Its coding requirements are the FAQ content and the top-level tab. Coverage at head, from docs/faq/st_models.md:

• Model formulas and meaning of st (issue item 1): section 'The two models' gives both kernels and states that st is a half-width in ddm_st and an SD in ddm_normal_st.
• Support guard requiring HSSM with #1292 (item 2): section 1 gives the support edges and names #1292 and HSSM 0.5.1.
• Training box and removing rt <= 0 (item 3): section 2 gives the bounds and a filtering snippet.
• Group-mean prior under log_logit, Normal(0, 0.25) pulling toward bound midpoints, and the Normal(0, 2) fix (item 4): section 3 gives the mechanism, a recovery table with the t population SD row (0.23 to 0.24 against truth 0.057), and a bambi code fix with mu=0.0, sigma=2.0. The page does not state the '2 to 4 times' spread inflation in those words.
• Lapse settings (item 5): section 4 gives p_outlier=None for lapse-free simulated data and a lapse term for real data.
• Clean diagnostics and network weaknesses (item 6): section 5 covers both.

The top-level FAQ tab is supported by docs/faq/index.md at head and by the change summary for mkdocs.yml. The mkdocs.yml diff could not be read, so the navigation entry rests on that summary. The recovery numbers come from the author's reruns. They cannot be reproduced from the repository, so they are not independently verified here. The external figures from LAN_pipeline_minimal and the Hugging Face model card are cited, not checked.

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The changed files are docs/faq/index.md (FAQ heading and introduction), docs/faq/st_models.md (the FAQ entry), and mkdocs.yml (navigation for the top-level FAQ section). Each file directly implements the FAQ tab or the entry that #1496 requests. The page content does not extend beyond the issue's topics. The mkdocs.yml diff could not be read directly, so its scope rests on the change summary. The summary reports only a navigation addition, which matches the requested tab.

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docs/faq/st_models.md-48-49: 1

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Merge the model registrations before publishing this FAQ.

At the reviewed revision, neither model appears in SupportedModels. The example at Line 84 therefore reaches the custom-model path and fails because it supplies no loglik_kind. The claim that both models declare their support edge is not yet true for this revision. Merge #1346 and #1345 first, as the PR description requires, or defer this page until both models are registered. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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On the merge order: agreed, and the description already says this merges after #1346 and #1345. Both registrations are in those PRs, which are mergeable and wait only on the root ONNX files on franklab/HSSM; this page goes in after them.

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