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Fix map() init_method docstrings and error messages - #2106
The map()init_method docstrings list prior as a valid string, but that option was renamed to proposal in the code in 2022 and the docstrings were missed (history from @janfb in #2092). So the documented init_method="prior" hit the fall-through raise ValueError with no message, on every posterior.
Per the direction in #2092, this does not add a prior option. It makes the docstrings and errors match the real behaviour:
Each map() docstring lists the options that posterior supports: posterior or proposal for the MCMC, rejection, importance and VI posteriors (proposal defaults to the prior), and posterior only for the direct, vector field and ensemble posteriors, which have no proposal.
proposal now raises a clear message on the posteriors that have no proposal, instead of an AttributeError (direct, vector field) or a bare ValueError (ensemble).
The fall-through error names the valid options.
The docstrings note that prior based initialisation is done by passing prior samples as a tensor, which already works everywhere.
Before, on a trained NPE (DirectPosterior, no proposal):
post.map(init_method="prior") # ValueError() (empty message)post.map(init_method="proposal") # AttributeError: 'DirectPosterior' has no attribute 'proposal'
After:
post.map(init_method="prior", force_update=True)
# ValueError: Invalid init_method 'prior'. Use 'posterior', or pass initial# locations as a tensor (for example prior samples).post.map(init_method="proposal", force_update=True)
# ValueError: init_method='proposal' is not available for DirectPosterior,# which has no proposal distribution. ...
Note: map() caches its result, so the tests pass force_update=True to actually exercise the init_method branch rather than returning a cached MAP.
New test file tests/posterior_map_init_test.py:
tests/posterior_map_init_test.py .... [100%]
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I added or updated tests for the changed behavior.
I used Google-style docstrings for new or changed public functions.
The map() init_method docstrings advertised 'prior', but that option was
renamed to 'proposal' in the code in 2022 and the docstrings were missed. So
init_method='prior' fell through to a bare, message-less ValueError on every
posterior.
Rather than reintroduce 'prior', align the docstrings and errors with the
actual behaviour:
- Each map() docstring now lists the options that posterior supports:
'posterior' or 'proposal' for the MCMC, rejection, importance and VI
posteriors (the proposal defaults to the prior), and 'posterior' only for
the direct, vector field and ensemble posteriors, which have no proposal.
- 'proposal' now fails with an informative message on the posteriors that
have no proposal, instead of an AttributeError or a bare ValueError.
- The fall-through ValueError now names the valid options.
- The docstrings note that prior-based initialization is done by passing
prior samples as a tensor, which already works everywhere.
Added tests covering the posterior and tensor paths, the unavailable
proposal case, and an invalid init_method.
Closessbi-dev#2092
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MAP initialization now uses shared logic to select posterior samples, available proposal samples, or supplied tensors. Importance-sampling and amortized VI posteriors add specialized sampling behavior. Documentation and tests describe and check initialization options.
The base posterior selects and validates initial points and moves tensor inputs to the posterior device. Ensemble and vector-field MAP methods use the shared helper. Documentation describes supported string options and tensor-supplied initial locations.
Importance-sampling MAP initialization uses SIR samples. Amortized VI initialization draws samples across observations, flattens them, and randomly selects the requested count. Copying a VIPosterior deep-copies its amortized flow and moves the copy to the receiving device.
Test initialization and posterior copying tests/posterior_map_init_test.py, tests/inference_on_device_test.py, tests/vi_test.py
Tests check unsupported options, importance-sampling and amortized VI initialization, tensor device placement, and independence of the amortized variational distribution in a q= clone.
sbi-dev/sbi#2093: It changes the same MAP initialization contract by adding "prior" as an option, which conflicts with this change’s tensor-based prior initialization.
sbi-dev/sbi#2123: It changes observation handling in EnsemblePosterior.map() and the same joint MAP path.
sbi-dev/sbi#2111: It changes posterior-start sampling at call sites that this change moves into _map_inits().
Suggested reviewers:janfb, manuelgloeckler
Merge Risk: Minimal · up to f3a05
MAP initialization now handles tensor devices and copied amortized flows. The existing multi-observation NPE limitation remains, but no PR-introduced merge-blocking risk was identified.
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Issue [#2092] identifies init_method="prior" as a documented behavior that fails and proposes prior-based initialization. The PR removes "prior" from the documentation and rejects it as invalid. T…
Implement init_method="prior" in the shared MAP initialization path. Draw the requested number of starts from self.prior, document the option for applicable posteriors, and add tests for prior initialization.
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Issue [#2092] identifies init_method="prior" as a documented behavior that fails and proposes prior-based initialization. The PR removes "prior" from the documentation and rejects it as invalid. The new _map_inits() supports "posterior", "proposal", and tensor starts, with informative errors, but it does not implement the linked issue's prior-string behavior. The added tests cover error messages and other initialization paths, not init_method="prior".
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Implement init_method="prior" in the shared MAP initialization path. Draw the requested number of starts from self.prior, document the option for applicable posteriors, and add tests for prior initialization.
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Review comments at @sbi/inference/posteriors/ensemble_posterior.py:
- Line 376: Update the `init_method` documentation in the ensemble posterior
options to limit the `"posterior"` requirement to the non-individual ensemble
MAP path. Explain that with `individually=True`, the value is forwarded to each
component and supported strings depend on that component, including `"proposal"`
for `MCMCPosterior`.
Review comments at @sbi/inference/posteriors/importance_posterior.py:
- Line 348: Update the initialization-method documentation in
ImportanceSamplingPosterior to state that `init_method="posterior"` requires
`method="sir"` because importance sampling returns a `(samples, weights)` tuple;
leave the existing `proposal` initialization behavior unchanged.
Review comments at @sbi/inference/posteriors/vi_posterior.py:
- Line 1349: Update the `VIPosterior` docstring for `init_method="proposal"` to
state that it samples the unconditional variational distribution `self.q`, not
the prior or the conditional `_amortized_q` in amortized mode.
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The errors are raised before any network is evaluated, so the tests build the posteriors from untrained estimators instead of training an NPE (about 1 s instead of 9 s). They cover the direct, vector field and ensemble posteriors, which each dispatch init_method separately, and a rejection posterior, whose message also lists 'proposal'. The tests of the 'posterior' and tensor inits are dropped: they passed before this PR, and the existing map tests cover both.
…terior'
With method='importance', ImportanceSamplingPosterior.sample() returns (samples, log_weights), so map(init_method='posterior') crashed with a TypeError inside gradient_ascent. The 'posterior' inits are now drawn with SIR, which is what sample() returns with method='sir', so that case is unchanged. The docstring no longer needs the caveat.
…gle-x q
VIPosterior.map() defaults to init_method='proposal' and sets the proposal to self.q. train_amortized() fits a separate conditional flow and leaves self.q untouched, so in amortized mode the MAP started from samples of a flow that never saw the data. In amortized mode, 'proposal' now draws from q(θ|x) at the default x, which is what sample() returns. Single-x mode is unchanged.
NeuralPosterior._map_inits() now holds the init_method dispatch and its error messages. The vector field and ensemble posteriors call it instead of keeping their own copies, so their messages now name the class like the others do. ImportanceSamplingPosterior overrides only this hook to draw 'posterior' starts with SIR, instead of repeating all parameters of _calculate_map().
The test fixture is now function-scoped, so the autouse seed applies to its data. The 'unknown init_method' cases for the vector field and ensemble posteriors are dropped: both now go through the shared hook, which the 'proposal' cases already reach.
With several iid observations in the default x, amortized VI's sample() returns one batch of samples per observation, shaped (n, num_obs, theta_dim). Redirecting init_method='proposal' to 'posterior' therefore crashed the default map() call in the MAP optimizer, and 'posterior' crashed there before. VIPosterior now overrides the MAP-start hook: in amortized mode both strings draw from q(θ|x) and pool the samples over the observations. The redirect in map() is gone.
The amortized VI test now uses two iid observations, so it covers both the untrained single-x q and the pooling.
…tions
Pooling drew num_init_samples per observation, so map() scored num_obs times more starts. The iid potential evaluates every start against every observation, so the cost grew with num_obs squared: 10^8 likelihood evaluations for VI's default 10_000 starts and 100 observations. The starts are now drawn as ceil(num_init_samples / num_obs) per observation and trimmed to num_init_samples. The docstring now says that both strings draw from the variational distribution.
The importance sampling hook no longer rebinds the potential: map() binds the default x right before, and nothing passes x to this hook. The MCMC, rejection and importance docstrings no longer say the proposal defaults to the prior: it is a required constructor argument, and it is the prior for posteriors from build_posterior(). The test helper raises on an unknown posterior kind instead of building a rejection posterior.
@SahilKumar75 thanks for this fix! The docstrings and error messages look good. I will just add a few small commits on top as review capacity is limited at the moment.
The PR description is partly out of date after these commits, so here is the final state:
Each map() docstring lists the init_method options its posterior supports. Prior-based starts work by passing prior samples as a tensor.
An unknown init_method raises an error that lists the valid options. "proposal" raises a clear error on the direct, vector field and ensemble posteriors, which have no proposal.
The choice of starting points now lives in one place, shared by all posteriors.
For VI, the proposal is the variational distribution, not the prior. In amortized mode, the MAP now starts from the trained flow, also for several iid observations.
init_method="posterior" now also works for importance sampling with method="importance".
The tests need no training and run in about a second.
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The pooled starts are ordered by sample, then by observation, so trimming to num_init_samples always dropped the last observations. With more iid observations than starts, the starts came only from the first observations. The trim now keeps a random subset.
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The unknown-string case on the direct posterior is dropped: it runs the same shared code as the rejection case, which now uses init_method='prior', the call from issue sbi-dev#2092. A mutation run that restores the bare ValueError still fails that case. The comment in the VI hook is cut to its constraint; the rationale is in the commit messages.
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- Around line 1340-1347: Update set_q so cloning an amortized VIPosterior also
deep-copies the source _amortized_q and moves it to the destination device,
keeping it consistent with the copied _mode; ensure proposal initialization can
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- Around line 1340-1347: Update the potential binding in VIPosterior.map() for
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set_q() with a VIPosterior copied its mode but not its trained conditional flow. A clone of an amortized posterior therefore failed an assertion in sample(), and since map() now draws amortized starts through sample(), in map() as well. set_q() now deep-copies the conditional flow too and moves it to the device of the new posterior. The amortized round-trip test covers the clone.
…main
The shared start-point hook was called inside the gradient_ascent() call, after the potential argument was read. Drawing posterior starts calls sample(), which can rebind the potential, for example as iid trials in an MCMC posterior. On main the potential was read after the starts were drawn, so map() now does that again in the base and the ensemble.
The round-trip test passed even if set_q() shared the source's conditional flow, in which case training the clone would change the source. It now asserts the copy, as the multi-round test does for q, and a mutation run that shares the flow fails it.
Move tensor initial locations to the posterior device.
If a GPU posterior receives CPU prior samples, _map_inits returns them unchanged. gradient_ascent evaluates them before moving them, and a GPU likelihood potential can fail on a device mismatch. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
Move tensor initial locations to self._device before returning them.
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Update the Tensor branch in `_map_inits` to move `init_method` to `self._device`
before returning it, so initial locations match the posterior device.
Add a value-based regression for small pooled budgets.
The new test uses two identical observations and checks only the MAP bound and output shape. A regression that keeps the first num_init_samples pooled rows would therefore drop later observations while all current assertions still pass. Add three distinguishable observations, use num_init_samples=2, and assert that a later observation can produce a selected start.
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Extend test_amortized_vi_map_starts_from_amortized_q_for_iid_x with a
deterministic value-based regression: use three distinguishable observations,
request two proposal starts, and assert that a selected start comes from a later
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- Around line 287-288: Update the Tensor branch in `_map_inits` to move
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map() used a tensor init_method as given, so CPU prior samples as starts for a posterior on the GPU failed with a device mismatch when the potential was evaluated, for NPE, NLE and NRE alike. The docstrings now recommend prior samples as a tensor for prior-based starts, so the shared start-point hook moves the tensor to the posterior's device. CodeRabbit found this.
The shared MAP start hook reads cleaner than what I had, and the amortized VI fixes make sense. Summary matches the code, good to merge from my side. Saw you opened #2121 for the ensemble map deprecation. I can take that one if it is not already spoken for.
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With fewer starts than observations, keeping the first pooled rows would drop the later observations without any test noticing. The amortized VI test now stubs the flow so that each observation's sample carries its index, and checks that the last observation can be chosen. A mutation run that keeps the first rows fails it. CodeRabbit found the gap.
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What does this PR do?
The
map()init_methoddocstrings listprioras a valid string, but that option was renamed toproposalin the code in 2022 and the docstrings were missed (history from @janfb in #2092). So the documentedinit_method="prior"hit the fall-throughraise ValueErrorwith no message, on every posterior.Per the direction in #2092, this does not add a
prioroption. It makes the docstrings and errors match the real behaviour:map()docstring lists the options that posterior supports:posteriororproposalfor the MCMC, rejection, importance and VI posteriors (proposal defaults to the prior), andposterioronly for the direct, vector field and ensemble posteriors, which have no proposal.proposalnow raises a clear message on the posteriors that have no proposal, instead of anAttributeError(direct, vector field) or a bareValueError(ensemble).Does this close any issues?
Closes #2092.
Anything else we should know?
Before, on a trained NPE (
DirectPosterior, no proposal):After:
Note:
map()caches its result, so the tests passforce_update=Trueto actually exercise theinit_methodbranch rather than returning a cached MAP.New test file
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