Release 0.36

[penelopeysm]

To include

• AbstractPPL 0.11 + change prefixing behaviour #830
• Unify {untyped,typed}_{vector_,}varinfo constructor functions #879
• A similar PR on SimpleVarInfo constructors
• Potentially Implement AD testing and benchmarking (hand rolled) #882 or Implement AD testing and benchmarking (with DITest) #883

[codecov]

Codecov Report

Attention: Patch coverage is 76.47059% with 32 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.

Project coverage is 84.87%. Comparing base (c7bdc3f) to head (e410f47).

Files with missing lines	Patch %	Lines
src/varinfo.jl	74.57%	30 Missing ⚠️
src/utils.jl	60.00%	2 Missing ⚠️

Additional details and impacted files

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- Misses        575      582       +7     

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Pull Request Test Coverage Report for Build 13673973133

Details

• 0 of 0 changed or added relevant lines in 0 files are covered.
• 438 unchanged lines in 16 files lost coverage.
• Overall coverage decreased (-11.5%) to 73.166%

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Files with Coverage Reduction	New Missed Lines	%
ext/DynamicPPLEnzymeCoreExt.jl	1	0.0%
src/experimental.jl	3	0.0%
src/submodel_macro.jl	3	81.08%
src/varinfo.jl	4	82.82%
src/threadsafe.jl	5	67.62%
src/varnamedvector.jl	6	90.37%
src/simple_varinfo.jl	7	78.95%
src/context_implementations.jl	11	81.25%
src/model.jl	11	84.17%
ext/DynamicPPLJETExt.jl	16	0.0%

Totals
Change from base Build 13634518410:	-11.5%
Covered Lines:	2792
Relevant Lines:	3816

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[coveralls]

Pull Request Test Coverage Report for Build 13673973133

Details

• 0 of 0 changed or added relevant lines in 0 files are covered.
• 438 unchanged lines in 16 files lost coverage.
• Overall coverage decreased (-11.5%) to 73.166%

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Files with Coverage Reduction	New Missed Lines	%
ext/DynamicPPLEnzymeCoreExt.jl	1	0.0%
src/experimental.jl	3	0.0%
src/submodel_macro.jl	3	81.08%
src/varinfo.jl	4	82.82%
src/threadsafe.jl	5	67.62%
src/varnamedvector.jl	6	90.37%
src/simple_varinfo.jl	7	78.95%
src/context_implementations.jl	11	81.25%
src/model.jl	11	84.17%
ext/DynamicPPLJETExt.jl	16	0.0%

Totals
Change from base Build 13634518410:	-11.5%
Covered Lines:	2792
Relevant Lines:	3816

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Pull Request Test Coverage Report for Build 14404602295

Details

• 89 of 136 (65.44%) changed or added relevant lines in 8 files are covered.
• 1201 unchanged lines in 26 files lost coverage.
• Overall coverage decreased (-0.05%) to 84.964%

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Changes Missing Coverage	Covered Lines	Changed/Added Lines	%
src/sampler.jl	0	1	0.0%
src/simple_varinfo.jl	0	1	0.0%
src/test_utils/contexts.jl	0	1	0.0%
src/utils.jl	3	5	60.0%
src/varinfo.jl	76	118	64.41%

Files with Coverage Reduction	New Missed Lines	%
src/DynamicPPL.jl	1	90.91%
src/submodel_macro.jl	2	82.35%
src/extract_priors.jl	5	53.57%
src/test_utils/model_interface.jl	5	22.22%
src/test_utils/varinfo.jl	5	76.19%
src/values_as_in_model.jl	6	43.9%
src/logdensityfunction.jl	7	64.44%
src/model_utils.jl	7	7.14%
src/distribution_wrappers.jl	13	9.76%
src/model.jl	13	80.0%

Totals
Change from base Build 14392526425:	-0.05%
Covered Lines:	3266
Relevant Lines:	3844

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Benchmark Report for Commit e410f47

Computer Information

Julia Version 1.11.4
Commit 8561cc3d68d (2025-03-10 11:36 UTC)
Build Info:
  Official https://julialang.org/ release
Platform Info:
  OS: Linux (x86_64-linux-gnu)
  CPU: 4 × AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core Processor
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  LLVM: libLLVM-16.0.6 (ORCJIT, znver3)
Threads: 1 default, 0 interactive, 1 GC (on 4 virtual cores)

Benchmark Results

|                 Model | Dimension |  AD Backend |      VarInfo Type | Linked | Eval Time / Ref Time | AD Time / Eval Time |
|-----------------------|-----------|-------------|-------------------|--------|----------------------|---------------------|
| Simple assume observe |         1 | forwarddiff |             typed |  false |                  9.5 |                 1.6 |
|           Smorgasbord |       201 | forwarddiff |             typed |  false |                636.8 |                40.6 |
|           Smorgasbord |       201 | forwarddiff | simple_namedtuple |   true |                428.7 |                44.7 |
|           Smorgasbord |       201 | forwarddiff |           untyped |   true |               1224.3 |                27.6 |
|           Smorgasbord |       201 | forwarddiff |       simple_dict |   true |               4046.7 |                19.3 |
|           Smorgasbord |       201 | reversediff |             typed |   true |               1470.3 |                28.8 |
|           Smorgasbord |       201 |    mooncake |             typed |   true |                948.2 |                 5.3 |
|    Loop univariate 1k |      1000 |    mooncake |             typed |   true |               5469.4 |                 4.3 |
|       Multivariate 1k |      1000 |    mooncake |             typed |   true |               1128.4 |                 8.3 |
|   Loop univariate 10k |     10000 |    mooncake |             typed |   true |              60886.3 |                 3.8 |
|      Multivariate 10k |     10000 |    mooncake |             typed |   true |               8958.5 |                 9.6 |
|               Dynamic |        10 |    mooncake |             typed |   true |                133.3 |                12.9 |
|              Submodel |         1 |    mooncake |             typed |   true |                 25.1 |                 9.2 |
|                   LDA |        12 | reversediff |             typed |   true |                416.3 |                 5.8 |