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* [Add Gaussian Process submodule](http://pymc-devs.github.io/pymc3/notebooks/GP-introduction.html)
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* Much improved variational inference support:
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- [Add Operator Variational Inference (experimental).](http://pymc-devs.github.io/pymc3/notebooks/bayesian_neural_network_opvi-advi.html)
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- [Add Stein-Variational Gradient Descent as well as Amortized SVGD (experimental).](https://github.com/pymc-devs/pymc3/pull/2183)
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- [Add pm.Minibatch() to easily specify mini-batches.](http://pymc-devs.github.io/pymc3/notebooks/bayesian_neural_network_opvi-advi.html#Minibatch-ADVI)
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- Added various optimizers including ADAM.
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- Stopping criterion implemented via callbacks.
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* sample() defaults changed: tuning is enabled for the first 500 samples which are then discarded from the trace as burn-in.
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* MvNormal supports Cholesky Decomposition now for increased speed and numerical stability.
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* Many optimizations and speed-ups.
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* NUTS implementation now matches current Stan implementation.
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* [Add live-trace to see samples in real-time.](http://pymc-devs.github.io/pymc3/notebooks/live_sample_plots.html)
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* ADVI stopping criterion implemented.
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* Improved support for theano's floatX setting to enable GPU computations (work in progress).
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* MvNormal supports Cholesky Decomposition now for increased speed and numerical stability.
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* [Add Elliptical Slice Sampler.](http://pymc-devs.github.io/pymc3/notebooks/GP-slice-sampling.html)
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* Much improved variational inference support:
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- [Add Stein-Variational Gradient Descent as well as Amortized SVGD (experimental).](https://github.com/pymc-devs/pymc3/pull/2183)
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- [Add pm.generator() to easily specify mini-batches.](http://pymc-devs.github.io/pymc3/notebooks/bayesian_neural_network_opvi-advi.html#Minibatch-ADVI)
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- Added various optimizers including ADAM.
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* [Sampled posteriors can now be turned into priors for Bayesian updating with a new interpolated distribution.](https://github.com/pymc-devs/pymc3/pull/2163)
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* `Model` can now be inherited from and act as a base class for user specified models (see pymc3.models.linear).
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* GLM models do not need a left-hand variable anymore.
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* Add support for cholesky parametrizations for cov/corr matrices.
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* Refactored HMC and NUTS for better readability.
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* Add support for Python 3.6.

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