Add optional support for McBackend-based trace backends #6501
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This PR implements optional support for McBackend based trace backends.
This builds on top of the refactorings from #6475 that decoupled the
pm.sampling
module fromBaseTrace
.I split the addition of McBackend support into two commits, the first of which makes the necessary code changes without actually adding McBackend as a dependency for the test environments just to confirm that the optional importing works.
The
mcbackend.RunMeta
object that is created by themake_runmeta
function contains several important metadata about the current model variables. This includes information such as whether a variable is deterministic or not. Related issues:Checklist
New features
pm.sample(trace=...)
now acceptsmcbackend.Backend
instances.Bugfixes
Statsbijection.rmap
can now take incomplete input dicts.Maintenance