Beta release

Major update, a lot of code base rewritten.

Most important changes:

• revised syntax for model definition (esp. naming)
• scheduler-independent parallelization interface (currently supports native & ipyparallel)
• methods can now be run iteratively
• persistence to .npy files
• Bayesian optimization as a separate method
• sampling in BOLFI
• MCMC sampling using the No-U-Turn-Sampler (NUTS)
• Result object for BOLFI
• virtual vectorization of external operations

See the updated notebooks and documentation for examples and details.

PyPI release

• Clean up requirements
• Set graphviz and unqlite optional
• PyPI release (pip install elfi)

Major update

Change Log:

• The inference problem is now contained in an Inference Task object.
• SMC-ABC has been reimplemented.
• Results from inference are now contained in a Result object.
• Integrated basic visualization.
• Added a notebook demonstrating usage with external simulators and operations.
• Lot's of refactoring and other minor changes.

Review release

Cleaning up the master repo