Hi there,
I have been working on a move that is intended to provide fast burn-in for high-dimensional distributions and to perform well for multimodal distributions: the differential-independence mixture ensemble (DIME) MCMC. See here for an example:
https://github.com/gboehl/emcwrap#tutorialIt seems to me that this goes well with the emcee vision, so I would be more than happy to contribute to this project.
Formally, the method is proposed here:
https://gregorboehl.com/live/dime_mcmc_boehl.pdfFYI, econ is very slow in terms of publishing. It is normal to wait a couple of years before something is out there. I know this sounds odd to people in other fields...
I also create a PR:
https://github.com/dfm/emcee/pull/442I am happy to generating some documentation, e.g. by adding the above tutorial to the emcee documentation. If this gets merged, I would remove the tutorial at emcwrap.
Looking forward to your thoughts!
Gregor