Initial AbstractMCMC.step should not sample
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should not perform any sampling of the parameters.
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Generally speaking, the first
AbstractMCMC.stepshould just construct the initial transition and state, not actually perform any sampling. If it performs sampling in the initial step, it becomes increasingly difficult to test that arguments such asinitial_paramsandinitial_stateare properly respected (since we can't just compare the resultinginitial_paramswith the ones produced by the first step). Moreover, it can hide certain behaviors from the user since a traceplot will show the "starting value" as something different than what they set.This PR just makes the initial
AbstractMCMC.stepdo exactly this.Should be a quick merge. @devmotion @yebai @xukai92