Deprecate several features in Edward, including model wrappers and edward.stats #344
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This pull request proposes to deprecate the following:
PythonModel
,PyMC3Model
, andStanModel
—in favor of the native language;edward.stats
module—in favor of random variables inedward.models
;MFVI
—in favor ofKLqp
;placeholder
—in favor of TensorFlow'splaceholder
.In addition, SciPy is now an optional rather than necessary dependency.
The plan is to continue support for the above for one or two more versions, but with the idea in mind to remove them in some future release.
related to #341; and whether or not to continue work in #163; #164; #50