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Initial AbstractMCMC.step should not sample #366

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Generally speaking, the first AbstractMCMC.step should 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 as initial_params and initial_state are properly respected (since we can't just compare the resulting initial_params with 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.step do exactly this.

Should be a quick merge. @devmotion @yebai @xukai92

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LGTM!

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mhauru commented Dec 10, 2024

Is this good to merge? Except that we should also bump a breaking version number.

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I think there are still some tests that need to be updated, but otherwise, yeah it should be good:)

@torfjelde torfjelde merged commit 32d0446 into master Jan 13, 2025
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Accidentally merged this 🤦 Will re-open

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