Multiprocessing Tutorial Example Not Working
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Description
General information:
- emcee version: 3.0.2
- platform: python, jupyter notebook
- installation method (pip/conda/source/other?): pip
Problem description:
Expected behavior: That the multiprocessing example using "pool" would work in a jupyter notebook for the example shown in the multiprocessing example.
Actual behavior: Using "pool" in the sampler does not converge and continues to run indefinitely. However, the example in the tutorial shows that it should finish running and run faster than the serial code.
What have you tried so far?: Modified the code, tried different notebooks, tried to use pool.close()
Minimal example:
from multiprocessing import Pool
with Pool() as pool:
sampler = emcee.EnsembleSampler(nwalkers, ndim, log_prob, pool=pool)
start = time.time()
sampler.run_mcmc(initial, nsteps, progress=True)
end = time.time()
multi_time = end - start
print("Multiprocessing took {0:.1f} seconds".format(multi_time))
print("{0:.1f} times faster than serial".format(serial_time / multi_time))
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Research direction
Start by reproducing the multiprocessing tutorial's minimal example in a Jupyter notebook with emcee 3.0.2 and compare it with the serial run. Investigate why the sampler does not finish when given a multiprocessing.Pool; the work is done when the documented example completes and reports its runtime.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- jupyter-notebook, python
- Domain
- documentation
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 38/100