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Example: BayesFlow Likelihood as serialized JAX function

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Description

BayesFlow uses Keras throughout, which has become backend-agnostic in recent years.

Two key aspects for HSSM:

- Keras supports serialization of models (save/load)
- We should be able to use a Keras model as a simple JAX function finally

To close this issue, produce a simple example of inter-operability between BayesFlow and HSSM.

1. Use `ssm-simulators` to instantiate a basic DDM simulators
2. Train a likelihood networks via BayesFlow
3. Save the model
4. Load this model and turn it into a differentiable likelihood that works with the HSSM low-level interface
5. Translate the use case to the high-level interface

The output here should be one or two Jupyter notebooks that can be part of the docs as initial examples.

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  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by reviewing the existing HSSM documentation and the low-level and high-level interfaces, then examine how ssm-simulators and BayesFlow are used together. Build one or two Jupyter notebooks covering DDM simulation, likelihood-network training, model save/load, differentiable JAX conversion, and both interfaces. Done means the notebooks run as documentation examples and demonstrate the complete interoperability workflow.

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Assessment

Tech stack
jupyter-notebook, keras, python
Domain
documentation, machine-learning
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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