# Stan the Gathering May 6th

## Automatic Guide Generation for Stan via NumPyro

Guillaume Baudart and Louis Mandel made some experiments of running the autoguides of NumPyro on the PosteriorDB models using the Stan to NumPyro compiler:
- paper: https://github.com/deepppl/evaluation-autoguide/blob/main/stan-numpyro-autoguides.pdf
- code: https://github.com/deepppl/evaluation-autoguide

Feedback welcome!

## cmdstanr supports diagnose method now

Jonah and Mitzi reviewed and merged Rok's PR adding CmdStan's diagnose method (comparing Stan's gradients to finite diffs) to CmdStanR: https://github.com/stan-dev/cmdstanr/pull/485