Edward2 vs pyro

Hi,

I’m a new user to Edward(2), coming from Pytorch and Pyro and I wanted to see what Edward2 could bring. I noticed that the edward2 paper came out and the tracing mechanism seems pretty identical to pyro’s tracing mechanism so I had a few questions:

  • what are the differences and tradeoffs?
  • why did you guys not cite the Pyro paper or mention the tool by name at all in your paper? is it just politics or something else?
  • are there differences in the future plans for each language?

Regards,