Installation error with 1.2.4

[jingsliu]

Hi I got the following error importing the package after successful installation (pip --user on Linux):

import edward as ed
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "xxx/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/edward/init.py", line 6, in
from edward import inferences
File "xxx/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/edward/inferences/init.py", line 11, in
from edward.inferences.laplace import *
File "xxx/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/edward/inferences/laplace.py", line 9, in
from edward.models import
ImportError: cannot import name MultivariateNormalCholesky

Could you please help check?
Also it'll be great if you can provide url of the binaries of previous versions. Thanks!

[dustinvtran]

Can you provide your TensorFlow version? Most likely this means you need to update TensorFlow. Also see http://edwardlib.org/troubleshooting.

[jingsliu]

It's version 1.0.0 so I thought it was fine.

[dustinvtran]

Can you try the following line?

from tensorflow.contrib.distributions import MultivariateNormalCholesky

This should be supported in r1.0.

If you're using a master branch and not a stable release of TensorFlow, this isn't supported. (TensorFlow's distribution API changed, which we haven't officially supported yet (#452).)

[jingsliu]

Thanks and that's it.
Unfortunately I'm working with the tensorflow installed by the system administrator... Any idea if an older version of tensorflow might work, or how soon would you expect this being supported?

[dustinvtran]

All TensorFlow version releases after 1.0.0a0 are supported.

how soon would you expect this being supported?

We don't plan to support the newest API changes in TensorFlow's master branch until it makes it into a stable release.

Hope that helps. Closing issue; also see #452 for more details.

[bhomass]

I installed edward using conda and got version and got version 1.2.4. It automatically included tensorflow version 1.5.0. I am getting this ImportError: cannot import name 'MultivariateNormalCholesky' still, even for this version. What should I do to fix?

[dustinvtran]

Edward 1.2.4 is definitely out of date; I also don't recall what TF version it's compatible with. Maybe update to latest Edward? Also, can you make a new Github issue if you're still having difficulties?