Docs link: https://www.pymc.io/projects/examples/en/latest/variational_inference/pathfinder.html The notebook is not using the parameters `mu` or `tau`. It creates a `theta1` that is not used anywhere. However, I am not sure pathfinder works with this model, so it may be better to use another example: https://gist.github.com/ricardoV94/eafd20ac47d63525253b0a8adf5e5d76 Brought up in https://github.com/pymc-devs/pymc-experimental/pull/238