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Refactor KL divergence distance for Simulator

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#5,749 opened on May 6, 2022

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This was actually never refactored for the new Simulator / V4: https://github.com/pymc-devs/pymc/blob/c76b9b9e74ee6f13993f255dd09d9290b882d6ab/pymc/distributions/simulator.py#L276-L293

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Inspect the referenced code block at pymc/distributions/simulator.py lines 276-293 and understand the new Simulator/V4 architecture to refactor the KL divergence distance accordingly.
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python
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backend
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Refactor
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Pythonpymc
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