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 **Difficulty:** Medium.
 
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 ## Automated Parameter Tuning
 
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 **Difficulty:** Medium to Hard, depending on the chosen tasks.
 
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 ## Automated Families for Variational Inference and MCMC 
 
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 **Difficulty:** Medium to Hard, depending on the chosen tasks.
 
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 ## Library of Difficult Sampling Problems 
 
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 **Difficulty:** Easy to Medium, depending on the chosen tasks.
 
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+# [Contributor Guidance](@id guidance)
+
+Potential contributors are encouraged to provide a short CV or resume.
+
+After selecting one of the projects listed on this page, in your application please also include: 
+
+- A list of goals for each week of your participation in the program. 
+
+- How our team can best support you during your Google Summer of Code experience.  
+
+Participants are also allowed to propose their own modifications to projects listed on this page. 
+If you plan to moderately deviate from the project proposals listed here, please also 
+describe your plan in the application and contact the listed mentors or organization 
+administrators beforehand.
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