Support valid AMICI noise distributions that are invalid in PEtab (#1157

)

Co-authored-by: Daniel Weindl <dweindl@users.noreply.github.com>

pypesto/petab/importer.py

@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@
     import amici.petab_objective
     import petab
     from petab.C import PREEQUILIBRATION_CONDITION_ID, SIMULATION_CONDITION_ID
+    from petab.models import MODEL_TYPE_SBML
 except ImportError:
     pass
 
@@ -128,7 +129,8 @@ def __init__(
 
         self.validate_inner_options()
 
-        if validate_petab:
+        self.validate_petab = validate_petab
+        if self.validate_petab:
             if petab.lint_problem(petab_problem):
                 raise ValueError("Invalid PEtab problem.")
         if self._hierarchical and validate_petab_hierarchical:
@@ -280,7 +282,13 @@ def create_model(
             logger.info(
                 f"Compiling amici model to folder " f"{self.output_folder}."
             )
-            self.compile_model(**kwargs)
+            if self.petab_problem.model.type_id == MODEL_TYPE_SBML:
+                self.compile_model(
+                    validate=self.validate_petab,
+                    **kwargs,
+                )
+            else:
+                self.compile_model(**kwargs)
         else:
             logger.debug(
                 f"Using existing amici model in folder "