Edward: A library for probabilistic modeling, inference, and criticism — HN submission

Thu, 08 Dec 2016 23:22:05 GMT

Edward: A library for probabilistic modeling, inference, and criticism

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Edward: A library for probabilistic modeling, inference, and criticism — mentioned by proditus

Fri, 04 Nov 2016 22:43:28 GMT

great questions. 1. you touch upon the right strengths of TF; that was certainly one consideration. edward is designed to address two goals that complement stan. the first is to be a platform for inference research: as such, edward is primarily a tool for machine learning researchers. the second is to support a wider class of models than stan (at the cost of not offering a "works out of the box" solution). our recent whitepaper explains these goals in a bit more detail: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1610.09787.pdf 2) no immediate plans. but we have HMC and are looking for volunteers :) 3) same answer…

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Edward: A library for probabilistic modeling, inference, and criticism — HN submission

Edward: A library for probabilistic modeling, inference, and criticism — mentioned by proditus