Composing Modeling and Inference Operations with Probabilistic Program Combinators — mentioned by eli_gottlieb

Wed, 19 Jun 2019 17:17:44 GMT

>As a side note, I've been doing more probabilistic programming with pymc3 recently, and it's pretty incredible how leaky the abstractions can be. I'm not saying there's a way to do better, just that at present there's a huge gap between the beautiful vision of "the inference button" and the current tools. Yeah, there's a pretty active debate in the probabilistic programming R&D community over whether it's a bug to sell people on "the inference button", then deliver a leaky abstraction, or a feature to offer richly programmable inference. Our lab has been working on some ideas to get "basic"…

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Composing Modeling and Inference Operations with Probabilistic Program Combinators — mentioned by eli_gottlieb