1 code implementation • 13 Jul 2023 • Feras A. Saad, Brian J. Patton, Matthew D. Hoffman, Rif A. Saurous, Vikash K. Mansinghka
This paper presents a new approach to automatically discovering accurate models of complex time series data.
no code implementations • 24 Feb 2022 • Feras A. Saad, Marco Cusumano-Towner, Vikash K. Mansinghka
Estimating information-theoretic quantities such as entropy and mutual information is central to many problems in statistics and machine learning, but challenging in high dimensions.
1 code implementation • 16 Aug 2021 • Feras A. Saad, Vikash K. Mansinghka
This paper describes the hierarchical infinite relational model (HIRM), a new probabilistic generative model for noisy, sparse, and heterogeneous relational data.
1 code implementation • 7 Oct 2020 • Feras A. Saad, Martin C. Rinard, Vikash K. Mansinghka
We present the Sum-Product Probabilistic Language (SPPL), a new probabilistic programming language that automatically delivers exact solutions to a broad range of probabilistic inference queries.
no code implementations • 14 Jul 2019 • Feras A. Saad, Marco F. Cusumano-Towner, Ulrich Schaechtle, Martin C. Rinard, Vikash K. Mansinghka
These techniques work with probabilistic domain-specific data modeling languages that capture key properties of a broad class of data generating processes, using Bayesian inference to synthesize probabilistic programs in these modeling languages given observed data.
no code implementations • 26 Feb 2019 • Feras A. Saad, Cameron E. Freer, Nathanael L. Ackerman, Vikash K. Mansinghka
Unlike most existing test statistics, the proposed test statistic is distribution-free and its exact (non-asymptotic) sampling distribution is known in closed form.
1 code implementation • 18 Oct 2017 • Feras A. Saad, Vikash K. Mansinghka
We apply the technique to challenging forecasting and imputation tasks using seasonal flu data from the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention, demonstrating superior forecasting accuracy and competitive imputation accuracy as compared to multiple widely used baselines.