Search Results for author: Sam Staton

Found 7 papers, 1 papers with code

$ω$PAP Spaces: Reasoning Denotationally About Higher-Order, Recursive Probabilistic and Differentiable Programs

no code implementations21 Feb 2023 Mathieu Huot, Alexander K. Lew, Vikash K. Mansinghka, Sam Staton

We introduce a new setting, the category of $\omega$PAP spaces, for reasoning denotationally about expressive differentiable and probabilistic programming languages.

Probabilistic Programming

Compositional Semantics for Probabilistic Programs with Exact Conditioning

1 code implementation27 Jan 2021 Dario Stein, Sam Staton

We define a probabilistic programming language for Gaussian random variables with a first-class exact conditioning construct.

Probabilistic Programming

A Convenient Category for Higher-Order Probability Theory

no code implementations10 Jan 2017 Chris Heunen, Ohad Kammar, Sam Staton, Hongseok Yang

Higher-order probabilistic programming languages allow programmers to write sophisticated models in machine learning and statistics in a succinct and structured way, but step outside the standard measure-theoretic formalization of probability theory.

Probabilistic Programming

Semantics for probabilistic programming: higher-order functions, continuous distributions, and soft constraints

no code implementations19 Jan 2016 Sam Staton, Hongseok Yang, Chris Heunen, Ohad Kammar, Frank Wood

We study the semantic foundation of expressive probabilistic programming languages, that support higher-order functions, continuous distributions, and soft constraints (such as Anglican, Church, and Venture).

Probabilistic Programming

Relating coalgebraic notions of bisimulation

no code implementations21 Jan 2011 Sam Staton

The theory of coalgebras, for an endofunctor on a category, has been proposed as a general theory of transition systems.

Logic in Computer Science F.3.2, G.2.m

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