1 code implementation • 22 Oct 2020 • Maria I. Gorinova, Andrew D. Gordon, Charles Sutton, Matthijs Vákár
The resulting program can be seen as a hybrid inference algorithm on the original program, where continuous parameters can be drawn using efficient gradient-based inference methods, while the discrete parameters are inferred using variable elimination.
no code implementations • 21 Aug 2020 • Ryan Bernstein, Matthijs Vákár, Jeannette Wing
Probabilistic programming is perfectly suited to reliable and transparent data science, as it allows the user to specify their models in a high-level language without worrying about the complexities of how to fit the models.