Uber Open Sources Pyro, a Deep Probabilistic Programming Language

Re:Uber Open Sources Pyro, a Deep Probabilistic Programming ... by thecolorblue on Monday November 06, 2017 @01:53PM (#15637835)

Is it a language or a python package? The example I am looking at looks like python to me.

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Re:Uber Open Sources Pyro, a Deep Probabilistic Programming ... by f00_ on Monday November 06, 2017 @03:15PM (#15638661)

I think classifying it as a framework wouldn't be too far off, gives you statistical distributions to work with as primitives (x is drawn from a Normal distribution instead of just being assigned to 5 for example).

And then it uses PyTorch to perform Variational Inference(?)

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Re:Uber Open Sources Pyro, a Deep Probabilistic Programming ... by vvkmnn on Monday November 06, 2017 @03:40PM (#15638820)

Statistical primitives backed by Pytorch (Pyro) and Tensorflow (Edward) is a great analogy. Thanks!

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