Re:Infer: Inference and Machine Learning in Clojure
by stompchicken on Thursday August 19, 2010 @01:00PM
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It's probably worth pointing out that this project has no relation to Infer.NET (I don't think so, anyway), another machine learning library from Microsoft Research and written in F#.
Re:Infer: Inference and Machine Learning in Clojure
by dododo on Thursday August 19, 2010 @02:01PM
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i used Infer.NET: buggy as anything, horrible syntax.
it's for doing inference in graphical models using EP; these are the same techniques as those MS use for trueskill.
this (Infer) looks like it's for a different kind of inference: classification (essentially linear, but with a few bells and whistles).
(not graphical models right now; probabilities.clj is very much lacking.)
Re:Infer: Inference and Machine Learning in Clojure
by mark_l_watson on Thursday August 19, 2010 @07:59PM
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It looks interesting - I browsed a few of the tests. That said, unless a project has at least several pages of how to get started docs with a few real examples, I usually pass on it.
this (Infer) looks like it's for a different kind of inference: classification (essentially linear, but with a few bells and whistles).
(not graphical models right now; probabilities.clj is very much lacking.)
BTW, Infer.NET is written in C#, but there is an F# wrapper.