Pyro: The Universal, Probablistic Programming Language

Re:Pyro: The Universal, Probablistic Programming Language by mccoyb on Friday July 28, 2023 @02:20PM (#36911017)

I think you’re overgeneralizing in your control flow discussion.

I also don’t understand your f example with (x, y, noise) if you fix x and the return value, you still have two unknowns with 1 equation. How is that easy to solve?

Unless you’re considering using parametric inverses to represent the solution — but you didn’t mention this so I assume you didn’t mean this.

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Re:Pyro: The Universal, Probablistic Programming Language by 6gvONxR4sf7o on Friday July 28, 2023 @02:53PM (#36911487)

I was being underspecific to be concise, but in pyro, I'd mean something like this:

    def f(x, y):
      return pyro.sample(
        "z",
        dist.Normal(x+y, 1),
        obs=5
      )

    model = pyro.condition(f, x=3)

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