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Apr, 2014
Venture: 一个具有可编程推理的高阶概率编程平台
Venture: a higher-order probabilistic programming platform with programmable inference
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Vikash Mansinghka, Daniel Selsam, Yura Perov
TL;DR
Venture是一种交互式虚拟机,支持概率编程,并提供定制推理策略的组成语言,可实现泊松图模型等概率图形模型。它还通过随机生成算法优化了代码的执行历史,可以用于生成式推理策略,如元卡洛马尔可夫链蒙特卡罗和平均场变分推理技术。
Abstract
We describe Venture, an interactive
virtual machine
for
probabilistic programming
that aims to be sufficiently expressive, extensible, and efficient for general-purpose use. Like Church, probabilistic models and
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