Probabilistic programming in anglican

David Tolpin, Jan Willem van de Meent, Frank Wood

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Abstract

Anglican is a probabilistic programming system designed to interoperate with Clojure and other JVM languages. We describe the implementation of Anglican and illustrate how its design facilitates both explorative and industrial use of probabilistic programming.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMachine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases - European Conference, ECML PKDD 2015, Proceedings
EditorsBianca Zadrozny, Francesco Bonchi, Bianca Zadrozny, Jaime Cardoso, Francesco Bonchi, Ricard Gavalda, Francesco Bonchi, Myra Spiliopoulou, Ricard Gavalda, Dino Pedreschi, Jaime Cardoso, Myra Spiliopoulou, Jaime Cardoso, Dino Pedreschi, Francesco Bonchi, Albert Bifet, Dino Pedreschi, Albert Bifet, Bianca Zadrozny, Myra Spiliopoulou, Dino Pedreschi, Myra Spiliopoulou, Michael May, Michael May, Albert Bifet, Ricard Gavalda, Albert Bifet, Michael May, Bianca Zadrozny, Michael May, Jaime Cardoso, Ricard Gavalda
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages308-311
Number of pages4
ISBN (Print)9783319234601, 9783319234601, 9783319234601, 9783319234601
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2015
Externally publishedYes
EventEuropean Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2015 - Porto, Portugal
Duration: 7 Sep 201511 Sep 2015

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9286
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

ConferenceEuropean Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2015
Country/TerritoryPortugal
CityPorto
Period7/09/1511/09/15

Keywords

  • Probabilistic programming

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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