Sun 16 Jan 2022 10:53 - 11:26 at LAFI - Invited talks Chair(s): Andrew D. Gordon

Probabilistic programming provides a language to specify complex statistical models. Some important models from nonparametric statistics are naturally expressed as programs which use some form of local state. A stochastic process can then be viewed as a stateful object, which can be sampled from, but also keeps track of its previous call history. A related approach uses stochastic memoization. These features are challenging to reason about semantically. I will discuss this, in the context of models of linear logic and game semantics.

Sun 16 Jan

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10:20 - 12:00
Invited talksLAFI at LAFI
Chair(s): Andrew D. Gordon Microsoft Research and University of Edinburgh
10:20
33m
Talk
Probabilistic and Differentiable Programming in Scientific SimulatorsRemote
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Atılım Güneş Baydin Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford
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10:53
33m
Talk
Stateful processes in probabilistic programming Remote
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Hugo Paquet University of Cambridge
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11:26
33m
Talk
Programming Languages for Automatic Differentiation: What Now?Remote
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