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Thursday 02 June 2016, 09:30-10:30
Turing: Rejuvenating Probabilistic Programming in Julia
- đ¤ Speaker: Hong Ge (University of Cambridge)
- đ Date & Time: Thursday 02 June 2016, 09:30 - 10:30
- đ Venue: Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438
Abstract
In this talk, I will present a probabilistic programming system (PPL) called Turing. The implementation of Turing is based on Julia, a fast and modern programming language for technical computing. Novel aspects of this system include 1) the use of coroutines for scalable implementation of existing general-purpose inference algorithms, and 2) new syntax features that improve statistical efficiency of general-purpose inference engines. I will discuss some lessons we have learnt so far, on both PPL design and novel Monte Carlo methods.
More concretely, I will first review a (classical) result that some widely used importance sampling methods (e.g. IS, PMC , SMC) are still valid when exact importance weights are replaced with non-negative unbiased Monte Carlo estimates or pseudo marginals. This result allow us to export the celebrated pseudo-marginal method from the MCMC framework to importance sampling methods. Then, following this generic result, we develop a pseudo-marginal particle filtering (PM-PF) method and apply it to PPL inference. Some experiments show the PM-PF method is consistently more accurate than similar algorithms: particle filtering, particle Gibbs.
Series This talk is part of the Machine Learning @ CUED series.
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