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arXiv:1608.05263 (cs)
[Submitted on 18 Aug 2016 (v1), last revised 30 Nov 2016 (this version, v2)]

Title:Design and Implementation of Probabilistic Programming Language Anglican

Authors:David Tolpin, Jan Willem van de Meent, Hongseok Yang, Frank Wood
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Abstract:Anglican is a probabilistic programming system designed to interoperate with Clojure and other JVM languages. We introduce the programming language Anglican, outline our design choices, and discuss in depth the implementation of the Anglican language and runtime, including macro-based compilation, extended CPS-based evaluation model, and functional representations for probabilistic paradigms, such as a distribution, a random process, and an inference algorithm.
We show that a probabilistic functional language can be implemented efficiently and integrated tightly with a conventional functional language with only moderate computational overhead. We also demonstrate how advanced probabilistic modeling concepts are mapped naturally to the functional foundation.
Comments: IFL 2016 submission, 12 pages, 2 figures
Subjects: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
Cite as: arXiv:1608.05263 [cs.PL]
  (or arXiv:1608.05263v2 [cs.PL] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1608.05263

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From: David Tolpin [view email]
[v1] Thu, 18 Aug 2016 14:00:35 UTC (29 KB)
[v2] Wed, 30 Nov 2016 11:54:56 UTC (122 KB)
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