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I am still voting for acceptance of this paper. This paper is about a software component, called Bayesian Layers, that allows for consistent creation of deep layers that are associated with some form of uncertainty or stochasticity. The paper outlines the design philosophy and principles, shows many examples and concludes with new demonstrations of Bayesian neural network applications. I find that this work is on a significant topic, since software for Bayesian (deep) learning models significantly lacks behind. Integration and drop-in replacement with traditional architectures seems like the right avenue to pursue, and is a strong motivation point for this approach. I also think that this work is sufficiently original, related to what one could expect form a software component.

py-irt is a Python library for fitting Bayesian Item Response Theory (IRT) models. py-irt estimates latent traits of subjects and items, making it appropriate for use in IRT tasks as well as ideal-point models. py-irt is built on top of the Pyro and PyTorch frameworks and uses GPU-accelerated training to scale to large data sets. Code, documentation, and examples can be found at https://github.com/nd-ball/py-irt. py-irt can be installed from the GitHub page or the Python Package Index (PyPI).

We introduce TyXe, a Bayesian neural network library built on top of Pytorch and Pyro. Our leading design principle is to cleanly separate architecture, prior, inference and likelihood specification, allowing for a flexible workflow where users can quickly iterate over combinations of these components. In contrast to existing packages TyXe does not implement any layer classes, and instead relies on architectures defined in generic Pytorch code. TyXe then provides modular choices for canonical priors, variational guides, inference techniques, and layer selections for a Bayesian treatment of the specified architecture. Sampling tricks for variance reduction, such as local reparameterization or flipout, are implemented as effect handlers, which can be applied independently of other specifications. We showcase the ease of use of TyXe to explore Bayesian versions of popular models from various libraries: toy regression with a pure Pytorch neural network; large-scale image classification with torchvision ResNets; graph neural networks based on DGL; and Neural Radiance Fields built on top of Pytorch3D. Finally, we provide convenient abstractions for variational continual learning. In all cases the change from a deterministic to a Bayesian neural network comes with minimal modifications to existing code, offering a broad range of researchers and practitioners alike practical access to uncertainty estimation techniques. The library is available at https://github.com/TyXe-BDL/TyXe.

Python Remote Objects AKA Pyro is a python library that enables you to build applications in which objects can talk to each other over the network, with minimal programming effort. You can just use normal Python method calls, with almost every possible parameter and return value type, and Pyro takes care of locating the right object on the right computer to execute the method. It also provides a set of important features that lets you to build distributed applications rapidly and effortlessly. Siconos is an open-source scientific software package for the modeling and simulation of nonsmooth dynamical systems in C and Python. Do you like this list of best python libraries for Robotics? If yes, Please share this post with the ones who are working or studying robotics as well as with your friends and others. And if you're an Android user, please check out INSANE APP

We elaborate on using importance sampling for causal reasoning, in particular for counterfactual inference. We show how this can be implemented natively in probabilistic programming. By considering the structure of the counterfactual query, one can significantly optimise the inference process. We also consider design choices to enable further optimisations. We introduce MultiVerse, a probabilistic programming prototype engine for approximate causal reasoning. We provide experimental results and compare with Pyro, an existing probabilistic programming framework with some of causal reasoning tools.

Uber's services require real-world coordination between a wide range of customers, including driver-partners, riders, restaurants, and eaters. Accurately forecasting things like rider demand and ETAs enables this coordination, which makes our services work as seamlessly as possible. In an effort to constantly optimize our operations, serve our customers, and train our systems to perform better and better, we leverage machine learning (ML). In addition, we make many of our ML tools open source, sharing them with the community to advance the state of the art. In this spirit, members of our Seattle Engineering team shared their work at an April 2019 meetup on ML and AI at Uber.

Pyro is a probabilistic programming language built on Python as a platform for developing advanced probabilistic models in AI research. To scale to large datasets and high-dimensional models, Pyro uses stochastic variational inference algorithms and probability distributions built on top of PyTorch, a modern GPU-accelerated deep learning framework. To accommodate complex or model-specific algorithmic behavior, Pyro leverages Poutine, a library of composable building blocks for modifying the behavior of probabilistic programs.

Deep probabilistic programming combines deep neural networks (for automatic hierarchical representation learning) with probabilistic models (for principled handling of uncertainty). Unfortunately, it is difficult to write deep probabilistic models, because existing programming frameworks lack concise, high-level, and clean ways to express them. To ease this task, we extend Stan, a popular high-level probabilistic programming language, to use deep neural networks written in PyTorch. Training deep probabilistic models works best with variational inference, so we also extend Stan for that. We implement these extensions by translating Stan programs to Pyro. Our translation clarifies the relationship between different families of probabilistic programming languages. Overall, our paper is a step towards making deep probabilistic programming easier.

Pyro is a universal probabilistic programming language (PPL) written in Python and supported by PyTorch on the backend. Pyro enables flexible and expressive deep probabilistic modeling, unifying the best of modern deep learning and Bayesian modeling. It was designed with these key principles: Universal: Pyro can represent any computable probability distribution. Minimal: Pyro is implemented with a small core of powerful, composable abstractions. Flexible: Pyro aims for automation when you want it, control when you need it.