Infer.NET user guide

Infer.NET development

Design

• Compiler overview
  • Compiler-generated variable names
  • Transform tutorial
  • Compiler transforms
• Infer.NET inference API design
• Gibbs sampling design
• Math library
• Distribution design
• Graph library
• Cursor arrays
• Distributed inference
• Gate computations
• Performance lessons learned
• String inference
• Comparison to other PP frameworks

Issues

• Indexing arrays by observed arrays - issues
• Usability issues - issues which impact the usability of Infer.NET
• Efficiency

Proposals

• Distributed inference API
• Estimating computational cost
• Polymorphic random variables