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Augur: a Modeling Language for Data-Parallel Probabilistic Inference

Jean-Baptiste Tristan, Daniel Huang, Joseph Tassarotti, Adam Pocock, Stephen J. Green, Guy L. Steele Jr
Oracle Labs
arXiv:1312.3613 [stat.ML], (12 Dec 2013)

@article{2013arXiv1312.3613T,

   author={Tristan}, J.-B. and {Huang}, D. and {Tassarotti}, J. and {Pocock}, A. and {Green}, S.~J. and {Steele}, Jr, G.~L.},

   title={"{Augur: a Modeling Language for Data-Parallel Probabilistic Inference}"},

   journal={ArXiv e-prints},

   archivePrefix={"arXiv"},

   eprint={1312.3613},

   primaryClass={"stat.ML"},

   keywords={Statistics – Machine Learning, Computer Science – Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science – Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing, Computer Science – Programming Languages},

   year={2013},

   month={dec},

   adsurl={http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013arXiv1312.3613T},

   adsnote={Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System}

}

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It is time-consuming and error-prone to implement inference procedures for each new probabilistic model. Probabilistic programming addresses this problem by allowing a user to specify the model and having a compiler automatically generate an inference procedure for it. For this approach to be practical, it is important to generate inference code that has reasonable performance. In this paper, we present a probabilistic programming language and compiler for Bayesian networks designed to make effective use of data-parallel architectures such as GPUs. Our language is fully integrated within the Scala programming language and benefits from tools such as IDE support, type-checking, and code completion. We show that the compiler can generate data-parallel inference code scalable to thousands of GPU cores by making use of the conditional independence relationships in the Bayesian network.
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