Browsing MIT Open Access Articles by Author "Saad, Feras A"
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Bayesian synthesis of probabilistic programs for automatic data modeling
Saad, Feras A; Cusumano-Towner, Marco F; Schaechtle, Ulrich; Rinard, Martin C; Mansinghka, Vikash K (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2019)<jats:p>We present new techniques for automatically constructing probabilistic programs for data analysis, interpretation, and prediction. These techniques work with probabilistic domain-specific data modeling languages ... -
Optimal approximate sampling from discrete probability distributions
Saad, Feras A; Freer, Cameron E; Rinard, Martin C; Mansinghka, Vikash K (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2020)© 2020 Copyright held by the owner/author(s). This paper addresses a fundamental problem in random variate generation: given access to a random source that emits a stream of independent fair bits, what is the most accurate ... -
SPPL: probabilistic programming with fast exact symbolic inference
Saad, Feras A; Rinard, Martin C; Mansinghka, Vikash K (ACM, 2021)