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Vikash K. Mansinghka.
Zinberg, Ben (Ben I.)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
2017-01-12T18:18:11Z
2017-01-12T18:18:11Z
2015
2015
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/106374
967346485
Thesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2015.
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Includes bibliographical references (page 50).
This thesis answers two questions: 1. How should probabilistic programming languages in- corporate Gaussian processes? and 2. Is it possible to write a probabilistic meta-program for Bayesian optimization, a probabilistic meta-algorithm that can combine regression frameworks such as Gaussian processes with a broad class of parameter estimation and optimization techniques? We answer both questions affirmatively, presenting both an implementation and informal semantics for Gaussian process models in probabilistic programming systems, and a probabilistic meta-program for Bayesian optimization. The meta-program exposes modularity common to a wide range of Bayesian optimization methods in a way that is not apparent from their usual treatment in statistics.
by Ben Zinberg.
M.Eng.
68 pages
eng
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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