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Event-based Design Abstractions for Agent HarnessesPAgE 20262026-06-15
Proposes an event-driven harness where a durable append-only event log is the single source of truth, with independent facets that fold over the log to derive…
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Incremental Computation for Efficient Programmable Inference in Probabilistic ProgramsPLDI 20262026-06-15
Compiles probabilistic programs to deterministic density functions, then applies a compositional incrementalization based on the incremental lambda calculus…
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A Design for Massively Parallel Gibbs Sampling on the GPU via Static and Dynamic(…)LAFI 20262026-01-11
Design enables massively parallel Gibbs sampling on GPUs by combining a factor-based intermediate representation for static graph-coloring to expose…
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Incremental Density Computation for Efficient Programmable InferenceLAFI 20262026-01-11
Presents a concrete workflow: compute trace types from the probabilistic program, use type-directed change types to represent insertions/removals/replacements…
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Sequential Monte Carlo Program Synthesis with Refinement ProposalsLAFI 20262026-01-11
Extends program synthesis search to include probabilistic programs and evaluates exact marginal likelihood using the PL change named pluck via lazy knowledge…
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Language-Model Probabilistic Programming for Improving Autoformalization via Cycle(…)LAFI 20262026-01-11
Proposes a GenLM-based decoder that steers a 70B LLM with two real-valued potentials: incremental type-checking via Lean by affixing dummy conclusions at safe…
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Probabilistic Programming with Vectorized Programmable InferencePOPL 20262026-01-11
GenJAX is a Python-embedded language and compiler that integrates JAX and exposes a vmap vectorization transformation to vectorize probabilistic traces…
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Stochastic Lazy Knowledge Compilation for Inference in Discrete Probabilistic ProgramsPLDI 20252025-06-16
Implements lazy knowledge compilation in a Julia tool called Pluck and combines it with sequential Monte Carlo that uses locally‑optimal proposals computed…
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Lazy Knowledge Compilation for Discrete PPLsLAFI 20252025-01-19
A new variant of knowledge compilation for discrete PPLs uses lazy knowledge compilation to delay compiling subexpressions until forced, and it compiles only…
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Probabilistic Programming with Programmable Variational InferencePLDI 20242024-06-24
Proposes a compositional, provably correct route to variational inference that turns user-written model, guide, and objective programs into unbiased gradient…
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GenSQL: A Probabilistic Programming System for Querying Generative Models of Database(…)PLDI 20242024-06-24
GenSQL is a SQL extension that runs Bayesian queries over generative table models, provides a unified model API (supports PPLs, GLMs, CTGAN, and a…
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MultiSPPL: extending SPPL with multivariate leaf nodesLAFI 20242024-01-14
Claims that extending SPPL’s SPN leaves with a SPINNY interface of five methods (sample, PDF, prop, condition, constrain) guarantees closure under conditioning…
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Reverse mode ADEV via YOLO: tangent estimators transpose to gradient estimatorsLAFI 20242024-01-14
Claims an automated pipeline that converts ADEV's forward-mode tangent estimators into a reverse-mode estimator by applying YOLO’s unzip and transposition…
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Effective Sequential Monte Carlo for Language Model Probabilistic ProgramsLAFI 20242024-01-14
LLaMPPL implements Sequential Monte Carlo for language-model probabilistic programs, using SMC with auto-batching of LLM calls and activation caching to run…
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Toward Probabilistic Coarse-to-Fine Program SynthesisLAFI 20242024-01-14
Synthesizes programs by starting with coarse probabilistic programs that use randomness as placeholders, then iteratively refines high-entropy expressions into…
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Probabilistic Programming with Stochastic ProbabilitiesPLDI 20232023-06-17
Claims a compiler and runtime that let expressive probabilistic programs use noisy density estimates while preserving sound inference by design. It introduces…
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What do posterior distributions of probabilistic programs look like?LAFI 20232023-01-15
Defines s-Hausdorff measures and proves any probabilistic program with piecewise analytic primitives denotes a measure that has a density w.r.t. some…
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Semantics of Probabilistic Program TracesLAFI 20232023-01-15
Provides a minimal core calculus that models trace-based PPLs and a categorical account in quasi-Borel spaces that treats traces as measurable objects. Defines…
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ADEV: Sound Automatic Differentiation of Expected Values of Probabilistic Progra...POPL 20232023-01-15
ADEV is a source-to-source extension of forward-mode AD that transforms a probabilistic program into another whose expected return equals the derivative of the…
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Towards Denotational Semantics of AD for Higher-Order, Recursive, ProbabilisticLAFI 20222022-01-16
Extends Lee et al. (2020) to a higher-order, recursive, probabilistic language and proves every program denotes omega-PAP functions and that AD yields correct…
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Probabilistic programming and meta-programming in ClojureClojure/conj 20182018-11-29
MIT Probabilistic Computing Project presents Clojure-based tools that turn models into editable code: Metaprob is a lightweight probabilistic meta-language…
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Probabilistic Programming for Augmented IntelligenceUncertainty in Computation 20162016-10-04
Probabilistic programming systems build two working tools: Picture, a Julia-embedded vision pipeline that combines a differentiable renderer, a…
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An Overview of Probabilistic ProgrammingStrange Loop 20152015-09-24
Three concrete systems are demonstrated with results: BayesDB exposes BQL and MML to let nonstatisticians run infer, estimate, and simulate queries over…
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