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Church (programming language)

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Church refers to both a family of LISP-like probabilistic programming language[1] for specifying arbitrarily probabilistic programs, as well as a set of algorithms for performing probabilistic inference in the generative models those programs define.[2] Church was originally developed at MIT, primarily in the computational cognitive science group, run by Joshua Tenenbaum.[3] Several different inference algorithms and concrete languages are in existence, including Bher, MIT-Church, Cosh, and Venture.

References

  1. ^ "Probabilistic Programming wiki".
  2. ^ "MIT Church wiki". csail.mit.edu.
  3. ^ Goodman, Noah; Mansinghka, Vikash; Roy, Daniel; Bonawitz, Keith; Tenenbaum, Joshua (2008). "Church: a language for generative models". Proc. Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence.
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