Human factors in model interpretability: Industry practices, challenges, and needs

SR Hong, J Hullman, E Bertini - Proceedings of the ACM on Human …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
As the use of machine learning (ML) models in product development and data-driven
decision-making processes became pervasive in many domains, people's focus on building …

Bayesian synthesis of probabilistic programs for automatic data modeling

FA Saad, MF Cusumano-Towner… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
We present new techniques for automatically constructing probabilistic programs for data
analysis, interpretation, and prediction. These techniques work with probabilistic domain …

SPPL: probabilistic programming with fast exact symbolic inference

FA Saad, MC Rinard, VK Mansinghka - Proceedings of the 42nd acm …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
We present the Sum-Product Probabilistic Language (SPPL), a new probabilistic
programming language that automatically delivers exact solutions to a broad range of …

Affine monads and lazy structures for Bayesian programming

S Dash, Y Kaddar, H Paquet, S Staton - Proceedings of the ACM on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
We show that streams and lazy data structures are a natural idiom for programming with
infinite-dimensional Bayesian methods such as Poisson processes, Gaussian processes …

Gensql: a probabilistic programming system for querying generative models of database tables

M Huot, M Ghavami, AK Lew, U Schaechtle… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
This article presents GenSQL, a probabilistic programming system for querying probabilistic
generative models of database tables. By augmenting SQL with only a few key primitives for …

Hierarchical infinite relational model

FA Saad, VK Mansinghka - Uncertainty in Artificial …, 2021 - proceedings.mlr.press
This paper describes the hierarchical infinite relational model (HIRM), a new probabilistic
generative model for noisy, sparse, and heterogeneous relational data. Given a set of …

Temporally-reweighted Chinese restaurant process mixtures for clustering, imputing, and forecasting multivariate time series

F Saad, V Mansinghka - International Conference on …, 2018 - proceedings.mlr.press
This article proposes a Bayesian nonparametric method for forecasting, imputation, and
clustering in sparsely observed, multivariate time series data. The method is appropriate for …

[PDF][PDF] Usability of Probabilistic Programming Languages.

AF Blackwell, L Church, M Erwig, J Geddes, A Gordon… - PPIG, 2019 - cl.cam.ac.uk
This discussion paper presents a conversation between researchers having active interests
in the usability of probabilistic programming languages (PPLs), but coming from a wide …

Bayesian Independence Test with Mixed-type Variables

A Benavoli, C de Campos - 2021 IEEE 8th International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A fundamental task in AI is to assess (in) dependence between mixed-type variables (text,
image, sound). We propose a Bayesian kernelised correlation test of (in) dependence using …

Scalable Structure Learning, Inference, and Analysis with Probabilistic Programs

FAK Saad - 2022 - dspace.mit.edu
How can we automate and scale up the processes of learning accurate probabilistic models
of complex data and obtaining principled solutions to probabilistic inference and analysis …