[DISCUSSION] Probabilistic Programming Languages for LFI

[EiffL]

Probabilistic Programming Languages for Large Scale LFI

Frameworks like Pyro and TensorFlow Probability are powerful tools, but do they scale to the problems faced by modern particle physics and cosmology?

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Discussion Items

• What are the options that have been deployed on large scale? I guess PPX and pyprob
• What are the requirements on a framework for LFI on supercomputers?

[bhorowitz]

Do any of the sampling algorithms in TensorFlow probability "work"? They always seem really finicky for any of the even very simple models I've tried...