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The Turing Language

Bayesian inference with probabilistic programming

Turing.jl is a general-purpose probabilistic programming language. Turing is implemented in the Julia language and allows the user to write probabilistic models using an intuitive @model syntax.

Turing provides a wide range of Monte-Carlo sampling and optimisation-based inference methods for performing inference on probabilistic models.

Current functionalities include:

Citing Turing.jl

If you have used Turing.jl in your work, we would be very grateful if you could cite the following:

Turing.jl: a general-purpose probabilistic programming language
Tor Erlend Fjelde, Kai Xu, David Widmann, Mohamed Tarek, Cameron Pfiffer, Martin Trapp, Seth D. Axen, Xianda Sun, Markus Hauru, Penelope Yong, Will Tebbutt, Zoubin Ghahramani, Hong Ge
ACM Transactions on Probabilistic Machine Learning, 2025

Turing: A Language for Flexible Probabilistic Inference
Hong Ge, Kai Xu, Zoubin Ghahramani
Proceedings of the Twenty-First International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, PMLR 84:1682-1690, 2018.

Expand for BibTeX
@article{10.1145/3711897,
author = {Fjelde, Tor Erlend and Xu, Kai and Widmann, David and Tarek, Mohamed and Pfiffer, Cameron and Trapp, Martin and Axen, Seth D. and Sun, Xianda and Hauru, Markus and Yong, Penelope and Tebbutt, Will and Ghahramani, Zoubin and Ge, Hong},
title = {Turing.jl: a general-purpose probabilistic programming language},
year = {2025},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3711897},
doi = {10.1145/3711897},
note = {Just Accepted},
journal = {ACM Trans. Probab. Mach. Learn.},
month = feb,
}

@InProceedings{pmlr-v84-ge18b,
  title = 	 {Turing: A Language for Flexible Probabilistic Inference},
  author = 	 {Ge, Hong and Xu, Kai and Ghahramani, Zoubin},
  booktitle = 	 {Proceedings of the Twenty-First International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics},
  pages = 	 {1682--1690},
  year = 	 {2018},
  editor = 	 {Storkey, Amos and Perez-Cruz, Fernando},
  volume = 	 {84},
  series = 	 {Proceedings of Machine Learning Research},
  month = 	 {09--11 Apr},
  publisher =    {PMLR},
  pdf = 	 {http://proceedings.mlr.press/v84/ge18b/ge18b.pdf},
  url = 	 {https://proceedings.mlr.press/v84/ge18b.html},
}

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    Bayesian inference with probabilistic programming.

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