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Speaker: Tor Erlend Fjelde, University of Cambridge

Title: Turing.jl: a general-purpose probabilistic programming language

Abstract: In this talk, we will look at Turing.jl, a general-purpose probabilistic programming language built on top of the Julia programming language. We will discuss the design of Turing.jl, its key features, how it compares to other PPLs, and finally why it might be of interest to both practitioners and inference researchers.

Bio: Tor Erlend Fjelde is a PhD student in the Computational and Biological Learning (CBL) lab at the University of Cambridge. His research interests are mainly in the areas of sampling, be that for applications in Bayesian inference or molecular systems, and probabilistic programming.