Promoting Probabilistic Programming System (PPS) Development in Probabilistic Programming for Advancing Machine Learning (PPAML)
Abstract
Machine Learning has demonstrated the potential to transform many areas of science, commerce, and the military. However, creating and maintaining successful machine learning systems is an arduous task that requires a doctoral degree and heroic software engineering efforts. Probabilistic Programming for Advancing Machine Learning (PPAML) by creating probabilistic programming systems and associated solvers-aimed to make existing machine learning applications easier to build and to greatly extend the range of problems that can be successfully solved by machine learning. This effort acted as the voice of the user: (a) exposing the probabilistic programming, machine learning and inference engine performers to a breadth of user scenarios over a wide a variety of domains, (b) evaluated and produced feedback on PPS tools to enable the performer teams to understand user perspectives and spur them to enhance their PPS for future users, and (c) developed a community of users in multiple distinct application areas who are invested in the future developments of PPSs.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 2018
- Accession Number
- AD1050323
Entities
People
- Eric Woldridge
Organizations
- Galois, Inc.