Paper at OOPSLA 2024

February 24, 2024

The paper entitled “Exact Bayesian Inference for Loopy Probabilistic Programs Using Generating Functions” by Lutz Klinkenberg, Christian Blumenthal, Mingshuai Chen, Darion Haase and Joost-Pieter Katoen has been accepted for the Conference Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications 2024 (OOPSLA). The paper presents a novel exact inference technique for discrete probabilistic programs with unbounded loops and conditioning. It uses probability generating functions to do exact inference and includes an extensive experimental evaluation.