POPL 2025
Sun 19 - Sat 25 January 2025 Denver, Colorado, United States

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Sun 19 Jan 2025 10:15 - 10:30 at Peek-A-Boo - First session Chair(s): Matthijs Vákár

Nesting probabilistic programs is a powerful mechanism to express metareasoning and planning problems. Nested Inference, however, is a challenging task because of both tractability and formalization issues. In this work, we propose to perform exact (nested) inference for nested discrete probabilistic programs through an operational semantics based on probabilistic pushdown automata. Thereby, nested inference is reduced to solving a monotone system of polynomial equations. We report on some preliminary experimental results comparing our approach with the probabilistic programming language WebPPL.

Extended abstract (LAFI_25___Pontiggia-Bartocci-Chiari.pdf)536KiB

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Sun 19 Jan

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09:00 - 10:30
First sessionLAFI at Peek-A-Boo
Chair(s): Matthijs Vákár Utrecht University
09:00
5m
Day opening
Welcome
LAFI
Matthijs Vákár Utrecht University, Atılım Güneş Baydin University of Oxford
09:06
20m
Industry talk
Industry Talk: Basis AI
LAFI

09:27
15m
Talk
Towards Symbolic Execution for Probability and Non-determinism
LAFI
Jack Czenszak Northeastern University, John Li Northeastern University, Steven Holtzen Northeastern University
09:43
15m
Talk
Lazy Knowledge Compilation for Discrete PPLs
LAFI
Maddy Bowers Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Alexander K. Lew Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Joshua B. Tenenbaum Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Vikash K. Mansinghka Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Armando Solar-Lezama Massachusetts Institute of Technology
09:59
15m
Talk
Reasoning About Sampling Without Sampling: Atomic Machines for Contextual Equivalence in Probabilistic Programs
LAFI
Anthony D'Arienzo University of Illinois and Sandia National Laboratories, Jon Aytac Sandia National Laboratories
10:15
15m
Talk
Exact Inference for Nested Discrete Probabilistic Programs (Remote)
LAFI
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