Christian Blumenthal

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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2024
0009-0003-6427-0229ORCID · reported

Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several

Software engineering, systems software and programming languages · 1 · 1 since 2021

Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.

Software engineering, system software, and programming languages
1 paper
Programming languages and type systems · 87% Program verification · 13%
Artificial intelligence
1 paper
Probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning · 100%

Topics — the 5 heaviest of 5, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Machine learning › Probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning › statistical inference
bayesian inference
0.812024
Exact Bayesian Inference for Loopy Probabilistic Programs using Generating Functions · Proc. ACM Program. Lang. 2024
Machine learning › Probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning › statistical inference › bayesian inference › posterior inference
exact bayesian inference
0.812024
Exact Bayesian Inference for Loopy Probabilistic Programs using Generating Functions · Proc. ACM Program. Lang. 2024
Programming languages and type systems
probabilistic programming
0.812024
Exact Bayesian Inference for Loopy Probabilistic Programs using Generating Functions · Proc. ACM Program. Lang. 2024
Programming languages and type systems › probabilistic programming
probabilistic program semantics
0.812024
Exact Bayesian Inference for Loopy Probabilistic Programs using Generating Functions · Proc. ACM Program. Lang. 2024
Program verification
quantitative verification
0.212024
Exact Bayesian Inference for Loopy Probabilistic Programs using Generating Functions · Proc. ACM Program. Lang. 2024

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

generating functions · 1.5denotational semantics · 1.5computer algebra · 1.5
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2024 Exact Bayesian Inference for Loopy Probabilistic Programs using Generating Functions
abstract
We present an exact Bayesian inference method for inferring posterior distributions encoded by probabilistic programs featuring possibly unbounded loops . Our method is built on a denotational semantics represented by probability generating functions , which resolves semantic intricacies induced by intertwining discrete probabilistic loops with conditioning (for encoding posterior observations). We implement our method in a tool called Prodigy; it augments existing computer algebra systems with the theory of generating functions for the (semi-)automatic inference and quantitative verification of conditioned probabilistic programs. Experimental results show that Prodigy can handle various infinite-state loopy programs and exhibits comparable performance to state-of-the-art exact inference tools over loop-free benchmarks.
Lutz Klinkenberg, Christian Blumenthal, Mingshuai Chen, Darion Haase, Joost-Pieter Katoen
Proc. ACM Program. Lang.2