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Statically bounded-memory delayed sampling for probabilistic streams

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Probabilistic programming languages aid developers performing Bayesian inference. These languages provide programming constructs and tools for probabilistic modeling and automated inference. Prior work introduced a probabilistic programming language, ProbZelus, to extend probabilistic programming functionality to unbounded streams of data. This work demonstrated that the delayed sampling inference algorithm could be extended to work in a streaming context. ProbZelus showed that while delayed sampling could be effectively deployed on some programs, depending on the probabilistic model under consideration, delayed sampling is not guaranteed to use a bounded amount of memory over the course of the execution of the program. In this paper, we the present conditions on a probabilistic program’s execution under which delayed sampling will execute in bounded memory. The two conditions are dataflow properties of the core operations of delayed sampling: the m -consumed property and the unseparated paths property . A program executes in bounded memory under delayed sampling if, and only if, it satisfies the m -consumed and unseparated paths properties. We propose a static analysis that abstracts over these properties to soundly ensure that any program that passes the analysis satisfies these properties, and thus executes in bounded memory under delayed sampling.
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hal-03401752 , version 1 (25-10-2021)

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Eric Atkinson, Guillaume Baudart, Louis Mandel, Charles Yuan, Michael Carbin. Statically bounded-memory delayed sampling for probabilistic streams. Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages, 2021, 5 (OOPSLA), pp.1-28. ⟨10.1145/3485492⟩. ⟨hal-03401752⟩
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