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Birch

An open source probabilistic programming language

Birch is an open source probabilistic programming language that transpiles to C++. It combines automatic differentiation, automatic marginalization, and automatic conditioning to bring advanced modeling tools to statisticians, data scientists, and machine learning engineers.

Probabilistic models are specified by writing a program to simulate the joint distribution. Inference methods are also written in Birch. Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) is currently supported, with analytical optimizations such as locally-optimal proposals and Rao-Blackwellization applied automatically.

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