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  • Titel: A Type Theory for Probabilistic and Bayesian Reasoning
  • Beteiligte: Adams, Robin [VerfasserIn]; Jacobs, Bart [VerfasserIn]
  • Erschienen: Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2018
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.TYPES.2015.1
  • Schlagwörter: Bayesian reasoning ; Probabilistic programming ; probabilistic algorithm ; effect module ; type theory
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  • Beschreibung: This paper introduces a novel type theory and logic for probabilistic reasoning. Its logic is quantitative, with fuzzy predicates. It includes normalisation and conditioning of states. This conditioning uses a key aspect that distinguishes our probabilistic type theory from quantum type theory, namely the bijective correspondence between predicates and side-effect free actions (called instrument, or assert, maps). The paper shows how suitable computation rules can be derived from this predicate-action correspondence, and uses these rules for calculating conditional probabilities in two well-known examples of Bayesian reasoning in (graphical) models. Our type theory may thus form the basis for a mechanisation of Bayesian inference.
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