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Probabilistic Programming Languages (PPLs) are a powerful tool in machine learning, allowing highly expressive generative models to be expressed succinctly. They couple complex inference algorithms, implemented by the language, with an…

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Tensor networks (TNs) enable compact representations of large tensors through shared parameters. Their use in probabilistic modeling is particularly appealing, as probabilistic tensor networks (PTNs) allow for tractable computation of…

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We introduce TensorFlow Agents, an efficient infrastructure paradigm for building parallel reinforcement learning algorithms in TensorFlow. We simulate multiple environments in parallel, and group them to perform the neural network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Danijar Hafner , James Davidson , Vincent Vanhoucke

We present a novel probabilistic programming framework that couples directly to existing large-scale simulators through a cross-platform probabilistic execution protocol, which allows general-purpose inference engines to record and control…

Batch-splitting (data-parallelism) is the dominant distributed Deep Neural Network (DNN) training strategy, due to its universal applicability and its amenability to Single-Program-Multiple-Data (SPMD) programming. However, batch-splitting…

A central tenet of probabilistic programming is that a model is specified exactly once in a canonical representation which is usable by inference algorithms. We describe JointDistributions, a family of declarative representations of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Dan Piponi , Dave Moore , Joshua V. Dillon

The deployment of convolutional neural networks is often hindered by high computational and storage requirements. Structured model pruning is a promising approach to alleviate these requirements. Using the VGG-16 model as an example, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Kongtao Chen , Ken Franko , Ruoxin Sang

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have gained prominence for their capability to tackle supervised learning tasks that conform to physical laws, notably nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs). This paper presents…

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Tuning tensor program generation involves searching for various possible program transformation combinations for a given program on target hardware to optimize the tensor program execution. It is already a complex process because of the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Gaurav Verma , Siddhisanket Raskar , Zhen Xie , Abid M Malik , Murali Emani , Barbara Chapman

Tensor accelerators now represent a growing share of compute resources in modern CPUs and GPUs. However, they are hard to program, leading developers to use vendor-provided kernel libraries that support tensor accelerators. As a result, the…

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We present VegasFlow, a new software for fast evaluation of high dimensional integrals based on Monte Carlo integration techniques designed for platforms with hardware accelerators. The growing complexity of calculations and simulations in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Stefano Carrazza , Juan M. Cruz-Martinez

We present a new parallel algorithm for probabilistic graphical model optimization. The algorithm relies on data-parallel primitives (DPPs), which provide portable performance over hardware architecture. We evaluate results on CPUs and GPUs…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Brenton Lessley , Talita Perciano , Colleen Heinemann , David Camp , Hank Childs , E. Wes Bethel

Genetic Programming, a kind of evolutionary computation and machine learning algorithm, is shown to benefit significantly from the application of vectorized data and the TensorFlow numerical computation library on both CPU and GPU…

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TensorBNN is a new package based on TensorFlow that implements Bayesian inference for modern neural network models. The posterior density of neural network model parameters is represented as a point cloud sampled using Hamiltonian Monte…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-07-12 Braden Kronheim , Michelle Kuchera , Harrison Prosper

We introduce a library called Push that takes a probabilistic programming approach to Bayesian deep learning (BDL). This library enables concurrent execution of BDL inference algorithms on multi-GPU hardware for neural network (NN) models.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Daniel Huang , Chris Camaño , Jonathan Tsegaye , Jonathan Austin Gale

We introduce a learning-based framework to optimize tensor programs for deep learning workloads. Efficient implementations of tensor operators, such as matrix multiplication and high dimensional convolution, are key enablers of effective…

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We present a framework for specifying, training, evaluating, and deploying machine learning models. Our focus is on simplifying cutting edge machine learning for practitioners in order to bring such technologies into production. Recognizing…

As large language models (LLMs) scale out with tensor parallelism (TP) and pipeline parallelism (PP) and production stacks have aggressively optimized the data plane (attention/GEMM and KV cache), sampling, the decision plane that turns…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Bohan Zhao , Zane Cao , Yongchao He

The proliferation of probabilistic AI has prompted proposals for specialized stochastic computers. Despite promising efficiency gains, these proposals have failed to gain traction because they rely on fundamentally limited modeling…

The development of enhanced sampling methods has greatly extended the scope of atomistic simulations, allowing long-time phenomena to be studied with accessible computational resources. Many such methods rely on the identification of an…

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