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A software library for constructing and learning probabilistic models is presented. The library offers a set of building blocks from which a large variety of static and dynamic models can be built. These include hierarchical models for…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2012-07-09 Markus Harva , Tapani Raiko , Antti Honkela , Harri Valpola , Juha Karhunen

SymJAX is a symbolic programming version of JAX simplifying graph input/output/updates and providing additional functionalities for general machine learning and deep learning applications. From an user perspective SymJAX provides a la…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Randall Balestriero

Neural simulation-based inference (SBI) describes an emerging family of methods for Bayesian inference with intractable likelihood functions that use neural networks as surrogate models. Here we introduce sbijax, a Python package that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Simon Dirmeier , Antonietta Mira , Carlo Albert

BayesOpt is a library with state-of-the-art Bayesian optimization methods to solve nonlinear optimization, stochastic bandits or sequential experimental design problems. Bayesian optimization is sample efficient by building a posterior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-05-30 Ruben Martinez-Cantin

We introduce fastabx, a high-performance Python library for building ABX discrimination tasks. ABX is a measure of the separation between generic categories of interest. It has been used extensively to evaluate phonetic discriminability in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Maxime Poli , Emmanuel Chemla , Emmanuel Dupoux

We present \texttt{MathOptAI.jl}, an open-source Julia library for embedding trained machine learning predictors into a JuMP model. \texttt{MathOptAI.jl} can embed a wide variety of neural networks, decision trees, and Gaussian Processes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Oscar Dowson , Robert B Parker , Russel Bent

We present the first version of CYJAX, a package for machine learning Calabi-Yau metrics using JAX. It is meant to be accessible both as a top-level tool and as a library of modular functions. CYJAX is currently centered around the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-13 Mathis Gerdes , Sven Krippendorf

We introduce Atomistic learned potentials in JAX (apax), a flexible and efficient open source software package for training and inference of machine-learned interatomic potentials. Built on the JAX framework, apax supports GPU acceleration…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-11-19 Moritz René Schäfer , Nico Segreto , Fabian Zills , Christian Holm , Johannes Kästner

We present SPUX - a modular framework for Bayesian inference enabling uncertainty quantification and propagation in linear and nonlinear, deterministic and stochastic models, and supporting Bayesian model selection. SPUX can be coupled to…

Computation · Statistics 2021-05-14 Jonas Šukys , Marco Bacci

Modern Bayesian inference involves a mixture of computational techniques for estimating, validating, and drawing conclusions from probabilistic models as part of principled workflows for data analysis. Typical problems in Bayesian workflows…

The covariance matrix adaptation evolution strategy (CMA-ES) has been highly effective in black-box continuous optimization, as demonstrated by its success in both benchmark problems and various real-world applications. To address the need…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Masahiro Nomura , Masashi Shibata , Ryoki Hamano

We present MPAX (Mathematical Programming in JAX), an open-source first-order solver for large-scale linear programming (LP) and convex quadratic programming (QP) built natively in JAX. The primary goal of MPAX is to exploit modern machine…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Haihao Lu , Zedong Peng , Jinwen Yang

Variational inference has become a widely used method to approximate posteriors in complex latent variables models. However, deriving a variational inference algorithm generally requires significant model-specific analysis, and these…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-01-03 Rajesh Ranganath , Sean Gerrish , David M. Blei

Recent advances in coreset methods have shown that a selection of representative datapoints can replace massive volumes of data for Bayesian inference, preserving the relevant statistical information and significantly accelerating…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-01-18 Dionysis Manousakas , Hippolyt Ritter , Theofanis Karaletsos

Optimization of problems with high computational power demands is a challenging task. A probabilistic approach to such optimization called Bayesian optimization lowers performance demands by solving mathematically simpler model of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Jakub Klus , Pavel Grunt , Martin Dobrovolný

A standard practice in extragalactic population studies is the fitting of parametric models to galaxy images. From such fits, key structural parameters of galaxies such as total flux and effective radius (size) can be extracted. One of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-12 Imad Pasha , Tim B. Miller

JAX is widely used in machine learning and scientific computing, the latter of which often relies on existing high-performance code that we would ideally like to incorporate into JAX. Reimplementing the existing code in JAX is often…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-28 Jakob Roth , Martin Reinecke , Gordian Edenhofer

ABCpy is a highly modular scientific library for Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) written in Python. The main contribution of this paper is to document a software engineering effort that enables domain scientists to easily apply ABC…

Awkward Array is a library for performing NumPy-like computations on nested, variable-sized data, enabling array-oriented programming on arbitrary data structures in Python. However, imperative (procedural) solutions can sometimes be easier…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Ianna Osborne , Jim Pivarski , Ioana Ifrim , Angus Hollands , Henry Schreiner

flowMC is a Python library for accelerated Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) leveraging deep generative modeling. It is built on top of the machine learning libraries JAX and Flax. At its core, flowMC uses a local sampler and a learnable…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-14 Kaze W. K. Wong , Marylou Gabrié , Daniel Foreman-Mackey