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Algorithms for exact and approximate inference in stochastic logic programs (SLPs) are presented, based respectively, on variable elimination and importance sampling. We then show how SLPs can be used to represent prior distributions for…

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There has recently been exciting progress in the realm of *probabilistic separation logics*. An important subclass of these -- including PSL, Lilac, Bluebell, and pcOL -- are *general-purpose probabilistic logics* (or GPLs, for short),…

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