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A category theory framework for Bayesian learning

Category Theory 2021-11-30 v1 Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning

Abstract

Inspired by the foundational works by Spivak and Fong and Cruttwell et al., we introduce a categorical framework to formalize Bayesian inference and learning. The two key ideas at play here are the notions of Bayesian inversions and the functor GL as constructed by Cruttwell et al.. In this context, we find that Bayesian learning is the simplest case of the learning paradigm. We then obtain categorical formulations of batch and sequential Bayes updates while also verifying that the two coincide in a specific example.

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@article{arxiv.2111.14293,
  title  = {A category theory framework for Bayesian learning},
  author = {Kotaro Kamiya and John Welliaveetil},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.14293},
  year   = {2021}
}
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