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Show HN: Brancher – A user-friendly PyTorch module for probabilistic inference (brancher.org)
96 points by lucaambrogioni on June 15, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 7 comments



Can someone comment in this vs Pyro?


Brancher is targeted to a wider audience, including people who have only a basic training in machine learning and Python programming. The interface is designed to be as close as possible to the math. The downside is that Brancher is less flexible than Pyro.


Looks awesome, and thanks for the insight!


Thank you!


How does this compare to Probabilistic Torch?


Can anyone comment on how this compares to pymc3?


Hi. The main difference with PyMC is that Brancher is build on the top of the deep learning library PyTorch. Every deep learning tool that is implemented in PyTorch can be used for constructing deep probabilistic models in Brancher.

Also PyMC mostly uses sampling while Brancher is based on variational inference.




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