Academic Catalog

COGS516 INTRODUCTION TO PROBABILISTIC PROGRAMMING

Course Code: 9020516
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(0-0)
ECTS Credit: 8.0
Department: Cognitive Sciences
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Graduate
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Offered Semester: Fall Semesters.

Course Content

Introduction to Probabilistic Programming; generative modelling, Bayesian inference, executing probabilistic programs; exact inference; rejection sampling; importance sampling; Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC); efficient MCMC Techniques; deep Probabilistic Programming; Probabilistic Programming applications.