NOTE: This repository is not maintained. We reworked the system from the ground up. The new reposity can be found there: https://github.com/probcomp/Gen.jl

Gen

Gen is a featherweight embedded probabilistic programming language and compositional inference programming library.

WARNING: Gen is unsupported and highly unstable research software.

Installing

Gen.jl is not a a publicly registered Julia package. To use or develop Gen.jl, clone the repository with:

julia> Pkg.clone("git@github.com:probcomp/Gen.jl.git")

You can find the location on your filesystem where Julia placed the clone using:

julia> Pkg.dir("Gen")

Run tests

julia> Pkg.test("Gen")

Installing support for IJulia notebooks

To install the Gen.jl notebook extension for Jupyter notebooks, which provides a simple API for Javascript-based trace renderings in Jupyter noteoboks, use:

$ cd jupyter/
$ ./install_notebook_extensions.sh