Yeah exactly! I looked around, but couldn't find many other people using it for things besides neural networks though. Any favorite other examples you've seen?
Mostly I use pytorch for statistical modeling https://pyro.ai . Under the hood that package uses a lot of Monte Carlo integration and variational methods (i.e. integration by optimization). It does support neural nets, but probably >80% of pyro users stick to simpler hierarchical Bayesian models.
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Yeah exactly! I looked around, but couldn't find many other people using it for things besides neural networks though. Any favorite other examples you've seen?
Mostly I use pytorch for statistical modeling https://pyro.ai . Under the hood that package uses a lot of Monte Carlo integration and variational methods (i.e. integration by optimization). It does support neural nets, but probably >80% of pyro users stick to simpler hierarchical Bayesian models.