Scale By The Bay 2018: Jayant Krishnamurthy, Structured Deep Learning with Probabilistic Neural Prog

ai.bythebay.io Nov 2025, Oakland, full-stack AI conference Scale By the Bay 2019 is held on November 13-15 in sunny Oakland, California, on the shores of Lake Merritt: https://scale.bythebay.io. Join us! ----- Title: Structured Deep Learning with Probabilistic Neural Programs Machine learning problems with structured output spaces, such as generating from a context-free grammar, are difficult to represent in current deep learning frameworks. These frameworks let a user specify the neural network architecture for scoring a single output, but not the output space itself, which makes structured prediction difficult to express. In this talk, we describe probabilistic neural programs, an open-source Scala library for structured deep learning that lets a user specify both the architecture and output space in a simple, elegant form. This framework lets users rapidly implement, train, and run a variety of state-of-the-art structured prediction models that would be difficult or impossible to implement with other tools. We’ll demonstrate how the framework can be used to tackle an example structured prediction problem.

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