Getting Started

Installation from source

git clone git@github.com:alan-ppl/alan.git
cd alan
git checkout main
pip install . # pip install .[extras] for running some models in examples/

Learn the basic concepts of Alan

Examples:

• Introduction to Alan
• Outline
• Setup
• Background
  • Variational Inference
  • Importance Sampling
  • (Massively Parallel) Reweighted Wake-Sleep
• Plated Models
  • MovieLens
• MP Importance Weighted Moment Estimates
• Models where both P and Q have parameters
  • Next Steps