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:::{post} May 30, 2022
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:tags: neural networks, perceptron, variational inference, minibatch
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:tags: pymc.ADVI, pymc.Bernoulli, pymc.Data, pymc.Minibatch, pymc.Model, pymc.Normal, variational inference
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**Probabilistic Programming**, **Deep Learning** and "**Big Data**" are among the biggest topics in machine learning. Inside of PP, a lot of innovation is focused on making things scale using **Variational Inference**. In this example, I will show how to use **Variational Inference** in PyMC to fit a simple Bayesian Neural Network. I will also discuss how bridging Probabilistic Programming and Deep Learning can open up very interesting avenues to explore in future research.
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### Probabilistic Programming at scale
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**Probabilistic Programming** allows very flexible creation of custom probabilistic models and is mainly concerned with **inference** and learning from your data. The approach is inherently **Bayesian** so we can specify **priors** to inform and constrain our models and get uncertainty estimation in form of a **posterior** distribution. Using {ref}`MCMC sampling algorithms <multilevel_modeling>` we can draw samples from this posterior to very flexibly estimate these models. PyMC, [NumPyro](https://github.com/pyro-ppl/numpyro), and [Stan](http://mc-stan.org/) are the current state-of-the-art tools for consructing and estimating these models. One major drawback of sampling, however, is that it's often slow, especially for high-dimensional models and large datasets. That's why more recently, **variational inference** algorithms have been developed that are almost as flexible as MCMC but much faster. Instead of drawing samples from the posterior, these algorithms instead fit a distribution (*e.g.* normal) to the posterior turning a sampling problem into and optimization problem. Automatic Differentation Variational Inference {cite:p}`kucukelbir2015automatic` is implemented in several probabilistic programming packages including PyMC, NumPyro and Stan.
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**Probabilistic Programming** allows very flexible creation of custom probabilistic models and is mainly concerned with **inference** and learning from your data. The approach is inherently **Bayesian** so we can specify **priors** to inform and constrain our models and get uncertainty estimation in form of a **posterior** distribution. Using [MCMC sampling algorithms](http://twiecki.github.io/blog/2015/11/10/mcmc-sampling/) we can draw samples from this posterior to very flexibly estimate these models. PyMC, [NumPyro](https://github.com/pyro-ppl/numpyro), and [Stan](http://mc-stan.org/) are the current state-of-the-art tools for consructing and estimating these models. One major drawback of sampling, however, is that it's often slow, especially for high-dimensional models and large datasets. That's why more recently, **variational inference** algorithms have been developed that are almost as flexible as MCMC but much faster. Instead of drawing samples from the posterior, these algorithms instead fit a distribution (*e.g.* normal) to the posterior turning a sampling problem into and optimization problem. Automatic Differentation Variational Inference {cite:p}`kucukelbir2015automatic` is implemented in PyMC, NumPyro and Stan.
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Unfortunately, when it comes to traditional ML problems like classification or (non-linear) regression, Probabilistic Programming often plays second fiddle (in terms of accuracy and scalability) to more algorithmic approaches like [ensemble learning](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensemble_learning) (e.g. [random forests](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_forest) or [gradient boosted regression trees](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boosting_(machine_learning)).
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We could now just run a MCMC sampler like {class}`pymc.NUTS` which works pretty well in this case, but was already mentioned, this will become very slow as we scale our model up to deeper architectures with more layers.
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We could now just run a MCMC sampler like {class}`~pymc.step_methods.hmc.nuts.NUTS` which works pretty well in this case, but was already mentioned, this will become very slow as we scale our model up to deeper architectures with more layers.
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Instead, we will use the {class}`pymc.ADVI` variational inference algorithm. This is much faster and will scale better. Note, that this is a mean-field approximation so we ignore correlations in the posterior.
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Instead, we will use the {class}`~pymc.variational.inference.ADVI` variational inference algorithm. This is much faster and will scale better. Note, that this is a mean-field approximation so we ignore correlations in the posterior.
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Now that we trained our model, lets predict on the hold-out set using a posterior predictive check (PPC). We can use {func}`~pymc.sample_posterior_predictive` to generate new data (in this case class predictions) from the posterior (sampled from the variational estimation).
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Now that we trained our model, lets predict on the hold-out set using a posterior predictive check (PPC). We can use {func}`~pymc.sampling.sample_posterior_predictive` to generate new data (in this case class predictions) from the posterior (sampled from the variational estimation).
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