A category theory framework for Bayesian learning
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Abstract (arXiv)
Inspired by the foundational works by Spivak and Fong and Cruttwell et al., we introduce a categorical framework to formalize Bayesian inference and learning. The two key ideas at play here are the notions of Bayesian inversions and the functor GL as constructed by Cruttwell et al.. In this context, we find that Bayesian learning is the simplest case of the learning paradigm. We then obtain categorical formulations of batch and sequential Bayes updates while also verifying that the two coincide in a specific example.
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- 2017Backprop as Functor: A compositional perspective on supervised learningcited by 44
- 2021Categorical Foundations of Gradient-Based Learningcited by 44
- 2017Disintegration and Bayesian Inversion via String Diagramscited by 32
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