I recently read a HacknerNews thread on Stan and probabilistic programming more generally and one user commented that “The next cut of Stan will likely use TFP [Tensorflow Probability] as a backend” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25517374 I see that the thread is from February 2021 so I was…

There is no plan for Stan to depend on tensorflow, though there is an experimental version of the stanc3 compiler which can compile to tensorflow probability

[image] stevebronder: there is an experimental version of the stanc3 compiler which can compile to tensorflow probability 🤯

It’s slower than using the stan math library and was made because tfp was interested in Stan as a frontend

Are there any plans to depend on tensorflow?

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mitzimorris October 11, 2021, 1:31pm 5

the TFP backend was discussed at the most recent Stan Language dev meeting: Monthly language dev meeting - #22 by Bob_Carpenter

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Are there any plans to depend on tensorflow?

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