Determine applicability of new interfaces for probabilistic programming #4
Description
Hi all. I'm trying to determine the applicability of some of this work to some of my interests in PP.
I recently started exploring a technique which utilizes Mjolnir and a simple type system to perform an optimization at @generated expansion time. The optimization is dependent on the "semantics" of the inference operation which you are performing (which is currently expressed through a combination of type inference and a reaching analysis). I've written a small abstract here.
My usage of Mjolnir is sort of funky - and I'm guessing the original use case is not quite like this. It almost seems like the new compiler work applies - but I really don't understand it yet, so I can't say with certainty.
Nonetheless, I wanted to start this issue as a reference so that this topic might be explored (I know AD is being explored as we speak).