GSoC 2023 Idea List

Mentors: Brandon Willard, Rémi Louf, Dan Gerlanc, Zolisa Bleki, Kaustubh Chaudhari

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Aesara

• Add support for NumPy generalized ufunc Ops. (350 hours)
  • https://github.com/aesara-devs/aesara/pull/1215
  • https://github.com/aesara-devs/aesara/issues/695
• Add a Textual graph debugging interface (350-175 hours)
  • https://github.com/aesara-devs/aesara/issues/938
• Improve JAX transpilation support. (350-175 hours)
  • JAX issues

AePPL

• Extend support for Scan/loop-based models in Aesara. (350 hours)
  • https://github.com/aesara-devs/aeppl/issues/178
• Add more probability distributions. (350-175 hours)
  • https://github.com/aesara-devs/aeppl/issues/212

AeMCMC

• Add new probability facts and samplers to AeMCMC. (350-175 hours)
  • https://github.com/aesara-devs/aemcmc/issues/46
  • https://github.com/aesara-devs/aemcmc/issues/63
  • https://github.com/aesara-devs/aemcmc/issues/62
  • https://github.com/aesara-devs/aemcmc/issues/61
  • https://github.com/aesara-devs/aemcmc/issues/57
• Implement actual Dirichlet processes. (350 hours)
• Implement reversible-jump MCMC (350 hours)
  • https://github.com/aesara-devs/aemcmc/issues/27
• Symbolic sampling loops. (350-175 hours)
  • https://github.com/aesara-devs/aemcmc/issues/80

Misc.

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