TreePPL: A Universal Probabilistic Programming Language for Phylogenetics
Viktor Senderov,
Jan Kudlicka,
Daniel Lundén
et al.
Abstract:We present TreePPL, a language for probabilistic modeling and inference in statistical phylogenetics. Specifically, TreePPL is a domain-specific universal probabilistic programming language (PPL), particularly designed for describing phylogenetic models. The core idea is to express the model as a computer program, which estimates the posterior probability distribution of interest when executed sufficiently many times. The program uses two special probabilistic constructs:assumestatements, which describe latent… Show more
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