Turing Libraries

This page lists all the packages that are part of the The Turing Organisation, and provides links to their respective API documentation pages and GitHub repositories.

If you are looking for tutorials and usage guides, please visit this page.

Turing.jl itself

Turing

API

GitHub

The main entry point to the Turing ecosystem

Modelling Languages

DynamicPPL	API	GitHub	Domain-specific language and backend for probabilistic programming; contains the core functionality of Turing.jl
JuliaBUGS	API	GitHub	A graph-based probabilistic programming language
TuringGLM	API	GitHub	Bayesian generalised linear models used for returning an instantiated Turing model using the formula syntax
AbstractPPL	API	GitHub	An abstract interface for probabilistic programming languages

Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC)

AbstractMCMC	API	GitHub	Abstract types and interfaces for Markov chain Monte Carlo methods, featuring progress bars, parallel sampling, and user-defined callbacks
AdvancedHMC	API	GitHub	A robust, modular, and efficient implementation of advanced Hamiltonian Monte Carlo algorithms
AdvancedMH	API	GitHub	Random walk and adaptive Metropolis–Hastings algorithms
AdvancedPS	API	GitHub	Lightweight implementation of particle-based Monte Carlo algorithms
SliceSampling	API	GitHub	Univariate and multivariate slice sampling algorithms
EllipticalSliceSampling	API	GitHub	Elliptical slice sampling for inference in models with multivariate Gaussian priors
NestedSamplers	API	GitHub	Single- and multi-ellipsoidal nested sampling algorithms
ThermodynamicIntegration	API	GitHub	Computing Bayesian evidence using thermodynamic integration

Variational Inference

AdvancedVI	API	GitHub	Variational inference algorithms for Bayesian models
NormalizingFlows	API	GitHub	Variational inference and normalizing flows for Bayesian computation

Utilities

TuringCallbacks	API	GitHub	Convenient callbacks for sampling in Turing.jl
TuringBenchmarking	API	GitHub	Tools to benchmark and check Turing models

Diagnostics

MCMCChains	API	GitHub	Implementation of the Chains type returned by Turing sampling, with functions for diagnostics and visualisations
MCMCDiagnosticTools	API	GitHub	Extra functionality for diagnosing samples generated with MCMC methods
ParetoSmooth	API	GitHub	Leave-one-out cross-validation for fitted Bayesian models using Pareto smoothed importance sampling

Distributions

Bijectors	API	GitHub	Transformations for distributions
DistributionsAD	API	GitHub	Automatic differentiation for calculating the log probability densities of distributions

Infrastructure

turinglang.github.io	GitHub	The code for this website itself
docs	GitHub	The tutorials and usage guides; any page whose URL begins with https://turinglang.org/docs is built here
actions	GitHub	Shared GitHub Actions for the TuringLang organisation

Gaussian Processes

The following packages come under the umbrella of the JuliaGaussianProcesses organisation.

AbstractGPs	API	GitHub	Low-level API and basic functionality for working with Gaussian processes
KernelFunctions	API	GitHub	Kernel functions for machine learning
ApproximateGPs	API	GitHub	Approximate inference algorithms for Gaussian process models
GPLikelihoods	API	GitHub	Likelihoods used as building blocks in non-Gaussian problems