Large Language Bayes

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.14025v1
• Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2025 18:30:29 GMT
• Title: Large Language Bayes
• Authors: Justin Domke,
• Abstract summary: This paper takes an informal problem description as input, and combines a large language model and a probabilistic programming language.<n>A posterior over latent variables follows by conditioning on observed data and integrating over formal models.<n>We show that this produces sensible predictions without the need to specify a formal model.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Many domain experts do not have the time or training to write formal Bayesian models. This paper takes an informal problem description as input, and combines a large language model and a probabilistic programming language to create a joint distribution over formal models, latent variables, and data. A posterior over latent variables follows by conditioning on observed data and integrating over formal models. This presents a challenging inference problem. We suggest an inference recipe that amounts to generating many formal models from the large language model, performing approximate inference on each, and then doing a weighted average. This is justified an analyzed as a combination of self-normalized importance sampling, MCMC, and variational inference. We show that this produces sensible predictions without the need to specify a formal model.

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