A general-purpose probabilistic programming system with programmable inference
# Gen.jl

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Gen: A General-Purpose Probabilistic Programming System with Programmable Inference

*Warning: This is rapidly evolving research software.*

See [https://gen.dev](https://gen.dev/) for introduction, documentation, and tutorials.

Gen was created at the [MIT Probabilistic Computing Project](http://probcomp.csail.mit.edu/). To get in contact, please email gen-contact@mit.edu.

If you use Gen in your research, please cite our 2019 PLDI paper:

Gen: A General-Purpose Probabilistic Programming System with Programmable Inference. Cusumano-Towner, M. F.; Saad, F. A.; Lew, A.; and Mansinghka, V. K.
In Proceedings of the 40th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI ‘19). ([pdf](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3314221.3314642)) ([bibtex](https://www.gen.dev/assets/gen-pldi.txt))
