Jiaxin Shi

Thanks for the kind words! Could you be more specific on the example you request? From my understanding, it's a 4-node BN with all discrete variables. And exact inference is...

Thanks for the details. I guess an interactive tutorial in jupyter notebook would be suitable for this and indeed we need one. Because now we are refactoring the modeling primitives...

Great idea. Exponential families are always linked to conjugacy, which is very hard to have an automated design. I guess that's why existing frameworks don't have a good support (though...

Edward has some preliminary design of [conjugacy](https://github.com/blei-lab/edward/blob/master/edward/inferences/conjugacy/conjugacy.py). But they are doing this based on graph copying, which is a feature that TF people just don't like (see this [PR](https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/pull/5802) by...

I'm also interested in implementing some examples shown in the structured vae paper. That's a very neat paper. If you could outline some detailed needs, I'm happy to help with...

Update: @liyr will start working on a general abstraction for exponential families.

I like it. That's the ultimate goal. We are working at the very beginning though, to have some an `ExponentialFamily` abstraction, and something like `Normal.from_natural_parameter()`. Detecting conjugacy for single-particle models...

We have some attempts [here](https://github.com/thu-ml/zhusuan/tree/exponential_family), but they are far from perfect. @sameerkhurana10

That's in our plan but need quite amount of work to switch to the new-style of variable keeping mechanism.

Welcome for contribution!