PPX is a cross-platform Probabilistic Programming eXecution protocol and API based on flatbuffers. It is intended as an open interoperability protocol between models and inference engines implemented in different probabilistic programming languages.
Probabilistic programming is about the execution probabilistic models under the control of inference engines, and PPX allows the model and the inference engine to be
- implemented in different programming languages and
- executed in separate processes and on separate machines across networks.
PPX is inspired by ONNX, the Open Neural Network Exchange project allowing interoperability between major deep learning frameworks.
In the terminal type the following:
git clone https://github.com/google/flatbuffers.git
cd flatbuffers
cmake -G "Unix Makefiles"
make
Define the ppx.fb script and run
sh compile.shWe provide PPX compiled to all programming languages officially supported by flatbuffers. These are:
- C++
- C#
- Dart
- Go
- Java
- JavaScript
- Lobster
- Lua
- PHP
- Python
- Rust
- TypeScript
PPX is distributed under the BSD License.
PPX has been developed by