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Infer.NET is a free and open source .NET machine learning library for performing Bayesian inference in graphical models and probabilistic programming. Developed by Microsoft since 2004, it was first released in 2008 and later open sourced in 2018. Infer.NET follows a model-based approach and can be used to solve various machine learning problems across domains like bioinformatics, computer vision, and information retrieval.

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Infer.NET is a free and open source .NET machine learning library for performing Bayesian inference in graphical models and probabilistic programming. Developed by Microsoft since 2004, it was first released in 2008 and later open sourced in 2018. Infer.NET follows a model-based approach and can be used to solve various machine learning problems across domains like bioinformatics, computer vision, and information retrieval.

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Infer.

NET
Infer.NET is a free and open source .NET software library for
Infer.NET
machine learning.[2] It supports running Bayesian inference in
graphical models and can also be used for probabilistic
programming.[3]

Original author(s) Microsoft


Overview Research
Developer(s) Microsoft,
Infer.NET follows a model-based approach and is used to solve
different kinds of machine learning problems including standard .NET Foundation
problems like classification, recommendation or clustering, Initial release 2008
customized solutions and domain-specific problems. The Stable release v0.4.2301.0301[1]
framework is used in various different domains such as
/ January 3, 2023
bioinformatics, epidemiology, computer vision, and information
retrieval.[4][5] Repository github.com
/dotnet/infer (http
Development of the framework was started by a team at s://github.com/do
Microsoft’s research centre in Cambridge, UK in 2004. It was tnet/infer)
first released for academic use in 2008 and later open sourced in
Written in C#
2018.[5] In 2013, Microsoft was awarded the USPTO’s Patents
for Humanity Award in Information Technology category for Operating system Microsoft
Infer.NET and the work in advanced machine learning Windows,
techniques.[6][7] macOS, Linux
Platform .NET
Infer.NET is used internally at Microsoft as the machine learning
engine in some of their products such as Office, Azure, and Framework,
Xbox.[8] .NET, Mono
Type Machine learning
The source code is licensed under MIT License and available on software library
GitHub.[9] It is also available as NuGet package.[10]
License MIT License
Website dotnet.github.io
See also /infer/ (https://dot
Free and open- net.github.io/infe
source software r/)
portal

Machine learning
ML.NET
scikit-learn

References
1. "dotnet/infer" (https://github.com/dotnet/infer). GitHub. 3 January 2023.
2. "Microsoft's popular machine learning framework Infer.NET goes open source" (https://mspo
weruser.com/microsofts-popular-machine-learning-framework-infer-net-goes-open-source/).
8 October 2018.
3. Millman, Rene (8 October 2018). "Microsoft makes Infer.NET machine learning framework
open-source" (https://internetofbusiness.com/microsoft-infer-net-ai-code-open-source/).
Internet of Business.
4. Bandyopadhyay, Avimanyu (13 October 2018). "Microsoft Open Sources Infer.NET AI
Framework [For Humanity]" (https://itsfoss.com/microsoft-ai-open-source-infer-net/).
5. Speed, Richard. "Microsoft open-sources Infer.NET AI code just in time for the weekend" (htt
ps://www.theregister.com/2018/10/05/imicrosoft_nfernet/). www.theregister.com.
6. "2013 Award Recipients" (https://www.uspto.gov/ip-policy/patent-policy/patents-humanity/20
13-award-recipients). www.uspto.gov.
7. "Microsoft Wins "Patents for Humanity" Award For Infer.NET From USPTO" (https://mspower
user.com/microsoft-wins-patents-for-humanity-award-for-infer-net-from-uspto/). 12 April 2013.
8. Krill, Paul (October 9, 2018). "Microsoft open-sources Infer.Net model-based machine
learning" (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3311994/microsoft-open-sources-infernet-machi
ne-learning.html). InfoWorld.
9. "dotnet/infer" (https://github.com/dotnet/infer). November 3, 2020 – via GitHub.
10. "Infer.Net 2.4.0" (https://www.nuget.org/packages/Infer.Net/). www.nuget.org.

Further reading
Knowles, D.; Parts, L.; Glass, D.; Winn, John (2010). "Modeling skin and ageing phenotypes
using latent variable models in Infer.NET" (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-con
tent/uploads/2016/02/knowles2010_predictive_medicine.pdf) (PDF).
Winn, John; Minka, Tom (2009). "Probabilistic Programming with Infer.NET" (https://tminka.gi
thub.io/papers/mlss2009/).
Winn, John; Simpson, Angela; Custovic, Adnan; Y. F. Tan, Vincent (2008). "Immune System
Modeling with Infer.NET" (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/20
16/02/escience_2page.pdf) (PDF).

External links
Infer.NET (https://dotnet.github.io/infer/)
GitHub - dotnet/infer (https://github.com/dotnet/infer)
Machine Intelligence and Perception - Microsoft Research (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/
research/group/machine-intelligence-and-perception/)
Infer.NET - Practical Implementation Issues and a Comparison of Approximation Techniques
(http://videolectures.net/abi07_winn_ipi/)

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