Infer.NET
Original author(s)Microsoft Research
Developer(s)Microsoft,
.NET Foundation
Initial release2008 (2008)
Stable release
v0.4.2301.0301[1] / January 3, 2023 (2023-01-03)
Repositorygithub.com/dotnet/infer
Written inC#
Operating systemMicrosoft Windows, macOS, Linux
Platform.NET Framework, .NET, Mono
TypeMachine learning software library
LicenseMIT License
Websitedotnet.github.io/infer/

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

Overview

Infer.NET follows a model-based approach and is used to solve different kinds of machine learning problems including standard problems like classification, recommendation or clustering, customized solutions and domain-specific problems. The framework is used in various different domains such as bioinformatics, epidemiology, computer vision, and information retrieval.[4][5]

Development of the framework was started by a team at Microsoft’s research centre in Cambridge, UK in 2004. It was first released for academic use in 2008 and later open sourced in 2018.[5] In 2013, Microsoft was awarded the USPTO’s Patents for Humanity Award in Information Technology category for Infer.NET and the work in advanced machine learning techniques.[6][7]

Infer.NET is used internally at Microsoft as the machine learning engine in some of their products such as Office, Azure, and Xbox.[8]

The source code is licensed under MIT License and available on GitHub.[9] It is also available as NuGet package.[10]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "dotnet/infer". GitHub. 3 January 2023.
  2. ↑ "Microsoft's 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". Internet of Business.
  4. ↑ Bandyopadhyay, Avimanyu (13 October 2018). "Microsoft Open Sources Infer.NET AI Framework [For Humanity]".
  5. 1 2 Speed, Richard. "Microsoft open-sources Infer.NET AI code just in time for the weekend". www.theregister.com.
  6. ↑ "2013 Award Recipients". www.uspto.gov.
  7. ↑ "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". InfoWorld.
  9. ↑ "dotnet/infer". November 3, 2020 – via GitHub.
  10. ↑ "Infer.Net 2.4.0". www.nuget.org.

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