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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.³⁴

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.⁶⁷

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

• Free and open-source software portal

• Machine learning
• ML.NET
• scikit-learn

Further reading

• Knowles, D.; Parts, L.; Glass, D.; Winn, John (2010). "Modeling skin and ageing phenotypes using latent variable models in Infer.NET" (PDF). Microsoft.
• Winn, John; Minka, Tom (2009). "Probabilistic Programming with Infer.NET".
• Winn, John; Simpson, Angela; Custovic, Adnan; Y. F. Tan, Vincent (2008). "Immune System Modeling with Infer.NET" (PDF). Microsoft.

External links

• Infer.NET
• GitHub - dotnet/infer
• Machine Intelligence and Perception - Microsoft Research
• Infer.NET - Practical Implementation Issues and a Comparison of Approximation Techniques

References

1. "Microsoft's popular machine learning framework Infer.NET goes open source". 8 October 2018. https://mspoweruser.com/microsofts-popular-machine-learning-framework-infer-net-goes-open-source/ ↩

2. Millman, Rene (8 October 2018). "Microsoft makes Infer.NET machine learning framework open-source". Internet of Business. https://internetofbusiness.com/microsoft-infer-net-ai-code-open-source/ ↩

3. Bandyopadhyay, Avimanyu (13 October 2018). "Microsoft Open Sources Infer.NET AI Framework [For Humanity]". https://itsfoss.com/microsoft-ai-open-source-infer-net/ ↩

4. Speed, Richard. "Microsoft open-sources Infer.NET AI code just in time for the weekend". www.theregister.com. https://www.theregister.com/2018/10/05/imicrosoft_nfernet/ ↩

5. Speed, Richard. "Microsoft open-sources Infer.NET AI code just in time for the weekend". www.theregister.com. https://www.theregister.com/2018/10/05/imicrosoft_nfernet/ ↩

6. "2013 Award Recipients". www.uspto.gov. https://www.uspto.gov/ip-policy/patent-policy/patents-humanity/2013-award-recipients ↩

7. "Microsoft Wins "Patents for Humanity" Award For Infer.NET From USPTO". 12 April 2013. https://mspoweruser.com/microsoft-wins-patents-for-humanity-award-for-infer-net-from-uspto/ ↩

8. Krill, Paul (October 9, 2018). "Microsoft open-sources Infer.Net model-based machine learning". InfoWorld. https://www.infoworld.com/article/3311994/microsoft-open-sources-infernet-machine-learning.html ↩

9. "dotnet/infer". November 3, 2020 – via GitHub. https://github.com/dotnet/infer ↩

10. "Infer.Net 2.4.0". www.nuget.org. https://www.nuget.org/packages/Infer.Net/ ↩