The sampling-algorithm cybernetics conjecture

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Consider the subcategory of BayesLens\mathbf{BayesLens} spanned by finite-dimensional smooth manifolds, with morphisms generated under sequential and parallel composition by the generalized autoencoder and inference games. Sampling-algorithm cybernetics conjecture. Sampling algorithms, such as Markov chain Monte Carlo, should supply a corresponding category of open cybernetic systems of interest. The conjecture extends the paper's variational-Bayesian cybernetic realizations to other families of approximate inference methods, but the source does not state whether it has been proved or refuted.

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Toby St Clere Smithe, “Cyber Kittens, or Some First Steps Towards Categorical Cybernetics”, arXiv:2101.10483 (2021).

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