They are used heavily in ML, how do you think VAEs work?
The white elephants are mostly the DSLs/frameworks that would have better off been torch/tensorflow extensions.
The white elephants are mostly the DSLs/frameworks that would have better off been torch/tensorflow extensions.
PPLs are useful when the data generation process is not easily represented by something like a simple multivariate Gaussian, etc. You find many good examples academic research, e.g. epidemiology.