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HMMBase provides a lightweight and efficient abstraction for hidden Markov models in Julia. Most HMMs libraries only support discrete (e.g. categorical) or normal distributions. In contrast HMMBase builds upon Distributions.jl to support arbitrary univariate and multivariate distributions.

The goal is to provide well-tested and fast implementations of the basic HMMs algorithms such as the forward-backward algorithm, the Viterbi algorithm, and the MLE estimator. More advanced models, such as Bayesian HMMs, can be built upon HMMBase.

## Getting Started

The package can be installed with the Julia package manager. From the Julia REPL, type ] to enter the Pkg REPL mode and run:

pkg> add HMMBase

HMMBase supports any observations distributions implementing the Distribution interface from Distributions.jl.

using Distributions, HMMBase

# Univariate continuous observations
hmm = HMM([0.9 0.1; 0.1 0.9], [Normal(0,1), Gamma(1,1)])

# Multivariate continuous observations
hmm = HMM([0.9 0.1; 0.1 0.9], [MvNormal([0.,0.],[1.,1.]), MvNormal([0.,0.],[1.,1.])])

# Univariate discrete observations
hmm = HMM([0.9 0.1; 0.1 0.9], [Categorical([0.3, 0.7]), Categorical([0.8, 0.2])])

# Multivariate discrete observations
hmm = HMM([0.9 0.1; 0.1 0.9], [Multinomial(10, [0.3, 0.7]), Multinomial(10, [0.8, 0.2])])

See the Manual section for more details on the models and algorithms, or jump directly to the Examples.

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