The Neural Process Family

Neural Processes (NPs) is a collection of interactive Jupyter/Colab notebook implementations developed by Google DeepMind, showcasing three foundational probabilistic machine learning models: Conditional Neural Processes (CNPs), Neural Processes (NPs), and Attentive Neural Processes (ANPs). These models combine the strengths of neural networks and stochastic processes, allowing for flexible function approximation with uncertainty estimation. They can learn distributions over functions from data and efficiently make predictions at new inputs with calibrated uncertainty — making them useful for few-shot learning, Bayesian regression, and meta-learning. Each notebook includes theoretical explanations, key building blocks, and executable code that runs directly in Google Colab, requiring no local setup. Implementations rely only on standard dependencies such as NumPy, TensorFlow, and Matplotlib, and provide visualizations of model performance.