AttributeError: module 'tensorflow_probability' has no attribute 'stats'

Question

I have a Problem with tensorflow-probability, I want to calculate the variance of my tensor using

tfp.stats.variance(E)

But I am always getting the following error message:

AttributeError: module 'tensorflow_probability' has no attribute 'stats'

I have searched for hours through the internet and the forum, but nothing helped me, so I am asking the question hoping someone can help me. I am using the tensorflow version: 2.13.0.

And I am using python on a MacBook and visual studio code

When I run pip3 list I get the following:

tensorflow                    2.13.0
tensorflow-estimator          2.13.0
tensorflow-io-gcs-filesystem  0.33.0
tensorflow-probability        0.20.1
tfp-nightly                   0.22.0.dev20230925

Thank you in advance

Best wishes

I have searched for hours through the internet and the forum, but nothing helped me, so I am asking the question hoping someone can help me.

Answer 1

Can you try Installing the latest version of tfp. I tried with updated version in my local and its working good

tensorboard                  2.13.0
tensorboard-data-server      0.7.1
tensorflow                   2.13.0
tensorflow-estimator         2.13.0
tensorflow-intel             2.13.0
tensorflow-io-gcs-filesystem 0.31.0
tensorflow-probability       0.21.0

Install pip install --user tensorflow

Install tfp pip install --upgrade tensorflow-probability

To keep it simple, I tried the below code

import os
import tensorflow as tf
import tensorflow_probability as tfp

os.environ['TF_CPP_MIN_LOG_LEVEL'] = '2'

E = tf.constant([1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0])

variance = tfp.stats.variance(E)

print(variance)

Resulted Output :

tf.Tensor(2.0, shape=(), dtype=float32)

Hope this helps.