English
Related papers

Related papers: Learn-As-You-Go Acceleration of Cosmological Param…

200 papers

Cosmological parameter estimation is traditionally performed in the Bayesian context. By adopting an "agnostic" statistical point of view, we show the interest of confronting the Bayesian results to a frequentist approach based on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-12 S. Henrot-Versillé , O. Perdereau , S. Plaszczynski , B. Rouillé d'Orfeuil , M. Spinelli , M. Tristram

Emulator embedded neural networks, which are a type of physics informed neural network, leverage multi-fidelity data sources for efficient design exploration of aerospace engineering systems. Multiple realizations of the neural network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Atticus Beachy , Harok Bae , Jose Camberos , Ramana Grandhi

We present a fast, accurate, robust and flexible method of accelerating parameter estimation. This algorithm, called Pico, can compute the CMB power spectrum and matter transfer function as well as any computationally expensive likelihoods…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 William A. Fendt , Benjamin D. Wandelt

We introduce an emulator approach to predict the non-linear matter power spectrum for broad classes of beyond-$\Lambda$CDM cosmologies, using only a suite of $\Lambda$CDM $N$-body simulations. By including a range of suitably modified…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-02 Benjamin Giblin , Matteo Cataneo , Ben Moews , Catherine Heymans

High-fidelity physics simulations are powerful tools in the design and optimization of charged particle accelerators. However, the computational burden of these simulations often limits their use in practice for design optimization and…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2020-04-15 Auralee Edelen , Nicole Neveu , Yannick Huber , Mattias Frey , Christopher Mayes , Andreas Adelmann

$N$-body simulations are computationally expensive, so machine-learning (ML)-based emulation techniques have emerged as a way to increase their speed. Although fast, surrogate models have limited trustworthiness due to potentially…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-26 Deaglan J. Bartlett , Marco Chiarenza , Ludvig Doeser , Florent Leclercq

Cosmological parameters can be measured by comparing peculiar velocities with those predicted from a galaxy density field. Previous work has tested the accuracy of this approach with N-body simulations, but generally on idealised mock…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-27 Amber M. Hollinger , Michael J. Hudson

Cosmological emulation of observables such as the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) spectra and matter power spectra have become increasingly common in recent years because of the potential for saving computation time in connection with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-22 Luca Janken , Steen Hannestad , Thomas Tram , Andreas Nygaard

Particle-mesh simulations trade small-scale accuracy for speed compared to traditional, computationally expensive N-body codes in cosmological simulations. In this work, we show how a data-driven model could be used to learn an effective…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-01 Nicolas Payot , Pablo Lemos , Laurence Perreault-Levasseur , Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro , Chirag Modi , Yashar Hezaveh

Many applications require that we learn the parameters of a model from data. EM is a method used to learn the parameters of probabilistic models for which the data for some of the variables in the models is either missing or hidden. There…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-01-30 Luis E. Ortiz , Leslie Pack Kaelbling

In this paper, we propose a Gaussian Process (GP) emulator for the calculation of a) tomographic weak lensing band-power spectra, and b) coefficients of summary data massively compressed with the MOPED algorithm. In the former case…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-29 Arrykrishna Mootoovaloo , Alan F. Heavens , Andrew H. Jaffe , Florent Leclercq

We propose an efficient Bayesian MCMC algorithm for estimating cosmological parameters from CMB data without use of likelihood approximations. It builds on a previously developed Gibbs sampling framework that allows for exploration of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-29 Benjamin Racine , Jeffrey B. Jewell , Hans Kristian K. Eriksen , Ingunn K. Wehus

Cosmological probes pose an inverse problem where the measurement result is obtained through observations, and the objective is to infer values of model parameters which characterize the underlying physical system -- our Universe. Modern…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-21 Timur Takhtaganov , Zarija Lukic , Juliane Mueller , Dmitriy Morozov

Recent advances in deep learning have shown that uncertainty estimation is becoming increasingly important in applications such as medical imaging, natural language processing, and autonomous systems. However, accurately quantifying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Uddeshya Upadhyay , Jae Myung Kim , Cordelia Schmidt , Bernhard Schölkopf , Zeynep Akata

Obtaining the set of cosmological parameters consistent with observational data is an important exercise in current cosmological research. It involves finding the global maximum of the likelihood function in the multi-dimensional parameter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-03 Jayanti Prasad , Tarun Souradeep

We derive constraints on a coupled quintessence model with pure momentum exchange from the public $\sim$1000 deg$^2$ cosmic shear measurements from the Kilo-Degree Survey and the $\it{Planck}$ 2018 Cosmic Microwave Background data. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-16 A. Spurio Mancini , A. Pourtsidou

We introduce Preconditioned Monte Carlo (PMC), a novel Monte Carlo method for Bayesian inference that facilitates efficient sampling of probability distributions with non-trivial geometry. PMC utilises a Normalising Flow (NF) in order to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-24 Minas Karamanis , Florian Beutler , John A. Peacock , David Nabergoj , Uros Seljak

Machine learning enables powerful cosmological inference but typically requires many high-fidelity simulations covering many cosmological models. Transfer learning offers a way to reduce the simulation cost by reusing knowledge across…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-23 Veena Krishnaraj , Adrian E. Bayer , Christian Kragh Jespersen , Peter Melchior

We present a method for ultra-fast confrontation of the WMAP cosmic microwave background observations with theoretical models, implemented as a publicly available software package called CMBfit, useful for anyone wishing to measure…

Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-07 Havard B. Sandvik , Max Tegmark , Xiaomin Wang , Matias Zaldarriaga

We present a novel method of robust probabilistic cosmic web particle classification in three dimensions using a supervised machine learning algorithm. Training data was generated using a simplified $\Lambda$CDM toy model with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-10 Brandon Buncher , Matias Carrasco Kind