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State-space models have been widely used to model the dynamics of communicable diseases in populations of interest by fitting to time-series data. Particle filters have enabled these models to incorporate stochasticity and so can better…

Applications · Statistics 2022-05-17 Conor Rosato , John Harris , Jasmina Panovska-Griffiths , Simon Maskell

A well-tested and validated Gibbs sampling code, that performs component separation and CMB power spectrum estimation, was applied to the {\it WMAP} 5-yr data. Using a simple model consisting of CMB, noise, monopoles and dipoles, a ``per…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-05 C. Dickinson , H. K. Eriksen , A. J. Banday , J. B. Jewell , K. M. Gorski , G. Huey , C. R. Lawrence , I. J. O'Dwyer , B. D. Wandelt

We present a new blind formulation of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) inference problem. The approach relies on a phenomenological model of the multi-frequency microwave sky without the need for physical models of the individual…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-30 Flavien Vansyngel , Benjamin D. Wandelt , Jean-François Cardoso , Karim Benabed

We describe a sampling method to estimate the polarized CMB signal from observed maps of the sky. We use a Metropolis-within-Gibbs algorithm to estimate the polarized CMB map, containing Q and U Stokes parameters at each pixel, and its…

We propose a scalable kinetic Langevin dynamics algorithm for sampling parameter spaces of big data and AI applications. Our scheme combines a symmetric forward/backward sweep over minibatches with a symmetric discretization of Langevin…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-12 Daniel Paulin , Peter A. Whalley , Neil K. Chada , Benedict Leimkuhler

This paper addresses the problem of separating spectral sources which are linearly mixed with unknown proportions. The main difficulty of the problem is to ensure the full additivity (sum-to-one) of the mixing coefficients and…

Methodology · Statistics 2010-08-30 Nicolas Dobigeon , Said Moussaoui , Jean-Yves Tourneret , Cedric Carteret

Bayesian nonparametric (BNP) models provide elegant methods for discovering underlying latent features within a data set, but inference in such models can be slow. We exploit the fact that completely random measures, which commonly used…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-17 Avinava Dubey , Michael Minyi Zhang , Eric P. Xing , Sinead A. Williamson

We discuss an approach to the component separation of microwave, multi-frequency sky maps as those typically produced from Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) Anisotropy data sets. The algorithm is based on the two step, parametric,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 R. Stompor , S. Leach , F. Stivoli , C. Baccigalupi

Gaussian processes (GPs) have been extensively utilized as nonparametric models for component separation in 21 cm data analyses. This exploits the distinct spectral behavior of the cosmological and foreground signals, which are modeled…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-13 Kangning Diao , Richard D. P. Grumitt , Yi Mao

We explore a novel analysis framework for parameter inference with large-scale CMB polarization data. Our method uses simulation-based inference combined with the needlet internal linear combination (NILC) algorithm and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-19 Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden , Kristen Surrao , Adrian E. Bayer , Alexandre E. Adler , Nadia Dachlythra , Susanna Azzoni , J. Colin Hill

The Planck satellite will map the full sky at nine frequencies from 30 to 857 GHz. The CMB intensity and polarization that are its prime targets are contaminated by foreground emission. The goal of this paper is to compare proposed methods…

Our ability to extract the maximal amount of information from future observations at gigahertz frequencies depends on our ability to separate the underlying cosmic microwave background (CMB) from galactic and extragalactic foregrounds. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Jewell , C. R. Lawrence , S. Levin

We present a novel approach to derive constraints on neutrino masses from cosmological data, while taking into account our ignorance of the neutrino mass ordering. We derive constraints from a combination of current and future cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-02 Martina Gerbino , Massimiliano Lattanzi , Olga Mena , Katherine Freese

Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) is a Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm that avoids the random walk behavior and sensitivity to correlated parameters that plague many MCMC methods by taking a series of steps informed by first-order…

Computation · Statistics 2015-03-19 Matthew D. Hoffman , Andrew Gelman

We investigate the performance of the parametric Maximum Likelihood component separation method in the context of the CMB B-mode signal detection and its characterization by small-scale CMB suborbital experiments. We consider…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-09 F. Stivoli , J. Grain , S. M. Leach , M. Tristram , C. Baccigalupi , R. Stompor

We present a novel method for Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) foreground removal based on deep learning techniques. This method employs a Transformer model, referred to as \texttt{TCMB}, which is specifically designed to effectively…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-09 Ye-Peng Yan , Si-Yu Li , Yang Liu , Jun-Qing Xia , Hong Li

There is substantial empirical evidence about the success of dynamic implementations of Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC), such as the No U-Turn Sampler (NUTS), in many challenging inference problems but theoretical results about their behavior…

Computation · Statistics 2024-10-21 Alain Durmus , Samuel Gruffaz , Miika Kailas , Eero Saksman , Matti Vihola

Characterizing the sub-mm Galactic emission has become increasingly critical especially in identifying and removing its polarized contribution from the one emitted by the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). In this work, we present a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-19 Giuseppe Puglisi , Gueorgui Mihaylov , Georgia V. Panopoulou , Davide Poletti , Josquin Errard , Paola A. Puglisi , Giacomo Vianello

This paper presents an unsupervised Bayesian algorithm for hyperspectral image unmixing accounting for endmember variability. The pixels are modeled by a linear combination of endmembers weighted by their corresponding abundances. However,…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-10-28 Abderrahim Halimi , Nicolas Dobigeon , Jean-Yves Tourneret

We present a new, semi-analytic framework for estimating the level of residuals present in CMB maps derived from multi-frequency Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data and forecasting their impact on cosmological parameters. The data are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-02 Radek Stompor , Josquin Errard , Davide Poletti