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Expert prior elicitation plays a critical role in Bayesian analysis by enabling the specification of prior distributions that reflect domain knowledge. However, expert knowledge often refers to observable quantities rather than directly to…

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aeon is a unified Python 3 library for all machine learning tasks involving time series. The package contains modules for time series forecasting, classification, extrinsic regression and clustering, as well as a variety of utilities,…

This paper introduces the Bayesian Inference Engine (BIE), a general parallel, optimised software package for parameter inference and model selection. This package is motivated by the analysis needs of modern astronomical surveys and the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Martin D. Weinberg

Bayesian inference is central to modern cosmology. While parameter estimation is achievable with unnormalised posteriors traditionally obtained via MCMC methods, comprehensive model comparison and tension quantification require Bayesian…

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Recent advances in computational methods for designing biological sequences have sparked the development of metrics to evaluate these methods performance in terms of the fidelity of the designed sequences to a target distribution and their…

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved impressive progress across a wide range of tasks, yet their heavy reliance on English-centric training data leads to significant performance degradation in non-English languages. While existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Hamin Koo , Jaehyung Kim

In this paper, we introduce eipy--an open-source Python package for developing effective, multi-modal heterogeneous ensembles for classification. eipy simultaneously provides both a rigorous, and user-friendly framework for comparing and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Jamie J. R. Bennett , Aviad Susman , Yan Chak Li , Gaurav Pandey

We present the public release of the Bayesian sampling algorithm for cosmology, CosmoPMC (Cosmology Population Monte Carlo). CosmoPMC explores the parameter space of various cosmological probes, and also provides a robust estimate of the…

We present an open source Python 3 library aimed at practitioners of molecular simulation, especially Monte Carlo simulation. The aims of the library are to facilitate the generation of simulation data for a wide range of problems; and to…

Active inference is an account of cognition and behavior in complex systems which brings together action, perception, and learning under the theoretical mantle of Bayesian inference. Active inference has seen growing applications in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Conor Heins , Beren Millidge , Daphne Demekas , Brennan Klein , Karl Friston , Iain Couzin , Alexander Tschantz

Deep ensembles (DE) have been successful in improving model performance by learning diverse members via the stochasticity of random initialization. While recent works have attempted to promote further diversity in DE via hyperparameters or…

Constraint Programming (CP) is a useful technology for modeling and solving combinatorial constrained problems. On the one hand, on can use a library like PyCSP3 for easily modeling problems arising in various application fields (e.g.,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Christophe Lecoutre

We present further development and the first public release of our multimodal nested sampling algorithm, called MultiNest. This Bayesian inference tool calculates the evidence, with an associated error estimate, and produces posterior…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-28 F. Feroz , M. P. Hobson , M. Bridges

The Python Sky Model (PySM) is a Python package used by Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiments to simulate maps, in HEALPix pixelization, of the various diffuse astrophysical components of Galactic emission relevant at CMB…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-03 Andrea Zonca , Ben Thorne , Nicoletta Krachmalnicoff , Julian Borrill

Inverse problems defined on the sphere arise in many fields, including seismology and cosmology where problems are defined on the globe and the cosmic sphere. These are generally high-dimensional and computationally very complex and, as a…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2023-01-05 Augustin Marignier , Jason D. McEwen , Ana M. G. Ferreira , Thomas D. Kitching

JPARSEC is a Java library initially developed to implement a complete set of algorithms to compute ephemerides. The project started twelve years ago and soon evolved to also cover astrophysical modelling and outreach. JPARSEC itself…

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In this paper, we present Spatialize, an open-source library that implements ensemble spatial interpolation, a novel method that combines the simplicity of basic interpolation methods with the power of classical geostatistical tools, like…

ergodicity is an open-source Python library for computational work on stochastic dynamics, with particular emphasis on non-ergodicity, time-average behavior, heavy-tailed processes, and decision making under uncertainty. The package brings…

Computation · Statistics 2026-05-14 Ihor Kendiukhov

This paper summarizes the development of mVEM, a MATLAB software package containing efficient and easy-following codes for various virtual element methods (VEMs) published in the literature. We explain in detail the numerical implementation…

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The Montage image mosaic engine has found wide applicability in astronomy research, integration into processing environments, and is an examplar application for the development of advanced cyber-infrastructure. It is written in C to provide…

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