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In the procedure of constraining the cosmological parameters with the observational Hubble data and the type Ia supernova data, the combination of Masked Autoregressive Flow and Denoising Autoencoder can perform a good result. The above…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-22 Jie-Feng Chen , Yu-Chen Wang , Tingting Zhang , Tong-Jie Zhang

Type Ia supernovae (SNae Ia), standardisable candles that allow tracing the expansion history of the Universe, are instrumental in constraining cosmological parameters, particularly dark energy. State-of-the-art likelihood-based analyses…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-14 Konstantin Karchev , Roberto Trotta , Christoph Weniger

Many statistical models in cosmology can be simulated forwards but have intractable likelihood functions. Likelihood-free inference methods allow us to perform Bayesian inference from these models using only forward simulations, free from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-11 Justin Alsing , Benjamin Wandelt , Stephen Feeney

In this work, we propose a new nonparametric approach for reconstructing a function from observational data using an Artificial Neural Network (ANN), which has no assumptions about the data and is a completely data-driven approach. We test…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-26 Guo-Jian Wang , Xiao-Jiao Ma , Si-Yao Li , Jun-Qing Xia

In many cosmological inference problems, the likelihood (the probability of the observed data as a function of the unknown parameters) is unknown or intractable. This necessitates approximations and assumptions, which can lead to incorrect…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-02 Niall Jeffrey , Justin Alsing , François Lanusse

This paper builds upon ParamANN's novel approach (S. Pal & R. Saha 2024) of using ANNs to infer cosmological density parameters by determining optimal architecture for varying synthetic Hubble data SNRs in estimating the density parameters…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-16 Zijian Jin , Jaehyon Rhee

Cosmological inference becomes increasingly difficult when complex data-generating processes cannot be modeled by simple probability distributions. With the ever-increasing size of data sets in cosmology, there is increasing burden placed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Anja Weyant , Chad Schafer , W. Michael Wood-Vasey

We use the redshift Hubble parameter $H(z)$ data derived from relative galaxy ages, distant type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), the Baryonic Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) peak, and the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) shift parameter data, to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-27 Tian Lan , Yan Gong , Hao-Yi Wan , Tong-Jie Zhang

We use the Radial Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (RBAO) measurements, distant type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), the observational $H(z)$ data (OHD) and the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) shift parameter data to constrain cosmological parameters…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Zhong-Xu Zhai , Hao-Yi Wan , Tong-Jie Zhang

We apply two methods, namely the Gaussian processes and the non-parametric smoothing procedure, to reconstruct the Hubble parameter $H(z)$ as a function of redshift from 15 measurements of the expansion rate obtained from age estimates of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-02 Zhengxiang Li , J. E. Gonzalez , Hongwei Yu , Zong-Hong Zhu , J. S. Alcaniz

In this work, we achieve the determination of the cosmic curvature $\Omega_K$ in a cosmological model-independent way, by using the Hubble parameter measurements $H(z)$ and type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). In our analysis, two nonlinear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-26 Guo-Jian Wang , Xiao-Jiao Ma , Jun-Qing Xia

In this work, we propose using the mixture density network (MDN) to estimate cosmological parameters. We test the MDN method by constraining parameters of the $\Lambda$CDM and $w$CDM models using Type Ia supernovae and the power spectra of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-05 Guo-Jian Wang , Cheng Cheng , Yin-Zhe Ma , Jun-Qing Xia

The Hubble constant ($H_0$) is one of the fundamental parameters in cosmology, but there is a heated debate around the $>$4$\sigma$ tension between the local Cepheid distance ladder and the early Universe measurements. Strongly lensed Type…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 S. Huber , S. H. Suyu , D. Ghoshdastidar , S. Taubenberger , V. Bonvin , J. H. H. Chan , M. Kromer , U. M. Noebauer , S. A. Sim , L. Leal-Taixé

In previous works, we proposed to estimate cosmological parameters with the artificial neural network (ANN) and the mixture density network (MDN). In this work, we propose an improved method called the mixture neural network (MNN) to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-23 Guo-Jian Wang , Cheng Cheng , Yin-Zhe Ma , Jun-Qing Xia , Amare Abebe , Aroonkumar Beesham

This paper introduces a new approach to reconstruct cosmological functions using artificial neural networks based on observational measurements with minimal theoretical and statistical assumptions. By using neural networks, we can generate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-24 Isidro Gómez-Vargas , Ricardo Medel Esquivel , Ricardo García-Salcedo , J. Alberto Vázquez

Likelihood-free inference provides a rigorous approach to preform Bayesian analysis using forward simulations only. The main advantage of likelihood-free methods is its ability to account for complex physical processes and observational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 Sut-Ieng Tam , Keiichi Umetsu , Adam Amara

We present CosmicANNEstimator (Cosmological Parameters Artificial Neural Network Estimator), a machine learning approach for constraining cosmological parameters within the Lambda Cold Dark Matter ($\Lambda$CDM) framework. Our methodology…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-07 Ashly Joseph , Albin Joseph , Christina Terese Joseph , John Paul Martin , Sunil Kumar PV , Sarthak Giri

Compressing large data sets to a manageable number of summaries that are informative about the underlying parameters vastly simplifies both frequentist and Bayesian inference. When only simulations are available, these summaries are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-06 Tom Charnock , Guilhem Lavaux , Benjamin D. Wandelt

Likelihood-free inference provides a framework for performing rigorous Bayesian inference using only forward simulations, properly accounting for all physical and observational effects that can be successfully included in the simulations.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-24 Justin Alsing , Tom Charnock , Stephen Feeney , Benjamin Wandelt

Sampling-based inference techniques are central to modern cosmological data analysis; these methods, however, scale poorly with dimensionality and typically require approximate or intractable likelihoods. In this paper we describe how…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-09 Alex Cole , Benjamin Kurt Miller , Samuel J. Witte , Maxwell X. Cai , Meiert W. Grootes , Francesco Nattino , Christoph Weniger
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