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| author | Makinen, T. Lucas Heavens, Alan Porqueres, Natalia Charnock, Tom Lapel, Axel Wandelt, Benjamin D. |
| author_facet | Makinen, T. Lucas Heavens, Alan Porqueres, Natalia Charnock, Tom Lapel, Axel Wandelt, Benjamin D. |
| contents | In inference problems, we often have domain knowledge which allows us to define summary statistics that capture most of the information content in a dataset. In this paper, we present a hybrid approach, where such physics-based summaries are augmented by a set of compressed neural summary statistics that are optimised to extract the extra information that is not captured by the predefined summaries. The resulting statistics are very powerful inputs to simulation-based or implicit inference of model parameters. We apply this generalisation of Information Maximising Neural Networks (IMNNs) to parameter constraints from tomographic weak gravitational lensing convergence maps to find summary statistics that are explicitly optimised to complement angular power spectrum estimates. We study several dark matter simulation resolutions in low- and high-noise regimes. We show that i) the information-update formalism extracts at least $3\times$ and up to $8\times$ as much information as the angular power spectrum in all noise regimes, ii) the network summaries are highly complementary to existing 2-point summaries, and iii) our formalism allows for networks with smaller, physically-informed architectures to match much larger regression networks with far fewer simulations needed to obtain asymptotically optimal inference. |
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| spellingShingle | Hybrid summary statistics: neural weak lensing inference beyond the power spectrum Makinen, T. Lucas Heavens, Alan Porqueres, Natalia Charnock, Tom Lapel, Axel Wandelt, Benjamin D. Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Machine Learning Computational Physics Other Statistics In inference problems, we often have domain knowledge which allows us to define summary statistics that capture most of the information content in a dataset. In this paper, we present a hybrid approach, where such physics-based summaries are augmented by a set of compressed neural summary statistics that are optimised to extract the extra information that is not captured by the predefined summaries. The resulting statistics are very powerful inputs to simulation-based or implicit inference of model parameters. We apply this generalisation of Information Maximising Neural Networks (IMNNs) to parameter constraints from tomographic weak gravitational lensing convergence maps to find summary statistics that are explicitly optimised to complement angular power spectrum estimates. We study several dark matter simulation resolutions in low- and high-noise regimes. We show that i) the information-update formalism extracts at least $3\times$ and up to $8\times$ as much information as the angular power spectrum in all noise regimes, ii) the network summaries are highly complementary to existing 2-point summaries, and iii) our formalism allows for networks with smaller, physically-informed architectures to match much larger regression networks with far fewer simulations needed to obtain asymptotically optimal inference. |
| title | Hybrid summary statistics: neural weak lensing inference beyond the power spectrum |
| topic | Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Machine Learning Computational Physics Other Statistics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.18909 |