Cosmological Parameter Estimation with Sequential Linear Simulation-based Inference
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| author | Mediato-Diaz, Nicolas Handley, Will |
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| contents | We develop the framework of Linear Simulation-based Inference (LSBI), an application of simulation-based inference where the likelihood is approximated by a Gaussian linear function of its parameters. We obtain analytical expressions for the posterior distributions of hyper-parameters of the linear likelihood in terms of samples drawn from a simulator, for both uniform and conjugate priors. This method is applied sequentially to several toy-models and tested on emulated datasets for the Cosmic Microwave Background temperature power spectrum. We find that convergence is achieved after four or five rounds of $\mathcal{O}(10^4)$ simulations, which is competitive with state-of-the-art neural density estimation methods. Therefore, we demonstrate that it is possible to obtain significant information gain and generate posteriors that agree with the underlying parameters while maintaining explainability and intellectual oversight. |
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| spellingShingle | Cosmological Parameter Estimation with Sequential Linear Simulation-based Inference Mediato-Diaz, Nicolas Handley, Will Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability Machine Learning We develop the framework of Linear Simulation-based Inference (LSBI), an application of simulation-based inference where the likelihood is approximated by a Gaussian linear function of its parameters. We obtain analytical expressions for the posterior distributions of hyper-parameters of the linear likelihood in terms of samples drawn from a simulator, for both uniform and conjugate priors. This method is applied sequentially to several toy-models and tested on emulated datasets for the Cosmic Microwave Background temperature power spectrum. We find that convergence is achieved after four or five rounds of $\mathcal{O}(10^4)$ simulations, which is competitive with state-of-the-art neural density estimation methods. Therefore, we demonstrate that it is possible to obtain significant information gain and generate posteriors that agree with the underlying parameters while maintaining explainability and intellectual oversight. |
| title | Cosmological Parameter Estimation with Sequential Linear Simulation-based Inference |
| topic | Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.03921 |