Accelerating Bayesian Sampling for Massive Black Hole Binaries with Prior Constraints from Conditional Variational Autoencoder

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Auteurs principaux: Sun, Hui, Wang, He, He, Jibo
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author Sun, Hui
Wang, He
He, Jibo
author_facet Sun, Hui
Wang, He
He, Jibo
contents A Conditional Variational Autoencoder (CVAE) model is employed for parameter inference on gravitational waves (GW) signals of massive black hole binaries, considering joint observations with a network of three space-based GW detectors. Our experiments show that the trained CVAE model can estimate the posterior distribution of source parameters in approximately one second, while the standard Bayesian sampling method, utilizing parallel computation across 16 CPU cores, takes an average of 20 hours for a GW signal instance. However, the sampling distributions from CVAE exhibit lighter tails, appearing broader when compared to the standard Bayesian sampling results. By using CVAE results to constrain the prior range for Bayesian sampling, the sampling time is reduced by a factor of $\sim$6 while maintaining the similar precision of the Bayesian results.
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spellingShingle Accelerating Bayesian Sampling for Massive Black Hole Binaries with Prior Constraints from Conditional Variational Autoencoder
Sun, Hui
Wang, He
He, Jibo
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
A Conditional Variational Autoencoder (CVAE) model is employed for parameter inference on gravitational waves (GW) signals of massive black hole binaries, considering joint observations with a network of three space-based GW detectors. Our experiments show that the trained CVAE model can estimate the posterior distribution of source parameters in approximately one second, while the standard Bayesian sampling method, utilizing parallel computation across 16 CPU cores, takes an average of 20 hours for a GW signal instance. However, the sampling distributions from CVAE exhibit lighter tails, appearing broader when compared to the standard Bayesian sampling results. By using CVAE results to constrain the prior range for Bayesian sampling, the sampling time is reduced by a factor of $\sim$6 while maintaining the similar precision of the Bayesian results.
title Accelerating Bayesian Sampling for Massive Black Hole Binaries with Prior Constraints from Conditional Variational Autoencoder
topic Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.09266