Can Transformers help us perform parameter estimation of overlapping signals in gravitational wave detectors?
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| author | Papalini, Lucia De Santi, Federico Razzano, Massimiliano Heng, Ik Siong Cuoco, Elena |
| author_facet | Papalini, Lucia De Santi, Federico Razzano, Massimiliano Heng, Ik Siong Cuoco, Elena |
| contents | Overlapping signals represent one of the major data analysis challenges in next-generation gravitational wave detectors. We leverage Transformers and Normalizing Flows, state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms, to address the parameter estimation of overlapping binary black hole mergers in the Einstein Telescope (ET). Our proposed model combines a Transformer-based "Knowledge Extractor Neural Network" (KENN) with a Normalizing Flow (HYPERION) to perform rapid and unbiased inference over multiple overlapping black hole binary events. The choice of architecture leverages the strength of Transformers in capturing complex and long-range temporal structures in the strain time series data, while Normalizing Flows provide a powerful framework to sample posterior distributions. We demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of our model over simulated gravitational wave signals, showing that it maintains the same level of accuracy regardless of the correlation level in the data. Moreover our model provides estimates of chirp mass and coalescence times within <10-20% from the true simulated value. The results obtained are promising and show how this approach might represent a first step toward a deep-learning based inference pipeline for ET and other future gravitational wave detectors. |
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| spellingShingle | Can Transformers help us perform parameter estimation of overlapping signals in gravitational wave detectors? Papalini, Lucia De Santi, Federico Razzano, Massimiliano Heng, Ik Siong Cuoco, Elena General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Overlapping signals represent one of the major data analysis challenges in next-generation gravitational wave detectors. We leverage Transformers and Normalizing Flows, state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms, to address the parameter estimation of overlapping binary black hole mergers in the Einstein Telescope (ET). Our proposed model combines a Transformer-based "Knowledge Extractor Neural Network" (KENN) with a Normalizing Flow (HYPERION) to perform rapid and unbiased inference over multiple overlapping black hole binary events. The choice of architecture leverages the strength of Transformers in capturing complex and long-range temporal structures in the strain time series data, while Normalizing Flows provide a powerful framework to sample posterior distributions. We demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of our model over simulated gravitational wave signals, showing that it maintains the same level of accuracy regardless of the correlation level in the data. Moreover our model provides estimates of chirp mass and coalescence times within <10-20% from the true simulated value. The results obtained are promising and show how this approach might represent a first step toward a deep-learning based inference pipeline for ET and other future gravitational wave detectors. |
| title | Can Transformers help us perform parameter estimation of overlapping signals in gravitational wave detectors? |
| topic | General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.02773 |