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Workshop: NeurIPS 2024 Workshop: Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences
Accelerated Bayesian parameter estimation and model selection for gravitational waves with normalizing flows
Alicja Polanska · Thibeau Wouters · Peter Pang · Kaze W. K. Wong · Jason McEwen
Abstract:
We present an accelerated pipeline, based on high-performance computing techniques and normalizing flows, for joint Bayesian parameter estimation and model selection and demonstrate its efficiency in gravitational wave astrophysics. We integrate the Jim inference toolkit, a normalizing flow-enhanced Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampler, with the learned harmonic mean estimator. Our Bayesian evidence estimates are consistent with traditional nested sampling techniques while reducing the computational cost by factors of $5\times$ and $15\times$ for $4$-dimensional and $11$-dimensional gravitational wave inference problems, respectively. Our code is available in well-tested and thoroughly documented open-source packages, ensuring accessibility and reproducibility for the wider research community.
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