Summary of Hybrid Summary Statistics, by T. Lucas Makinen et al.
Hybrid Summary Statistics
by T. Lucas Makinen, Ce Sui, Benjamin D. Wandelt, Natalia Porqueres, Alan Heavens
First submitted to arxiv on: 10 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
- Secondary: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); Information Theory (cs.IT); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed method enhances simulation-based inference by capturing high-information posteriors from sparsely sampled training sets in physical inference problems. By augmenting traditional summary statistics with neural network outputs, mutual information is maximized, leading to improved information extraction and robust inference in low-data settings. The approach combines two loss formalisms and demonstrates its effectiveness on two cosmological datasets. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper finds a way to make sure that our simulations are accurate by using a combination of old methods and new neural networks. By adding the neural network outputs to the traditional statistics, we can get more information from our data. This is useful when we don’t have much data to start with. The method works well on two examples related to studying the universe. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Inference » Neural network
