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Accelerated Bayesian parameter estimation and model selection for gravitational waves with normalizing flows
October 2024 • Alicja Polanska, Thibeau Wouters, P. T. H. Pang, Kaze W. K. Wong, Jason D. McEwen
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 run on $1$ GPU are consistent with traditional nested sampling techniques run on $16$ CPU cores, while …
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