Book ; Online: Optimizing Likelihood-free Inference using Self-supervised Neural Symmetry Embeddings
2023
Abstract: Likelihood-free inference is quickly emerging as a powerful tool to perform fast/effective parameter estimation. We demonstrate a technique of optimizing likelihood-free inference to make it even faster by marginalizing symmetries in a physical problem. ... ...
| Abstract | Likelihood-free inference is quickly emerging as a powerful tool to perform fast/effective parameter estimation. We demonstrate a technique of optimizing likelihood-free inference to make it even faster by marginalizing symmetries in a physical problem. In this approach, physical symmetries, for example, time-translation are learned using joint-embedding via self-supervised learning with symmetry data augmentations. Subsequently, parameter inference is performed using a normalizing flow where the embedding network is used to summarize the data before conditioning the parameters. We present this approach on two simple physical problems and we show faster convergence in a smaller number of parameters compared to a normalizing flow that does not use a pre-trained symmetry-informed representation. Comment: Accepted for Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences Workshop (submission 69) at NeurIPS 2023; for codes, see https://github.com/ML4GW/summer-projects-2023/blob/neurips-2023/symmetry-informed-flows/README.md |
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| Keywords | Computer Science - Machine Learning ; Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics |
| Subject code | 531 |
| Publishing date | 2023-12-11 |
| Publishing country | us |
| Document type | Book ; Online |
| Database | BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection) |
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