用贝叶斯归一化流模拟致密双星演化,量化并消除模拟不确定性。
Emulating compact binary population synthesis simulations with uncertainty quantification and model comparison using Bayesian normalizing flows
- 基于贝叶斯神经网络构建条件密度估计器,实现不确定性量化。
- 在黑洞双星常见包层演化模拟中验证了预测精度与校准性。
- 适合需要高置信度推断的引力波天体物理研究者使用。
致密双星并合(CBC)的群体合成模拟对于从引力波(GW)观测集合中提取天体物理信息至关重要。然而,在密集初始条件网格下进行真实模拟成本高昂。归一化流可模拟群体合成运行,支持基于模拟的推断和稀有子群体特征预测的数据增强。但流模型预测常伴随不确定性,尤其在训练数据稀疏时。本文提出一种方法,通过贝叶斯归一化流(Bayesian Normalizing Flow)量化并积分这些不确定性。该方法基于密度估计器自然对应的精确似然函数,结合合适先验采样流参数后验分布,实现不确定性量化与边缘化。我们在通过常见包层演化形成的双黑洞群体模拟中,展示了所估不确定性在准确性、校准性、推断效果及数据增强方面的表现。该方法可用于未来不断增长的引力波目录中的基于模拟的推断,以及当前最先进的双星演化模拟器,且已对模型与数据不确定性进行边缘化。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Population synthesis simulations of compact binary coalescences~(CBCs) play a crucial role in extracting astrophysical insights from an ensemble of gravitational wave~(GW) observations. However, realistic simulations can be costly to implement for a dense grid of initial conditions. Normalizing flows can emulate population synthesis runs to enable simulation-based inference from observed catalogs and data augmentation for feature prediction in rarely synthesizable sub-populations. However, flow predictions can be wrought with uncertainties, especially for sparse training sets. In this work, we develop a method for quantifying and marginalizing uncertainties in the emulators by implementing the Bayesian Normalizing flow, a conditional density estimator constructed from Bayesian neural networks. Using the exact likelihood function naturally associated with density estimators, we sample the posterior distribution of flow parameters with suitably chosen priors to quantify and marginalize over flow uncertainties. We demonstrate the accuracy, calibration, inference, and data-augmentation impacts of the estimated uncertainties for simulations of binary black hole populations formed through common envelope evolution. We outline the applications of the proposed methodology in the context of simulation-based inference from growing GW catalogs and feature prediction, with state-of-the-art binary evolution simulators, now marginalized over model and data uncertainties.
Thank you to arXiv for use of its open access interoperability. PaperDance 不是 arXiv 官方产品;中文卡片由大模型生成,请以原文为准。