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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 105, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.105.063529
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- NASA ATP [NNH17ZDA001N]
- Center for Particle Cosmology
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We present a method to extract parameter combinations constrained by data from posterior distributions using machine-learning models. The method can handle non-Gaussian distributions and is independent of the parameter basis. We test the method on different surveys and successfully estimate the Hubble constant.
We present methods to rigorously extract parameter combinations that are constrained by data from posterior distributions. The standard approach uses linear methods that apply to Gaussian distributions. We show the limitations of the linear methods for current surveys and develop nonlinear methods that can be used with non-Gaussian distributions and are independent of the parameter basis. These are made possible by the use of machine-learning models, normalizing flows, to learn posterior distributions from their samples. These models allow us to obtain the local covariance of the posterior at all positions in parameter space and use its inverse, the Fisher matrix, as a local metric over parameter space. The posterior distribution can then be nonlinearly decomposed into the leading constrained parameter combinations via parallel transport in the metric space. We test our methods on two non-Gaussian, benchmark examples and then apply them to the parameter posteriors of the Dark Energy Survey and Planck CMB lensing. We illustrate how our method automatically learns the survey-specific, best constrained effective amplitude parameter S8 for cosmic shear alone, cosmic shear and galaxy clustering, and CMB lensing. We also identify constrained parameter combinations in the full parameter space, and as an application we estimate the Hubble constant H0 from large-structure data alone.
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