astro-sbi

material for astro projects using a simulation based inference framework

• sbi-simulator.ipynb: full pipeline (simulator + neural density estimator with flows)
• sbi-data.ipynb: takes in input pre-generated data and performs neural density estimation with flows

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Useful links

SBI -- A toolkit for simulation-based inference

https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.09114

Neural Density Estimation and Likelihood-free Inference (PhD thesis by G. Papamakarios)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.13233

Blog super didattico (per studenti)

https://astroautomata.com/blog/simulation-based-inference/

DIGS: Deep Inference of Galaxy Spectra with Neural Posterior Estimation

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2211.09126

SimBIG: Field-level Simulation-Based Inference of Galaxy Clustering

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.15256

A forward modeling approach to analyzing galaxy clustering with SimBIG

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2211.00723

Deriving the star formation histories of galaxies from spectra with simulation-based inference

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.18661

Simulation-Based Inference with Neural Posterior Estimation applied to X-ray spectral fitting

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.06061v1

Simulation-based Inference for Exoplanet Atmospheric Retrieval: Insights from winning the Ariel Data Challenge 2023 using Normalizing Flows

https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.09337

CONSTRAINING COSMOLOGY WITH SIMULATION-BASED INFERENCE AND OPTICAL GALAXY CLUSTER ABUNDANCE

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2409.20507

The frontier of simulation-based inference

https://www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.1912789117

Simulation-based inference and applications to cosmology and astrophysics

https://indico.ung.si/event/35/contributions/336/attachments/326/433/list.pdf

ASC school SBI

https://www.theorie.physik.uni-muenchen.de/activities/schools/archiv/asc_school_2022/cole_1.pdf

Kavli & UniCam conferance on astro-ml: many talks on SBI

https://www.kicc.cam.ac.uk/events/kavli-science-themed-meetings/astrostatistics-and-astro-machine-learning

SBI talk

http://events.kias.re.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/202411/files/01-Leander_Thiele_28Oct_Session3.pdf

conditional flows

https://siboehm.com/articles/19/normalizing-flow-network