http://arxiv.org/abs/2112.08571
Modern cosmological data demand modern data analysis techniques. We introduce BayOp, a new likelihood sampling and maximisation method which is based on the Bayesian Optimisation algorithm and learns a function instead of randomly sampling from it. We apply BayOp to analyse Planck data for traces of inflationary features models with global periodic modulations of the primordial power spectrum. While we do not find any new evidence for features, we demonstrate that BayOp provides an extremely efficient way of sampling likelihoods over low-to-moderate-dimensional parameter spaces, even for very complex likelihood landscapes.
J. Hamann and J. Wons
Fri, 17 Dec 21
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Comments: 27 pages, 9 figures
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