arXiv Machine Learning

Learning the Universe: Posterior Reliability of Neural Generative Models in High-Dimensional Field-Level Inference of Cosmic Initial Conditions

arXiv:2606. 10023v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate posterior estimation is central to scientific inference, as uncertainties determine what can be reliably learned from observational data.

arXiv AI
Sep 10

Field-level weak lensing cosmology with $60$ simulations using multifidelity simulation-based inference

arXiv:2606.23346v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We perform a realistic KiDS-Legacy mock analysis with field-level neural compression and simulation-based inference using just 60 $N$-body si...

By Alex A. Saoulis, Kiyam Lin, Niall Jeffrey, Maximilian von Wietersheim-Kramsta, Davide Piras, Alessio Spurio Mancini, Ana M. G. Ferreira, Benjamin Joachimi
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 18

PosteriorBench: From Point Estimates to Posterior Matching in Evaluating Generative Inverse Solvers

PosteriorBench is a new benchmark that evaluates how well generative inverse solvers recover full posterior distributions rather than just a single reconstruction. It tests four physics-based inverse problems—Darcy flow inversion, Poisson source recovery, carbon capture and storage, and light transport material inference—using high-fidelity reference posteriors generated by rejection sampling and MCMC. The benchmark employs five metrics (posterior-mean error, posterior-standard-deviation error, maximum mean discrepancy, sliced Wasserstein distance, and radially averaged power-spectrum error) to assess pointwise accuracy, uncertainty, distributional alignment, and global frequency fidelity, revealing significant distribution-matching gaps in current solvers and highlighting the importance of neural operators, guidance weights, and generation noise for posterior-variance calibration.

By Jiachen Yao, Zi-Siang Hsu, Xi Deng, Aditi Gupta, Xin Ju, Sally M Benson, Gege Wen, Anima Anandkumar
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 26

Estimating Orbital Parameters of Direct Imaging Exoplanet Using Neural Network

arXiv:2510. 17459v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In this work, we propose a flow-matching Markov chain Monte Carlo (FM-MCMC) algorithm for estimating the orbital parameters of exoplanetary systems, especially for those only one exoplanet is involved.

By Bo Liang, Hanlin Song, Chang Liu, Tianyu Zhao, Yuxiang Xu, Zihao Xiao, Manjia Liang, Minghui Du, Wei-Liang Qian, Li-e Qiang, Peng Xu, Ziren Luo
arXiv AI
Jul 20

Energy-based Transport for Amortized Bayesian Inference

arXiv:2605. 15407v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We consider amortized Bayesian inference for nonlinear inverse problems using only samples from the joint distribution of parameters and observations, including problems with unknown functions in a Banach space.

By Ricardo Baptista, Hojjat Kaveh, Andrew M. Stuart