Fast cosmological parameter estimation using neural networks

Details Fast cosmological parameter estimation using neural networks Fast cosmological parameter estimation using neural networks

2006-08-08

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0608174v2

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.Lett.376:L11-L15,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, 5 figures, minor changes to match version accepted by MNRAS letters

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1745-3933.2006.00276.x

We present a method for accelerating the calculation of CMB power spectra, matter power spectra and likelihood functions for use in cosmological parameter estimation. The algorithm, called CosmoNet, is based on training a multilayer perceptron neural network and shares all the advantages of the recently released Pico algorithm of Fendt & Wandelt, but has several additional benefits in terms of simplicity, computational speed, memory requirements and ease of training. We demonstrate the capabilities of CosmoNet by computing CMB power spectra over a box in the parameter space of flat \Lambda CDM models containing the 3\sigma WMAP1 confidence region. We also use CosmoNet to compute the WMAP3 likelihood for flat \Lambda CDM models and show that marginalised posteriors on parameters derived are very similar to those obtained using CAMB and the WMAP3 code. We find that the average error in the power spectra is typically 2-3% of cosmic variance, and that CosmoNet is \sim 7 \times 10^4 faster than CAMB (for flat models) and \sim 6 \times 10^6 times faster than the official WMAP3 likelihood code. CosmoNet and an interface to CosmoMC are publically available at www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/software/cosmonet.

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