Learning in the absence of training data -- a galactic application

DOI10.1007/978-3-030-30611-3_5MaRDI QIDQ3297244zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Cedric Spire, Dalia Chakrabarty

Publication date 3 July 2020

Published in Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.09204

zbMATH Keywords

absence of training dataBayesian learningdark matter in galaxiesMetropolis-within-Gibbsstate space density

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Factor analysis and principal components; correspondence analysis (62H25) Applications of statistics to physics (62P35) Learning and adaptive systems in artificial intelligence (68T05) Dark matter and dark energy (83C56) Statistical astronomy (85A35)

Abstract: There are multiple real-world problems in which training data is unavailable, and still, the ambition is to learn values of the system parameters, at which test data on an observable is realised, subsequent to the learning of the functional relationship between these variables. We present a novel Bayesian method to deal with such a problem, in which we learn a system function of a stationary dynamical system, for which only test data on a vector-valued observable is available, and training data is unavailable. This exercise borrows heavily from the state space probability density function ($pdf$), that we also learn. As there is no training data available for either sought function, we cannot learn its correlation structure, and instead, perform inference (using Metropolis-within-Gibbs), on the discretised form of the sought system function and of the $pdf$, where this $pdf$ is constructed such that the unknown system parameters are embedded within its support. Likelihood of the unknowns given the available data, is defined in terms of such a $pdf$. We make an application to the learning of the density of all gravitational matter in a real galaxy.

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