Optimising inflationary features the Bayesian way

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2022/03/036MaRDI QIDQ5099202zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jan Hamann, Julius Wons

Publication date 31 August 2022

Published in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.08571

zbMATH Keywords

cosmological parameters from CMBRinflation and CMBR theorystatistical sampling techniques

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spectrum, resolvent (47A10) Empirical decision procedures; empirical Bayes procedures (62C12) Bayesian inference (62F15) Numerical optimization and variational techniques (65K10) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: 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.

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