SimSIMS: Simulation-based Supernova Ia Model Selection with thousands of latent variables
arXiv:2311.15650
Abstract
We present principled Bayesian model comparison through simulation-based neural classification applied to SN Ia analysis. We validate our approach on realistically simulated SN Ia light curve data, demonstrating its ability to recover posterior model probabilities while marginalizing over >4000 latent variables. The amortized nature of our technique allows us to explore the dependence of Bayes factors on the true parameters of simulated data, demonstrating Occam's razor for nested models. When applied to a sample of 86 low-redshift SNae Ia from the Carnegie Supernova Project, our method prefers a model with a single dust law and no magnitude step with host mass, disfavouring different dust laws for low- and high-mass hosts with odds in excess of 100:1.
arXiv commentAccepted for the NeurIPS 2023 workshop Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences; 5 pages, 3 figures
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