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most citedSpherical Bayesian mass-mapping with uncertainties: full sky observations on the celestial sphere

28 citations · 163 across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

astro-ph.CO2024★ 4 cited

Generative modelling for mass-mapping with fast uncertainty quantification

Jessica J. Whitney, Tobías I. Liaudat, Matthew A. Price +2

Understanding the nature of dark matter in the Universe is an important goal of modern cosmology. A key method for probing this distribution is via weak gravitational lensing mass-…

astro-ph.IM2024

Scattering transforms on the sphere, application to large scale structure modelling

Louise Mousset, Erwan Allys, Matthew A. Price +4

Scattering transforms are a new type of summary statistics recently developed for the study of highly non-Gaussian processes, which have been shown to be very promising for astroph…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 11 cited

Generative models of astrophysical fields with scattering transforms on the sphere

Louise Mousset, Erwan Allys, Matthew A. Price +4

Scattering transforms are a new type of summary statistics recently developed for the study of highly non-Gaussian processes, which have been shown to be very promising for astroph…

astro-ph.CO2024

Using conditional GANs for convergence map reconstruction with uncertainties

Jessica Whitney, Tobías Liaudat, Matt Price +2

Understanding the large-scale structure of the Universe and unravelling the mysteries of dark matter are fundamental challenges in contemporary cosmology. Reconstruction of the cos…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 17 cited

The future of cosmological likelihood-based inference: accelerated high-dimensional parameter estimation and model comparison

Davide Piras, Alicja Polanska, Alessio Spurio Mancini +2

We advocate for a new paradigm of cosmological likelihood-based inference, leveraging recent developments in machine learning and its underlying technology, to accelerate Bayesian…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 5 cited

Learned harmonic mean estimation of the Bayesian evidence with normalizing flows

Alicja Polanska, Matthew A. Price, Davide Piras +2

We present the learned harmonic mean estimator with normalizing flows - a robust, scalable and flexible estimator of the Bayesian evidence for model comparison. Since the estimator…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 1 cited

Differentiable and accelerated wavelet transforms on the sphere and ball

Matthew A. Price, Alicja Polanska, Jessica Whitney +1

Directional wavelet dictionaries are hierarchical representations which efficiently capture and segment information across scale, location and orientation. Such representations dem…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 1 cited

Scalable Bayesian uncertainty quantification with data-driven priors for radio interferometric imaging

Tobías I. Liaudat, Matthijs Mars, Matthew A. Price +3

Next-generation radio interferometers like the Square Kilometer Array have the potential to unlock scientific discoveries thanks to their unprecedented angular resolution and sensi…

physics.comp-ph2023★ 11 cited

Differentiable and accelerated spherical harmonic and Wigner transforms

Matthew A. Price, Jason D. McEwen

Many areas of science and engineering encounter data defined on spherical manifolds. Modelling and analysis of spherical data often necessitates spherical harmonic transforms, at h…

stat.ME2023

Proximal nested sampling with data-driven priors for physical scientists

Jason D. McEwen, Tobías I. Liaudat, Matthew A. Price +2

Proximal nested sampling was introduced recently to open up Bayesian model selection for high-dimensional problems such as computational imaging. The framework is suitable for mode…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 1 cited

Fast emulation of anisotropies induced in the cosmic microwave background by cosmic strings

Matthew A. Price, Matthijs Mars, Matthew M. Docherty +3

Cosmic strings are linear topological defects that may have been produced during symmetry-breaking phase transitions in the very early Universe. In an expanding Universe the existe…

stat.ME2023★ 1 cited

Learned harmonic mean estimation of the marginal likelihood with normalizing flows

Alicja Polanska, Matthew A. Price, Alessio Spurio Mancini +1

Computing the marginal likelihood (also called the Bayesian model evidence) is an important task in Bayesian model selection, providing a principled quantitative way to compare mod…

cs.CV2022★ 5 cited

Scalable and Equivariant Spherical CNNs by Discrete-Continuous (DISCO) Convolutions

Jeremy Ocampo, Matthew A. Price, Jason D. McEwen

No existing spherical convolutional neural network (CNN) framework is both computationally scalable and rotationally equivariant. Continuous approaches capture rotational equivaria…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 21 cited

Bayesian model comparison for simulation-based inference

A. Spurio Mancini, M. M. Docherty, M. A. Price +1

Comparison of appropriate models to describe observational data is a fundamental task of science. The Bayesian model evidence, or marginal likelihood, is a computationally challeng…

stat.ME2021★ 2 cited

Machine learning assisted Bayesian model comparison: learnt harmonic mean estimator

Jason D. McEwen, Christopher G. R. Wallis, Matthew A. Price +1

We resurrect the infamous harmonic mean estimator for computing the marginal likelihood (Bayesian evidence) and solve its problematic large variance. The marginal likelihood is a k…

cs.IT2021

Bayesian variational regularization on the ball

Matthew A. Price, Jason D. McEwen

We develop variational regularization methods which leverage sparsity-promoting priors to solve severely ill posed inverse problems defined on the 3D ball (i.e. the solid sphere).…

cs.IT2021★ 5 cited

Sparse image reconstruction on the sphere: a general approach with uncertainty quantification

Matthew A. Price, Luke Pratley, Jason D. McEwen

Inverse problems defined naturally on the sphere are becoming increasingly of interest. In this article we provide a general framework for evaluation of inverse problems on the sph…

cs.CV2020★ 1 cited

Efficient Generalized Spherical CNNs

Oliver J. Cobb, Christopher G. R. Wallis, Augustine N. Mavor-Parker +4

Many problems across computer vision and the natural sciences require the analysis of spherical data, for which representations may be learned efficiently by encoding equivariance…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 28 cited

Spherical Bayesian mass-mapping with uncertainties: full sky observations on the celestial sphere

Matthew A. Price, Jason D. McEwen, L. Pratley +1

To date weak gravitational lensing surveys have typically been restricted to small fields of view, such that the has been sufficiently satisfied.…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 12 cited

Sparse Bayesian mass-mapping with uncertainties: peak statistics and feature locations

Matthew A. Price, Xiaohao Cai, Jason D. McEwen +1

Weak lensing convergence maps - upon which higher order statistics can be calculated - can be recovered from observations of the shear field by solving the lensing inverse problem.…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 22 cited

Sparse Bayesian mass-mapping with uncertainties: local credible intervals

Matthew A. Price, Xiaohao Cai, Jason D. McEwen +2

Until recently mass-mapping techniques for weak gravitational lensing convergence reconstruction have lacked a principled statistical framework upon which to quantify reconstructio…

astro-ph.CO2018

Sparse Bayesian mass-mapping with uncertainties: hypothesis testing of structure

Matthew A. Price, Jason D. McEwen, Xiaohao Cai +2

A crucial aspect of mass-mapping, via weak lensing, is quantification of the uncertainty introduced during the reconstruction process. Properly accounting for these errors has been…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 15 cited

Mapping dark matter on the celestial sphere with weak gravitational lensing

Christopher G. R. Wallis, Matthew A. Price, Jason D. McEwen +3

Convergence maps of the integrated matter distribution are a key science result from weak gravitational lensing surveys. To date, recovering convergence maps has been performed usi…