Population Inference with active learning

Outline

• Astronomical populations
• Learning from populations
• Active learning + Bayesian Optimisation
• Preliminary results

Astronomical populations

Stars

Compact binaries

Learning from populations

Population inference

The ‘inference’ loop

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Population model

Active learning

Training a ‘surrogate’ model

Improve ‘NN’ with new data while training

Start	50 iterations

Bayesian Optimisation

Bayesian Optimisation

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