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Journal Articles Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Year : 2024

Differentiable Stochastic Halo Occupation Distribution

Benjamin Horowitz
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Changhoon Hahn
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Chirag Modi
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Simone Ferraro
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Abstract

In this work, we demonstrate how differentiable stochastic sampling techniques developed in the context of deep Reinforcement Learning can be used to perform efficient parameter inference over stochastic, simulation-based, forward models. As a particular example, we focus on the problem of estimating parameters of Halo Occupancy Distribution (HOD) models which are used to connect galaxies with their dark matter halos. Using a combination of continuous relaxation and gradient parameterization techniques, we can obtain well-defined gradients with respect to HOD parameters through discrete galaxy catalogs realizations. Having access to these gradients allows us to leverage efficient sampling schemes, such as Hamiltonian Monte-Carlo, and greatly speed up parameter inference. We demonstrate our technique on a mock galaxy catalog generated from the Bolshoi simulation using the Zheng et al. 2007 HOD model and find near identical posteriors as standard Markov Chain Monte Carlo techniques with an increase of ~8x in convergence efficiency. Our differentiable HOD model also has broad applications in full forward model approaches to cosmic structure and cosmological analysis.
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hal-03866311 , version 1 (19-04-2024)

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Benjamin Horowitz, Changhoon Hahn, Francois Lanusse, Chirag Modi, Simone Ferraro. Differentiable Stochastic Halo Occupation Distribution. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2024, 529 (3), pp.2473-2482. ⟨10.1093/mnras/stae350⟩. ⟨hal-03866311⟩
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