no code implementations • 22 May 2024 • Thomas D. P. Edwards, James Alvey, Justin Alsing, Nam H. Nguyen, Benjamin D. Wandelt
Scaling laws for large language models (LLMs) have provided useful guidance on how to train ever larger models for predictable performance gains.
no code implementations • 9 Nov 2023 • Justin Alsing, Thomas D. P. Edwards, Benjamin Wandelt
We present a framework for the efficient computation of optimal Bayesian decisions under intractable likelihoods, by learning a surrogate model for the expected utility (or its distribution) as a function of the action and data spaces.
1 code implementation • 10 Nov 2020 • Thomas D. P. Edwards, Bradley J. Kavanagh, Luca Visinelli, Christoph Weniger
The QCD axion is expected to form dense structures known as axion miniclusters if the Peccei-Quinn symmetry is broken after inflation.
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Astrophysics of Galaxies
1 code implementation • 10 Nov 2020 • Bradley J. Kavanagh, Thomas D. P. Edwards, Luca Visinelli, Christoph Weniger
Although we present results for a particular initial halo mass function, our simulations can be easily recast to different models using the provided data and code.
Astrophysics of Galaxies Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
1 code implementation • 13 Jun 2019 • Sebastian Baum, Thomas D. P. Edwards, Bradley J. Kavanagh, Patrick Stengel, Andrzej K. Drukier, Katherine Freese, Maciej Górski, Christoph Weniger
Natural minerals on Earth are as old as $\mathcal{O}(1)\,$Gyr and, in many minerals, the damage tracks left by recoiling nuclei are also preserved for timescales long compared to 1 Gyr once created.
Astrophysics of Galaxies Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2 code implementations • 26 Nov 2018 • Thomas D. P. Edwards, Bradley J. Kavanagh, Christoph Weniger, Sebastian Baum, Andrzej K. Drukier, Katherine Freese, Maciej Górski, Patrick Stengel
We find that in the most optimistic case of a %-level understanding of the background shape, we can achieve sensitivity to DM-nucleon scattering cross sections up to a factor of 100 smaller than current XENON1T bounds for DM masses above $100\,$GeV.
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
1 code implementation • 10 May 2018 • Thomas D. P. Edwards, Bradley J. Kavanagh, Christoph Weniger
Forecasting the signal discrimination power of dark matter (DM) searches is commonly limited to a set of arbitrary benchmark points.
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
1 code implementation • 14 Dec 2017 • Thomas D. P. Edwards, Christoph Weniger
We introduce swordfish, a Monte-Carlo-free Python package to predict expected exclusion limits, the discovery reach and expected confidence contours for a large class of experiments relevant for particle- and astrophysics.
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
1 code implementation • 18 Apr 2017 • Thomas D. P. Edwards, Christoph Weniger
It is a powerful and flexible tool ready to be used as core concept for informed strategy development in astroparticle physics and searches for particle dark matter.
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability