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# Normalizing Flows

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  1. arXiv

    MC@NLO's negative-weight events get a learned fix: decision trees and normalizing flows cut the negative fraction in most processes

    Negative-weight events from MC@NLO matching erode the statistical power of simulations, and full folding suppresses them only at prohibitive cost. This work learns a local correction with decision trees and normalizing flows whose integral over radiation variables vanishes, and adds it to the radiation-event short-distance cross section; across several electron- and hadron-collision processes the negative-weight fraction falls in most cases while total rates and Born-level distributions stay unchanged, at a modest extra computational cost.

  2. arXiv

    Standard-siren cosmology stops restarting from the prior: ASPIRE reuses old posteriors for a roughly 29-fold speed-up in a dark-siren case

    Standard-siren cosmology jointly infers cosmological and compact-binary population parameters, and each change of galaxy catalogue, mass model or event set has usually meant a full reanalysis from the prior. ASPIRE fits a normalising flow to existing posterior samples and anneals them with sequential Monte Carlo toward the posterior under a new hypothesis, recovering posteriors consistent with nested sampling on GWTC-5.0 dark-siren cases while still estimating Bayesian evidence. Adding GLADE+ galaxy-catalogue information to a spectral-siren result cut sampling time from 134.4 hours to 4.6 hours.

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