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Nessai
nessai
(/ˈnɛsi/): Nested Sampling with Artificial Intelligence
nessai
is a nested sampling algorithm for Bayesian Inference that incorporates normalising flows. It is designed for applications where the Bayesian likelihood is computationally expensive.
The code is available at: https://github.com/mj-will/nessai.
Citing nessai
If you find nessai
useful in your work please cite the DOI for this code and our paper:
@software{nessai,
author = {Michael J. Williams},
title = {nessai: Nested Sampling with Artificial Intelligence},
month = feb,
year = 2021,
publisher = {Zenodo},
version = {latest},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.4550693},
url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4550693}
}
@article{williams2021nested,
title={Nested Sampling with Normalising Flows for Gravitational-Wave Inference},
author={Michael J. Williams and John Veitch and Chris Messenger},
year={2021},
eprint={2102.11056},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={gr-qc}
}