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Cosmological parameter estimation using particle swarm optimization

Jayanti Prasad* and Tarun Souradeep†

  • IUCAA, Post Bag 4, Ganeshkhind, Pune 411007, India

  • *jayanti@iucaa.ernet.in
  • †tarun@iucaa.ernet.in
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Phys. Rev. D 85, 123008 – Published 19 June, 2012Erratum Phys. Rev. D 90, 109903 (2014)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.85.123008

Abstract

Constraining theoretical models, which are represented by a set of parameters, using observational data is an important exercise in cosmology. In Bayesian framework this is done by finding the probability distribution of parameters which best fits to the observational data using sampling based methods like Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). It has been argued that MCMC may not be the best option in certain problems in which the target function (likelihood) poses local maxima or have very high dimensionality. Apart from this, there may be examples in which we are mainly interested to find the point in the parameter space at which the probability distribution has the largest value. In this situation the problem of parameter estimation becomes an optimization problem. In the present work we show that particle swarm optimization (PSO), which is an artificial intelligence inspired population based search procedure, can also be used for cosmological parameter estimation. Using PSO we were able to recover the best-fit Λ cold dark matter (LCDM) model parameters from the WMAP seven year data without using any prior guess value or any other property of the probability distribution of parameters like standard deviation, as is common in MCMC. We also report the results of an exercise in which we consider a binned primordial power spectrum (to increase the dimensionality of problem) and find that a power spectrum with features gives lower chi square than the standard power law. Since PSO does not sample the likelihood surface in a fair way, we follow a fitting procedure to find the spread of likelihood function around the best-fit point.

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Erratum: Cosmological parameter estimation using particle swarm optimization [Phys. Rev. D 85, 123008 (2012)]

Jayanti Prasad and Tarun Souradeep
Phys. Rev. D 90, 109903 (2014)

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Phys. Rev. D 85, 123008– Published 19 June, 2012
  • Received 4 September 2011

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