LSSTDESC / derp

A first attempt at a simple LSST DRP catalog emulator
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Train a first-pass stochastic model (multivariate Gaussian) #9

Open jiwoncpark opened 5 years ago

jiwoncpark commented 5 years ago

Once we see that the features in our training data allow for okay training, we implement a simple type of stochastic model parameterized as a multivariate Gaussian, where each dimension belongs to a feature in the output space (the space of object-catalog features).

Call the input (truth-catalog) features x and the output (object-catalog) features y. The central challenge of this task is defining a loss function that captures the distance between the current network distribution q(y|x; theta) where theta refers to the Gaussian parameters and the target distribution p(y|x).