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plan-net: Bayesian neural networks for exoplanetary atmospheric retrieval
Cobb, Adam D.;
Himes, Michael D.;
Soboczenski, Frank;
Zorzan, Simone;
O'Beirne, Molly D.;
Güneş Baydin, Atılım;
Gal, Yarin;
Domagal-Goldman, Shawn D.;
Arney, Giada N.;
Angerhausen, Daniel
plan-net uses machine learning with an ensemble of Bayesian neural networks for atmospheric retrieval; this approach yields greater accuracy and more robust uncertainties than a single model. A new loss function for BNNs learns correlations between the model outputs. Performance is improved by incorporating domain-specific knowledge into the machine learning models and provides additional insight by inferring the covariance of the retrieved atmospheric parameters.