Evaluating extensions to LCDM: an application of Bayesian model averaging and selection
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Abstract
Abstract We present a powerful and innovative statistical framework to address key cosmological questions about the universe's fundamental properties, performing Bayesian model averaging (BMA) and model selection. Utilizing this framework, we systematically explore extensions beyond the standard ΛCDM model, considering a varying curvature density parameter Ω K , a spectral index n s = 1 and a varying n run , a constant dark energy equation of state (EOS) w 0 CDM and a time-dependent one w 0 w a CDM. We also assess cosmological data against a varying effective number of neutrino species N eff . Our analysis incorporates data from various combinations of cosmic microwave background (CMB) data from the latest Planck PR4 analysis, CMB lensing from Planck 2018, baryonic acoustic oscillations (BAO), and the Bicep-KECK 2018 results. We reinforce the standard ΛCDM model statistical preference when combining CMB data with CMB lensing, BAO, and Bicep-KECK 2018 data against the K-ΛCDM model and d n s /d ln k -ΛCDM with a probability > 80%. When evaluating the dark energy EOS, we find that this dataset does not exhibit a strong preference between the standard ΛCDM model and the constant dark energy EOS model w 0 CDM, with a model posterior probability distribution of approximately ≈ 40%:60% in favour of w 0 CDM, while the time-varying dark energy EOS model only holds below 1% probability. We find a similar result also when considering the N eff -ΛCDM model, with a split probability almost 50%-50% from both our datasets. Overall, our application of BMA reveals that including model uncertainty in these cases does not significantly impact the Hubble tension, showcasing BMA's robustness and utility in cosmological model evaluation.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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