Scalable Bayesian data curation for next-generation radio experiments

arXiv:2606.16525 · astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.CO · Submitted 2026-06-15 · Read on arXiv

S. A. K. Leeney, E. de Lera Acedo, W. J. Handley, H. T. J. Bevins, G. Allen, D. Anstey, K. Artuc, G. Bernardi, M. Bucher, S. Carey, J. Cavillot, R. Chiello, A. S. Chu, W. Croukamp, J. Cumner, S. Dasgupta, A. K. Dash, D. I. L. de Villiers, J. Dhandha, A. Dragovic, J. A. Ely, A. Fialkov, T. Gessey-Jones, C. Kirkham, G. Kulkarni, A. Magro, P. D. Meerburg, S. Mittal, D. Molnar, R. S. Patel, J. H. N. Pattison, S. Pegwal, C. M. Pieterse, J. R. Pritchard, G. M. Z. Rajpoot, N. Razavi-Ghods, D. Robins, I. L. V. Roque, A. Saxena, K. H. Scheutwinkel, E. Shen, P. H. Sims, M. Spinelli, J. L. Tutt, J. Zhu

astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.CO

Submitted: 2026-06-15

Comments: 12 pages, 8 figures

Code: https://github.com/ax-ml/jax

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Calibration — 9× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Bayesian Framework — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Bayesian Inference — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Computational Tractability — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fidelity — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Human-in-the-Loop — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Initial Data — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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