@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ NIFTy takes advantage of this formulation in several ways:
1) All prior degrees of freedom have unit covariance which improves the condition number of operators which need to be inverted.
2) The amplitude operator can be regarded as part of the response, :math:`{R'=R\,A}`. In general, more sophisticated responses can be constructed out of the composition of simpler operators.
3) The response can be non-linear, e.g. :math:`{R'(s)=R \exp(A\,\xi)}`, see demos/getting_started_2.py.
4) The amplitude operator can be made dependent on unknowns as well, e.g. :math:`A=A(\tau)= F\, \widehat{e^\tau}` represents an amplitude model with a positive definite, unknown spectrum defined in Fourier domain. The amplitude field :math:`{\tau}` would get its own amplitude model, with a cepstrum (spectrum of a log spectrum) defined in quefrency space (harmonic space of a logarithmically binned harmonic space) to regularize its degrees of freedom by imposing some (user-defined level of) spectral smoothness.
4) The amplitude operator can be made dependent on unknowns as well, e.g. :math:`A=A(\tau)= F\, \widehat{e^\tau}` represents an amplitude operator with a positive definite, unknown spectrum defined in Fourier domain. The amplitude field :math:`{\tau}` would get its own amplitude operator, with a cepstrum (spectrum of a log spectrum) defined in quefrency space (harmonic space of a logarithmically binned harmonic space) to regularize its degrees of freedom by imposing some (user-defined level of) spectral smoothness.
5) NIFTy can calculate the gradient of the information Hamiltonian and the Fischer information metric with respect to all unknown parameters, here :math:`{\xi}` and :math:`{\tau}`, by automatic differentiation. The gradients are used for MAP and HMCF estimates, and the Fischer matrix is required in addition to the gradient by Metric Gaussian Variational Inference (MGVI), which is available in NIFTy as well. MGVI is an implicit operator extension of Automatic Differentiation Variational Inference (ADVI).
The reconstruction of a non-Gaussian signal with unknown covarinance from a non-trivial (tomographic) response is demonstrated in demos/getting_started_3.py. Here, the uncertainty of the field and the power spectrum of its generating process are probed via posterior samples provided by the MGVI algorithm.
