Aframe

Detecting compact binary mergers from gravitational wave strain data using neural networks, with an emphasis on

  • Efficiency - making effective use of accelerated hardware like GPUs in order to minimize time-to-solution

  • Scale - validating hypotheses on large volumes of data to obtain high-confidence estimates of model performance

  • Flexibility - modularizing functionality to expose various levels of abstraction and make implementing new ideas simple

  • Physics first - taking advantage of the rich priors available in GW physics to build robust models and evaluate them accoring to meaningful metrics

  • Multi-messenger astronomy - making algorithmic decisions and optimizations that allow for extremely low-latency alerts

Getting started

Code Structure

For algorithm details and performance estimates on the LVK O3 observing run, please see “A machine-learning pipeline for real-time detection of gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences”. Please also cite this paper if you use Aframe software in your work.