Neural network reconstruction of scalar-tensor cosmology

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Neural networks have shown great promise in providing a data-first approach to exploring new physics.

• In this work, we use the full implementation of late time cosmological data to reconstruct a number of scalar-tensor cosmological models within the context of neural network systems.
• In this pipeline, we incorporate covariances in the data in the neural network training algorithm, rather than a likelihood which is the approach taken in Markov chain Monte Carlo analyses.
• For general subclasses of classic scalar-tensor models, we find stricter bounds on functional models which may help in the understanding of which models are observationally viable.