SBI Workflow Overview

Simulation-Based Inference: A Practical Guide

We provide a practical guide for applying SBI methods, outlining a structured workflow with guidelines and diagnostic tools for every stage—from setting up simulators to validating results.

August 2025 · Michael Deistler*, Jan Boelts*, Peter Steinbach, Guy Moss, Thomas Moreau, Manuel Gloeckler, Pedro L. C. Rodrigues, Julia Linhart, Janne K. Lappalainen, Benjamin Kurt Miller, Pedro J. Gonçalves, Jan-Matthis Lueckmann, Cornelius Schröder, Jakob H. Macke
SBI Tutorial

Beyond Likelihoods: Bayesian Parameter Inference for Black-Box Simulators with sbi

A comprehensive hands-on tutorial at EuroSciPy 2025 teaching scientists and engineers how to use simulation-based inference (SBI) for Bayesian parameter estimation in complex simulators, providing full uncertainty quantification beyond simple best-fit approaches.

August 2025 · Jan Teusen
SBI at EuroSciPy 2024

Simulated Data is All You Need: Bayesian Parameter Inference for Scientific Simulators with SBI

This talk covers SBI, a method for Bayesian parameter inference using simulated data, and introduces the sbi library, an open-source tool for practitioners and researchers.

August 2024 · Jan Teusen
SBI Training

Simulation-Based Inference Training

Hands-on training in Simulation-Based Inference (SBI), designed for applications in neuroscience, astrophysics, and biology. Developed in collaboration with the University of Tübingen and the TransferLab at the appliedAI Institute for Europe.

April 2023 · Jan Teusen and Maternus Herold
Mixed Neural Likelihood Estimation

Flexible and efficient simulation-based inference for models of decision-making

We propose a new method to perform simulation-based inference for mixed data e.g., with continuous and discrete data types, like they often occur in models of decision-making.

July 2022 · Jan Boelts, Jan-Matthis Lueckmann, Richard Gao, Jakob H. Macke
sbi python package

sbi: Simulation-Based Inference

sbi is a Python package for simulation-based inference, providing a user-friendly interface to perform Bayesian parameter inference for simulator-based models with intractable likelihoods.

August 2020 · The sbi-dev team