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Deep-learning Real/Bogus classification for the Tomo-e Gozen transient survey

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2022-06-28 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

We present a deep neural network Real/Bogus classifier that improves classification performance in the Tomo-e Gozen transient survey by handling label errors in the training data. In the wide-field, high-frequency transient survey with Tomo-e Gozen, the performance of conventional convolutional neural network classifier is not sufficient as about 10610^6 bogus detections appear every night. In need of a better classifier, we have developed a new two-stage training method. In this training method, label errors in the training data are first detected by normal supervised learning classification, and then they are unlabeled and used for training of semi-supervised learning. For actual observed data, the classifier with this method achieves an area under the curve (AUC) of 0.9998 and a false positive rate (FPR) of 0.0002 at true positive rate (TPR) of 0.9. This training method saves relabeling effort by humans and works better on training data with a high fraction of label errors. By implementing the developed classifier in the Tomo-e Gozen pipeline, the number of transient candidates was reduced to \sim40 objects per night, which is \sim1/130 of the previous version, while maintaining the recovery rate of real transients. This enables more efficient selection of targets for follow-up observations.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2206.12478,
  title  = {Deep-learning Real/Bogus classification for the Tomo-e Gozen transient survey},
  author = {Ichiro Takahashi and Ryo Hamasaki and Naonori Ueda and Masaomi Tanaka and Nozomu Tominaga and Shigeyuki Sako and Ryou Ohsawa and Naoki Yoshida},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.12478},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

14 pages, 17 figures, 2 tables. Published in PASJ. The source code is available at https://github.com/ichiro-takahashi/tomoe-realbogus

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