Reconstructing the Type Ia Supernova Absolute Magnitude with Two-Probe Physics-Informed Neural Networks
Abstract
We apply two variants of Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) to reconstruct the Type~Ia supernova absolute magnitude from joint BAO and supernova data under four cosmological models (CDM, CPL, GEDE, CDM) and two DESI~DR2 fiducial sets. A heteroscedastic single-network method tested across four constraint configurations establishes that the Etherington distance duality relation is a more fundamental constraint than cosmological model priors, reducing internal inconsistencies by up to an order of magnitude. Under full constraints all models recover ~mag with biases below 0.05~mag. A Fisher information-weighted two-network variant trains independent networks on BAO and SN data, providing clean probe separation; it finds no significant pointwise evolution in , but reveals a systematic separation of redshift-binned distributions. The heteroscedastic method identifies a persistent -- residual at -- that is consistent across all four models and both fiducials, implying the same underlying tension. While the origin of this feature remains ambiguous, its model-independence and cross-method consistency warrant further investigation with forthcoming data.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2603.17184,
title = {Reconstructing the Type Ia Supernova Absolute Magnitude with Two-Probe Physics-Informed Neural Networks},
author = {Denitsa Staicova},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.17184},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
16 pages, 6 figures, 4 tables, final published version