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In recent years, citizen science has grown in popularity due to a number of reasons, including the emphasis on informal learning and creativity potential associated with these initiatives. Citizen science projects address research questions…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-04-20 Poonam Yadav , John Darlington

In this review, we examine the problem of designing interpretable and explainable machine learning models. Interpretability and explainability lie at the core of many machine learning and statistical applications in medicine, economics,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Ričards Marcinkevičs , Julia E. Vogt

With the advent of large scale surveys the manual analysis and classification of individual radio source morphologies is rendered impossible as existing approaches do not scale. The analysis of complex morphological features in the spatial…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-15 T. J. Galvin , M. Huynh , R. P. Norris , X. R. Wang , E. Hopkins , O. I. Wong , S. Shabala , L. Rudnick , M. J. Alger , K. L. Polsterer

Galaxy clusters appear as extended sources in XMM-Newton images, but not all extended sources are clusters. So, their proper classification requires visual inspection with optical images, which is a slow process with biases that are almost…

Astronomers have typically set out to solve supervised machine learning problems by creating their own representations from scratch. We show that deep learning models trained to answer every Galaxy Zoo DECaLS question learn meaningful…

We present the data release paper for the Galaxy Zoo: Hubble (GZH) project. This is the third phase in a large effort to measure reliable, detailed morphologies of galaxies by using crowdsourced visual classifications of colour composite…

Galaxy morphology is a fundamental quantity, that is essential not only for the full spectrum of galaxy-evolution studies, but also for a plethora of science in observational cosmology. While a rich literature exists on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Garreth Martin , Sugata Kaviraj , Alex Hocking , Shaun C. Read , James E. Geach

We present a catalogue of 39 multiple-mergers found using the mergers catalogue of the Galaxy Zoo project for $z<0.1$ and compare them to corresponding semi-analytical galaxies from the Millennium Simulation. We estimate the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 D. W. Darg , S. Kaviraj , C. J. Lintott , K. Schawinski , J. Silk , S. Lynn , S. Bamford , R. C. Nichol

We present detailed morphology measurements for 8.67 million galaxies in the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys (DECaLS, MzLS, and BASS, plus DES). These are automated measurements made by deep learning models trained on Galaxy Zoo volunteer…

We study the usage of EfficientNets and their applications to Galaxy Morphology Classification. We explore the usage of EfficientNets into predicting the vote fractions of the 79,975 testing images from the Galaxy Zoo 2 challenge on Kaggle.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Shreyas Kalvankar , Hrushikesh Pandit , Pranav Parwate

We present the results of Galaxy Nurseries project, which was designed to enable crowdsourced analysis of slitless spectroscopic data by volunteer citizen scientists using the Zooniverse online interface. The dataset was obtained by the…

Big data has become the norm in astronomy, making it an ideal domain for computer science research. Astronomers typically classify galaxies based on their morphologies, a practice that dates back to Hubble (1936). With small datasets,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-02 Yevonnael Andrew

Data from ground-based gravitational-wave detectors like LIGO contain many types of noise. Glitches are short bursts of non-Gaussian noise that may hinder our ability to identify or analyse gravitational-wave signals. They may have…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-23 E Mackenzie , C P L Berry , G Niklasch , B Téglás , C Unsworth , K Crowston , D Davis , A K Katsaggelos

Networks have provided extremely successful models of data and complex systems. Yet, as combinatorial objects, networks do not have in general intrinsic coordinates and do not typically lie in an ambient space. The process of assigning an…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Anthony Baptista , Rubén J. Sánchez-García , Anaïs Baudot , Ginestra Bianconi

Research in multistable systems is a flourishing field with countless examples and applications across scientific disciplines. I present a catalog of multistable dynamical systems covering relevant fields of knowledge. This work is focused…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-23 Alexandre Wagemakers

We present the largest, most homogeneous catalogue of merging galaxies in the nearby universe obtained through the Galaxy Zoo project - an interface on the world-wide web enabling large-scale morphological classification of galaxies through…

To foster usefulness and accountability of machine learning (ML), it is essential to explain a model's decisions in addition to evaluating its performance. Accordingly, the field of explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) has resurfaced…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Ulrike Kuhl , André Artelt , Barbara Hammer

Can we describe social systems quantitatively and predictively, when we know all the actions, interactions, and states of individuals? We interpret human societies as co-evolutionary systems of individuals and their interactions. Based on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-11-21 Stefan Thurner

This paper argues that continual learning methods can benefit by splitting the capacity of the learner across multiple models. We use statistical learning theory and experimental analysis to show how multiple tasks can interact with each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Rahul Ramesh , Pratik Chaudhari

Galaxy groups are essential for studying the distribution of matter on a large scale in redshift surveys and for deciphering the link between galaxy traits and their associated halos. In this work, we propose a widely applicable method for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-03 Juntao Ma , Jie Wang , Tianxiang Mao , Hongxiang Chen , Yuxi Meng , Xiaohu Yang , Qingyang Li