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In the next decade, the LSST will become a major facility for the astronomical community. However accurately determining the redshifts of the observed galaxies without using spectroscopy is a major challenge. Reconstruction of the redshifts…

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3D reconstruction is a useful tool for surgical planning and guidance. However, the lack of available medical data stunts research and development in this field, as supervised deep learning methods for accurate disparity estimation rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Alistair Weld , Joao Cartucho , Chi Xu , Joseph Davids , Stamatia Giannarou

The study of machine learning (ML) techniques for the autonomous classification of astrophysical sources is of great interest, and we explore its applications in the context of a multifrequency data-frame. We test the use of supervised ML…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-07 Bruno Arsioli , Pedro Dedin

The existing core methods, which are employed by the popular CTL model checking tools, are facing the famous state explode problem. In our previous study, a method based on the Machine Learning (ML) algorithms was proposed to address this…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Weijun ZHU

We developed and trained a pipeline of three machine learning (ML) models than can predict which sources are more likely to be an AGN and to be detected in specific radio surveys. Also, it can estimate redshift values for predicted…

We describe the algorithm used to select the Luminous Red Galaxy (LRG) sample for the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV) using photometric data from both the SDSS and the…

We study the problem of fine-tuning a language model (LM) for a target task by optimally using the information from $n$ auxiliary tasks. This problem has broad applications in NLP, such as targeted instruction tuning and data selection in…

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The morphology of a galaxy has been shown to encode the evolutionary history and correlates strongly with physical properties such as stellar mass, star formation rates and past merger events. While the majority of galaxies in the local…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-23 Clár-Bríd Tohill , Steven Bamford , Christopher Conselice

Forthcoming astronomical surveys are expected to detect new sources in such large numbers that measuring their spectroscopic redshift measurements will be not be practical. Thus, there is much interest in using machine learning to yield the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 S. J. Curran

Supervised machine learning (ML) algorithms are aimed at maximizing classification performance under available energy and storage constraints. They try to map the training data to the corresponding labels while ensuring generalizability to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Ayten Ozge Akmandor , Jorge Ortiz , Irene Manotas , Bongjun Ko , Niraj K. Jha

In a quest towards an intelligent decision-making machine, the ability to make plausible predictions is the central pillar of its intelligence. A predicting algorithm's central idea is to understand the governing physical rules and make…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-01 Shashwat Singh , Ankul Prajapati , Kamlesh N Pathak

Earth observing satellites are powerful tools for collecting scientific information about our planet, however they have limitations: they cannot easily deviate from their orbital trajectories, their sensors have a limited field of view, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Abigail Breitfeld , Alberto Candela , Juan Delfa , Akseli Kangaslahti , Itai Zilberstein , Steve Chien , David Wettergreen

Despite successful use in a wide variety of disciplines for data analysis and prediction, machine learning (ML) methods suffer from a lack of understanding of the reliability of predictions due to the lack of transparency and black-box…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-04 Evan Askanazi , Ilya Grinberg

Automated data augmentation, which aims at engineering augmentation policy automatically, recently draw a growing research interest. Many previous auto-augmentation methods utilized a Density Matching strategy by evaluating policies in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Jianwei Zhang , Dong Li , Lituan Wang , Lei Zhang

Machine learning (ML) is increasingly being used in image retrieval systems for medical decision making. One application of ML is to retrieve visually similar medical images from past patients (e.g. tissue from biopsies) to reference when…

Since most machine learning (ML) algorithms are designed for numerical inputs, efficiently encoding categorical variables is a crucial aspect in data analysis. A common problem are high cardinality features, i.e. unordered categorical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-03-07 Florian Pargent , Florian Pfisterer , Janek Thomas , Bernd Bischl

The observing strategy of a galaxy survey influences the degree to which its resulting data can be used to accomplish any science goal. LSST is thus seeking metrics of observing strategies for multiple science cases in order to optimally…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-19 Alex I. Malz , François Lanusse , John Franklin Crenshaw , Melissa L. Graham

Context. Machine-Learning (ML) solves problems by learning patterns from data, with limited or no human guidance. In Astronomy, it is mainly applied to large observational datasets, e.g. for morphological galaxy classification. Aims. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-04-27 Mario Pasquato , Chul Chung

The results of morphological galaxy classifications performed by humans and by automated methods are compared. In particular, a comparison is made between the eyeball classifications of 454 galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)…

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