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We present a novel approach for classifying stars as binary or exoplanet using deep learning techniques. Our method utilizes feature extraction, wavelet transformation, and a neural network on the light curves of stars to achieve…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-22 Aman Kumar , Sarvesh Gharat

In modern astrophysics, the machine learning has increasingly gained more popularity with its incredibly powerful ability to make predictions or calculated suggestions for large amounts of data. We describe an application of the supervised…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-26 Yu Bai , JiFeng Liu , Song Wang , Fan Yang

We apply machine learning techniques in an attempt to predict and classify stellar properties from noisy and sparse time series data. We preprocessed over 94 GB of Kepler light curves from MAST to classify according to ten distinct physical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-27 Trisha Hinners , Kevin Tat , Rachel Thorp

We investigate the extent to which supervised machine learning techniques can distinguish between neutron-star matter models using macroscopic and oscillation-related quantities derived from theoretical stellar configurations. Four…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-26 Wasif Husain

We apply a combination of a Genetic Algorithms (GA) and Support Vector Machines (SVM) machine learning algorithm to solve two important problems faced by the astronomical community: star/galaxy separation, and photometric redshift…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-27 S. Heinis , S. Kumar , S. Gezari , W. S. Burgett , K. C. Chambers , P. W. Draper , H. Flewelling , N. Kaiser , E. A. Magnier , N. Metcalfe , C. Waters

We discuss the application of a class of machine learning algorithms known as decision trees to the process of galactic classification. In particular, we explore the application of oblique decision trees induced with different impurity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 E. Owens , R. E. Griffiths , K. U. Ratnatunga

Motivation: Tumor classification using Imaging Mass Spectrometry (IMS) data has a high potential for future applications in pathology. Due to the complexity and size of the data, automated feature extraction and classification steps are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-28 Jens Behrmann , Christian Etmann , Tobias Boskamp , Rita Casadonte , Jörg Kriegsmann , Peter Maass

Although deep learning models are powerful among various applications, most deep learning models are still a black box, lacking verifiability and interpretability, which means the decision-making process that human beings cannot understand.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Qianmengke Zhao , Ye Wang , Qun Liu

This paper explores interpretability techniques for two of the most successful learning algorithms in medical decision-making literature: deep neural networks and random forests. We applied these algorithms in a real-world medical dataset…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Catarina Moreira , Renuka Sindhgatta , Chun Ouyang , Peter Bruza , Andreas Wichert

We focus on the automated classification of eclipsing binary stars using deep learning methods to handle the vast data generated by large-scale photometric sky surveys. These surveys produce extensive datasets that are impractical for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-27 Bedri Keskin , Özgür Baştürk

We present a technique for translating a black-box machine-learned classifier operating on a high-dimensional input space into a small set of human-interpretable observables that can be combined to make the same classification decisions. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-21 Taylor Faucett , Jesse Thaler , Daniel Whiteson

We provide classifications for all 143 million non-repeat photometric objects in the Third Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) using decision trees trained on 477,068 objects with SDSS spectroscopic data. We demonstrate that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Nicholas M. Ball , Robert J. Brunner , Adam D. Myers , David Tcheng

Classification is a popular task in the field of Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), and it happens when outputs are categorical variables. There are a wide variety of models that attempts to draw some conclusions from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-24 Mohammad H. Zhoolideh Haghighi

Decision-making in complex systems often relies on machine learning models, yet highly accurate models such as XGBoost and neural networks can obscure the reasoning behind their predictions. In operations research applications,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Gaurav Arwade , Sigurdur Olafsson

Machine learning (ML) has become a key tool in astronomy, driving advancements in the analysis and interpretation of complex datasets from observations. This article reviews the application of ML techniques in the identification and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-04 Guangping Li , Zujia Lu , Junzhi Wang , Zhao Wang

The success of automatic classification of variable stars strongly depends on the lightcurve representation. Usually, lightcurves are represented as a vector of many statistical descriptors designed by astronomers called features. These…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-13 Cristóbal Mackenzie , Karim Pichara , Pavlos Protopapas

Machine Learning algorithms are good tools for both classification and prediction purposes. These algorithms can further be used for scientific discoveries from the enormous data being collected in our era. We present ways of discovering…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-26 Shraddha Surana , Yogesh Wadadekar , Divya Oberoi

The Lucid methods described by Olah et al. (2018) provide a way to inspect the inner workings of neural networks trained on image classification tasks using feature visualization. Such methods have generally been applied to networks trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-15 David Mott , Richard Tomsett

Measuring distances of cosmological sources such as galaxies, stars and quasars plays an increasingly critical role in modern cosmology. Obtaining the optical spectrum and consequently calculating the redshift as a distance indicator could…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-13 Aidin Momtaz , Mohammad Hossein Salimi , Soroush Shakeri

Clustering serves as a vital tool for uncovering latent data structures, and achieving both high accuracy and interpretability is essential. To this end, existing methods typically construct binary decision trees by solving mixed-integer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Hayato Suzuki , Shunnosuke Ikeda , Yuichi Takano