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We present an image classification algorithm using deep learning convolutional neural network architecture, which classifies the morphologies of eclipsing binary systems based on their light curves. The algorithm trains the machine with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-06 Burak Ulas

In Astrophysics, the identification of candidate Globular Clusters through deep, wide-field, single band HST images, is a typical data analytics problem, where methods based on Machine Learning have revealed a high efficiency and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-12 Giuseppe Angora , Massimo Brescia , Giuseppe Riccio , Stefano Cavuoti , Maurizio Paolillo , Thomas H. Puzia

During the last ten years, a considerable amount of effort has been made to develop algorithms for automatic classification of variable stars. That has been primarily achieved by applying machine learning methods to photometric datasets…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-31 Lucas Valenzuela , Karim Pichara

Due to the ever-expanding volume of observed spectroscopic data from surveys such as SDSS and LAMOST, it has become important to apply artificial intelligence (AI) techniques for analysing stellar spectra to solve spectral classification…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Kaushal Sharma , Ajit Kembhavi , Aniruddha Kembhavi , T. Sivarani , Sheelu Abraham , Kaustubh Vaghmare

We present a novel graph-based machine learning classifier for identifying the dark matter cosmic web environments of galaxies. Large galaxy surveys offer comprehensive statistical views of how galaxy properties are shaped by large-scale…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-02 Dakshesh Kololgi , Krishna Naidoo , Amelie Saintonge , Ofer Lahav

Inspired by the feedforward multilayer perceptron (FF-MLP), decision tree (DT) and extreme learning machine (ELM), a new classification model, called the subspace learning machine (SLM), is proposed in this work. SLM first identifies a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Hongyu Fu , Yijing Yang , Vinod K. Mishra , C. -C. Jay Kuo

We present a new non-parametric method to quantify morphologies of galaxies based on a particular family of learning machines called support vector machines. The method, that can be seen as a generalization of the classical CAS…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Huertas-Company , D. Rouan , L. Tasca , G. Soucail , O. Le Fevre

Surrogate models play a crucial role in retrospectively interpreting complex and powerful black box machine learning models via model distillation. This paper focuses on using model-based trees as surrogate models which partition the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-06 Julia Herbinger , Susanne Dandl , Fiona K. Ewald , Sofia Loibl , Giuseppe Casalicchio

Random forests are a machine learning method used to automatically classify datasets and consist of a multitude of decision trees. While these random forests often have higher performance and generalize better than a single decision tree,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Max Sondag , Christofer Meinecke , Dennis Collaris , Tatiana von Landesberger , Stef van den Elzen

The two currently largest all-sky photometric datasets, WISE and SuperCOSMOS, were cross-matched by Bilicki et al. (2016) (B16) to construct a novel photometric redshift catalogue on 70% of the sky. Galaxies were therein separated from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-30 T. Krakowski , K. Małek , M. Bilicki , A. Pollo , M. Krupa , A. Kurcz

In our previous works, we proposed a machine learning framework named \texttt{USmorph} for efficiently classifying galaxy morphology. In this study, we propose a self-supervised method called contrastive learning to upgrade the unsupervised…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-19 Shiwei Zhu , Guanwen Fang , Chichun Zhou , Jie Song , Zesen Lin , Yao Dai , Xu Kong

A well-designed fine-grained categorization system usually has three contradictory requirements: accuracy (the ability to identify objects among subordinate categories); interpretability (the ability to provide human-understandable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-05 Shaoli Huang , Dacheng Tao

The environment plays a critical role in galaxy evolution, with galaxy clusters and their infall regions offering diverse conditions that shape galaxies before they enter the dense cluster core, a process known as ``pre-processing''.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-15 Rhys Jordan , Meghan E. Gray , Alfonso Aragón-Salamanca , Steven P. Bamford , Frazer R. Pearce , Roan Haggar

Prototype-based methods use interpretable representations to address the black-box nature of deep learning models, in contrast to post-hoc explanation methods that only approximate such models. We propose the Neural Prototype Tree…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Meike Nauta , Ron van Bree , Christin Seifert

In order to obtain morphological information of unlabeled galaxies, we present an unsupervised machine-learning (UML) method for morphological classification of galaxies, which can be summarized as two aspects: (1) the methodology of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-02 C. C. Zhou , Y. Z. Gu , G. W. Fang , Z. S. Lin

We introduce a new machine learning based technique to detect exoplanets using the transit method. Machine learning and deep learning techniques have proven to be broadly applicable in various scientific research areas. We aim to exploit…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-05 Abhishek Malik , Benjamin P. Moster , Christian Obermeier

Ground-based optical surveys such as PanSTARRS, DES, and LSST, will produce large catalogs to limiting magnitudes of r > 24. Star-galaxy separation poses a major challenge to such surveys because galaxies---even very compact…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Ross Fadely , David W. Hogg , Beth Willman

Microlensing of stars in our Galaxy has long been used to detect and characterize stellar populations, exoplanets, brown dwarfs, stellar remnants and whatever objects may magnify the source stars with their gravitational fields. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-07 V. Bozza

Masked autoencoding has achieved great success for self-supervised learning in the image and language domains. However, mask based pretraining has yet to show benefits for point cloud understanding, likely due to standard backbones like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Haotian Liu , Mu Cai , Yong Jae Lee

Deep learning models have achieved promising results in breast cancer classification, yet their 'black-box' nature raises interpretability concerns. This research addresses the crucial need to gain insights into the decision-making process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Ann-Kristin Balve , Peter Hendrix