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This paper explores the application of Probabilistic Neural Network (PNN), Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Kmeans clustering as tools for automated classification of massive stellar spectra.

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With the volume and availability of astronomical data growing rapidly, astronomers will soon rely on the use of machine learning algorithms in their daily work. This proceeding aims to give an overview of what machine learning is and delve…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-06 Sara A. Webb , Simon R. Goode

The Javalambre Photometric Local Universe Survey (J-PLUS) is a 12-band photometric survey using the 83-cm JAST telescope. Data Release 3 includes 47.4 million sources. J-PLUS DR3 only provides star-galaxy classification so that quasars are…

Thanks to incredible advances in instrumentation, surveys like the Sloan Digital Sky Survey have been able to find and catalog billions of objects, ranging from local M dwarfs to distant quasars. Machine learning algorithms have greatly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-15 Trevor Dorn-Wallenstein , Emily Levesque

Machine learning is a field that has been growing in importance since the early 2010s due to the increasing accuracy of classification models and hardware advances that have enabled faster training on large datasets. In the field of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-15 Alexis Mathis , Daniel Yu , Nolan Faught , Tyrian Hobbs.

Over the past 30 years, numerous large-scale photometric astronomical surveys have been conducted, including SDSS, Pan-STARRS, Gaia,2MASS, WISE, and others. These surveys provide extensive photometric measurements that can be used to infer…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-03 Mateusz Kapusta

Supervised artificial neural networks are used to predict useful properties of galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, in this instance morphological classifications, spectral types and redshifts. By giving the trained networks unseen…

Context: Given the current big data era in Astronomy, machine learning based methods have being applied over the last years to identify or classify objects like quasars, galaxies and stars from full sky photometric surveys. Aims: Here we…

In this work we introduce a novel approach to the pulsar classification problem in time-domain radio astronomy using a Born machine, often referred to as a quantum neural network. Using a single-qubit architecture, we show that the pulsar…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-13 Mohammad Kordzanganeh , Aydin Utting , Anna Scaife

Unveiling the evolutionary history of galaxies necessitates a precise understanding of their physical properties. Traditionally, astronomers achieve this through spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting. However, this approach can be…

Astronomical observations already produce vast amounts of data through a new generation of telescopes that cannot be analyzed manually. Next-generation telescopes such as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and the Square Kilometer Array…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-09 Giuseppe Longo , Erzsébet Merényi , Peter Tino

We evaluate the performance of four different machine learning (ML) algorithms: an Artificial Neural Network Multi-Layer Perceptron (ANN MLP ), Adaboost, Gradient Boosting Classifier (GBC), XGBoost, for the separation of pulsars from radio…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-06 Suryarao Bethapudi , Shantanu Desai

We employ the XGBoost machine learning (ML) method for the morphological classification of galaxies into two (early-type, late-type) and five (E, S0--S0a, Sa--Sb, Sbc--Scd, Sd--Irr) classes, using a combination of non-parametric…

In recent decades, artificial intelligence (AI) including machine learning (ML) have become vital for space missions enabling rapid data processing, advanced pattern recognition, and enhanced insight extraction. These tools are especially…

Machine learning applications are limited by computational power. In this paper, we gain novel insights into the application of quantum annealing (QA) to machine learning (ML) through experiments in natural language processing (NLP),…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-28 Joseph Dulny , Michael Kim

We present recent results from the Laboratory for Cosmological Data Mining (http://lcdm.astro.uiuc.edu) at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) to provide robust classifications and photometric redshifts for objects in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-25 Nicholas M. Ball , Robert J. Brunner , Adam D. Myers

In this work we explore the possibility of applying machine learning methods designed for one-dimensional problems to the task of galaxy image classification. The algorithms used for image classification typically rely on multiple costly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-23 F. Tarsitano , C. Bruderer , K. Schawinski , W. G. Hartley

Machine-learning based classifiers have become indispensable in the field of astrophysics, allowing separation of astronomical sources into various classes, with computational efficiency suitable for application to the enormous data volumes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-26 A. Humphrey , W. Kuberski , J. Bialek , N. Perrakis , W. Cools , N. Nuyttens , H. Elakhrass , P. A. C. Cunha

We present an analysis of a general machine learning technique called 'stacking' for the estimation of photometric redshifts. Stacking techniques can feed the photometric redshift estimate, as output by a base algorithm, back into the same…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-27 Roman Zitlau , Ben Hoyle , Kerstin Paech , Jochen Weller , Markus Michael Rau , Stella Seitz

In this paper we describe the use of a new artificial neural network, called the difference boosting neural network (DBNN), for automated classification problems in astronomical data analysis. We illustrate the capabilities of the network…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ninan Sajeeth Philip , Yogesh Wadadekar , Ajit Kembhavi , K. Babu Joseph