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Dark matter haloes play a fundamental role in cosmological structure formation. The most common approach to model their assembly mechanisms is through N-body simulations. In this work we present an innovative pathway to predict dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-15 Mauro Bernardini , Lucio Mayer , Darren Reed , Robert Feldmann

We propose a lightweight deep convolutional neural network (lCNN) to estimate cosmological parameters from simulated three-dimensional dark matter (DM) halo distributions and associated statistics. The training dataset comprises 2000…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-20 Zhiwei Min , Xu Xiao , Jiacheng Ding , Liang Xiao , Jie Jiang , Donglin Wu , Qiufan Lin , Yang Wang , Shuai Liu , Zhixin Chen , Xiangru Li , Jinqu Zhang , Le Zhang , Xiao-Dong Li

We present a detailed description and validation of our massively-parallel update to the mass-Peak Patch method, a fully predictive initial-space algorithm to quickly generate dark matter halo catalogues in very large cosmological volumes.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-05 George Stein , Marcelo A. Alvarez , J. Richard Bond

Generative deep learning methods built upon Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) provide a great tool for predicting non-linear structure in cosmology. In this work we predict high resolution dark matter halos from large scale, low…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-25 David Schaurecker , Yin Li , Jeremy Tinker , Shirley Ho , Alexandre Refregier

Mock halo catalogues are indispensable data products for developing and validating cosmological inference pipelines. A major challenge in generating mock catalogues is modelling the halo or galaxy bias, which is the mapping from matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-16 Simon Ding , Guilhem Lavaux , Jens Jasche

The formation of dark-matter halos from small cosmological perturbations generated in the early universe is a highly non-linear process typically modeled through N-body simulations. In this work, we explore the use of deep learning to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-07 Toka Alokda , Cristiano Porciani

We present a deep-learning-based approach for identifying dark matter haloes in cosmological N-body simulations. Our framework consists of a volumetric Convolutional Neural Network to classify individual simulation particles as either halo…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-26 Soumadeep Maiti , Carlos M. Correa , Andrea Fiorilli , Andrés N. Ruiz , Dante J. Paz , Alejandro Pérez Fernández , Ariel G. Sánchez

We discuss an implementation of a deep learning framework to gain insight into dark matter (DM) structure formation. We investigate the contribution of velocity and density field information to the construction of the halo mass function…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-13 Saba Etezad-Razavi , Erfan Abbasgholinejad , Mohammad-Hadi Sotoudeh , Farbod Hassani , Sadegh Raeisi , Shant Baghram

A novel method images to estimate cosmological parameters based on images is presented. In this paper, we demonstrate the use of a convolutional neural network (CNN) for constraining the mass of dark matter particle. For this purpose, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-08 Koya Murakami , Atsushi J. Nishizawa

Galaxies are theorized to form and co-evolve with their dark matter halos, such that their stellar masses and halo masses should be well-correlated. However, it is not known whether other observable galaxy features, such as their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-19 Austin J. Larson , John F. Wu , Craig Jones

We present a novel halo painting network that learns to map approximate 3D dark matter fields to realistic halo distributions. This map is provided via a physically motivated network with which we can learn the non-trivial local relation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Doogesh Kodi Ramanah , Tom Charnock , Guilhem Lavaux

Galaxies grow and evolve in dark matter halos. Because dark matter is not visible, galaxies' halo masses ($\rm{M}_{\rm{halo}}$) must be inferred indirectly. We present a graph neural network (GNN) model for predicting $\rm{M}_{\rm{halo}}$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-20 Nikhil Garuda , John F. Wu , Dylan Nelson , Annalisa Pillepich

The possibility to constrain cosmological parameters from galaxy surveys using field-level machine learning methods that bypass traditional summary statistics analyses, depends crucially on our ability to generate simulated training sets.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-11 Iñigo Sáez-Casares , Matteo Calabrese , Davide Bianchi , Marina S. Cagliari , Marco Chiarenza , Jean-Marc Christille , Luigi Guzzo

High-resolution cosmological N-body simulations are excellent tools for modelling the formation and clustering of dark matter haloes. These simulations suggest complex physical theories of halo formation governed by a set of effective…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-24 Androniki Dimitriou , Christoph Weniger , Camila A. Correa

Machine learning has the potential to improve the reconstruction of the dark matter profile of galaxies with respect to traditional methods, like rotation curves. We demonstrate on the simulation suite Illustris-TNG that a steerable…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-23 Martín de los Rios , Serafina Di Gioia , Fabio Iocco , Roberto Trotta

We build a deep learning framework that connects the local formation process of dark matter halos to the halo bias. We train a convolutional neural network (CNN) to predict the final mass and concentration of dark matter halos from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-12 Luisa Lucie-Smith , Alexandre Barreira , Fabian Schmidt

Strong gravitational lensing is a promising way of uncovering the nature of dark matter, by finding perturbations to images that cannot be well accounted for by modeling the lens galaxy without additional structure, be it subhalos (smaller…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-29 Ana Diaz Rivero , Cora Dvorkin

Extracting cosmological parameters from galaxy/halo catalogues with sub-percent level accuracy is an important aspect of modern cosmology, especially in view of ongoing and upcoming surveys such as Euclid, DESI, and LSST. While traditional…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-18 Atrideb Chatterjee , Arka Banerjee , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Tom Abel

This work explores the ability of computer vision algorithms to characterise dark matter haloes formed in different models of structure formation. We produce surface mass density maps of the most massive haloes in a suite of eight numerical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-19 Julian Merten , Quim Llorens , Hans Winther

We train a novel deep learning architecture to perform likelihood-free inference on the value of the cosmological parameters from halo catalogs of the Quijote N-body simulations. Our model takes as input a halo catalog where each halo is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-23 Atrideb Chatterjee , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro
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