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We present a method for calculating large numbers of power spectra C_l and P(k) that accelerates CMBfast by a factor around 10^3 without appreciable loss of accuracy, then apply it to constrain 11 cosmological parameters from current Cosmic…

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We present a method for accelerating the calculation of CMB power spectra, matter power spectra and likelihood functions for use in cosmological parameter estimation. The algorithm, called CosmoNet, is based on training a multilayer…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 T. Auld , M. Bridges , M. P. Hobson , S. F. Gull

Clustering based on belief functions has been gaining increasing attention in the machine learning community due to its ability to effectively represent uncertainty and/or imprecision. However, none of the existing algorithms can be applied…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Armel Soubeiga , Thomas Guyet , Violaine Antoine

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) stands as a pivotal source for studying weak gravitational lensing. While the lensed CMB aids in constraining cosmological parameters, it simultaneously smooths the original CMB's features. The angular…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-17 Shulei Ni , Yichao Li , Xin Zhang

We present a formalism for performance forecasting and optimization of future cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments. We implement it in the context of nearly full sky, multifrequency, B-mode polarization observations, incorporating…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 Josquin Errard , Federico Stivoli , Radek Stompor

Sub-grid scale parameterizations in atmospheric models involve numerous uncertain parameters that must be tuned to align simulations with observations. Here, we propose a framework for assessing objective tuning frameworks using the Single…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Pappu Paul , Cristian Proistosescu

Traditional weak gravitational lensing shear estimators are carefully calibrated but struggle to fully capture realistic galaxy morphologies, point-spread-function (PSF) effects, blending, and noise in deep surveys, while blindly trained…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-20 Shurui Lin , Xiangchong Li , Ji Li , Shengcao Cao , Xin Liu , Yu-Xiong Wang

We present a CMB temperature power spectrum measurement at large angular scales from WMAP and Planck maps that were cleaned of foregrounds using a template-based approach described in a companion paper. We recover essentially the full-sky…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-05 Hayley C. Nofi , Graeme E. Addison , Charles L. Bennett , Laura Herold , J. L. Weiland

Lensing of the CMB by modes that are larger than the size of the survey dilates intrinsic scales in the temperature and polarization fields and coherently shifts their observed power spectra with respect to the ensemble or all-sky mean. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-09 Alessandro Manzotti , Wayne Hu , Aurélien Benoit-Lévy

Contrastive self-supervised learning (CSL) for speaker verification (SV) has drawn increasing interest recently due to its ability to exploit unlabeled data. Performing data augmentation on raw waveforms, such as adding noise or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-12 Chong-Xin Gan , Man-Wai Mak , Weiwei Lin , Jen-Tzung Chien

We develop optimised estimators of two sorts of power spectra for fields defined on the sky, in the presence of partial sky coverage. The first is the cross-power spectrum of two fields on the sky; the second is the skew spectrum of three…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Dipak Munshi , Patrick Valageas , Asantha Cooray , Alan Heavens

We use an iterative generalized least squares map-making algorithm, in conjunction with Monte Carlo techniques, to obtain estimates of the angular power spectrum from cosmic microwave background (CMB) maps. This is achieved by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Balbi , G. de Gasperis , P. Natoli , N. Vittorio

Hyperspectral unmixing (HSU) aims to separate each pixel into its constituent endmembers and estimate their corresponding abundance fractions. This work presents an algorithm-unrolling-based network for the HSU task, named the 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Gargi Panda , Soumitra Kundu , Saumik Bhattacharya , Aurobinda Routray

We explore a novel analysis framework for parameter inference with large-scale CMB polarization data. Our method uses simulation-based inference combined with the needlet internal linear combination (NILC) algorithm and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-19 Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden , Kristen Surrao , Adrian E. Bayer , Alexandre E. Adler , Nadia Dachlythra , Susanna Azzoni , J. Colin Hill

Optimal power spectrum estimation on the largest angular scales of the cosmic microwave background relies on the Quadratic Maximum Likelihood (QML) estimator. Existing public implementations, however, each address only a subset of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-21 Giacomo Galloni , Luca Pagano

We present trispectrum estimation methods which can be applied to general non-separable primordial and CMB trispectra. We present a general optimal estimator for the connected part of the trispectrum, for which we derive a quadratic term to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 D. M. Regan , E. P. S. Shellard , J. R. Fergusson

I present CMBAnalysis, a state-of-the-art Python framework designed for high-precision analysis of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation data. This comprehensive package implements parallel Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) techniques…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-20 Srikrishna S Kashyap

We present CosmicANNEstimator (Cosmological Parameters Artificial Neural Network Estimator), a machine learning approach for constraining cosmological parameters within the Lambda Cold Dark Matter ($\Lambda$CDM) framework. Our methodology…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-07 Ashly Joseph , Albin Joseph , Christina Terese Joseph , John Paul Martin , Sunil Kumar PV , Sarthak Giri

Forthcoming high-resolution observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation will generate datasets many orders of magnitude larger than have been obtained to date. The size and complexity of such datasets presents a very…

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