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This review summarizes popular unsupervised learning methods, and gives an overview of their past, current, and future uses in astronomy. Unsupervised learning aims to organise the information content of a dataset, in such a way that…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-26 Sotiria Fotopoulou

A fundamental problem in manifold learning is to approximate a functional relationship in a data chosen randomly from a probability distribution supported on a low dimensional sub-manifold of a high dimensional ambient Euclidean space. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-11 H. N. Mhaskar , Ryan O'Dowd

We describe the development of a system for an automated, iterative, real-time classification of transient events discovered in synoptic sky surveys. The system under development incorporates a number of Machine Learning techniques, mostly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-24 S. G. Djorgovski , C. Donalek , A. Mahabal , B. Moghaddam , M. Turmon , M. Graham , A. Drake , N. Sharma , Y. Chen

In recent years, machine learning (ML) methods have remarkably improved how cosmologists can interpret data. The next decade will bring new opportunities for data-driven cosmological discovery, but will also present new challenges for…

Learning to transfer considers learning solutions to tasks in a such way that relevant knowledge can be transferred from known task solutions to new, related tasks. This is important for general learning, as well as for improving the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Janith Petangoda , Marc Peter Deisenroth , Nicholas A. M. Monk

A persistent challenge in astronomical machine learning is a systematic bias where predictions compress the dynamic range of true values-high values are consistently predicted too low while low values are predicted too high. Understanding…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-17 Yuan-Sen Ting

While conditional diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in various applications, they require abundant data to train from scratch, which is often infeasible in practice. To address this issue, transfer learning has emerged as an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Ziheng Cheng , Tianyu Xie , Shiyue Zhang , Cheng Zhang

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

Transfer learning plays a key role in modern data analysis when: (1) the target data are scarce but the source data are sufficient; (2) the distributions of the source and target data are heterogeneous. This paper develops an interpretable…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-01-31 Shuo Shuo Liu

In astronomy, neural networks are often trained on simulation data with the prospect of being used on telescope observations. Unfortunately, training a model on simulation data and then applying it to instrument data leads to a substantial…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-16 A. Ćiprijanović , D. Kafkes , K. Downey , S. Jenkins , G. N. Perdue , S. Madireddy , T. Johnston , G. F. Snyder , B. Nord

Deep learning methodologies have been employed in several different fields, with an outstanding success in image recognition applications, such as material quality control, medical imaging, autonomous driving, etc. Deep learning models rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Saul Calderon-Ramirez , Shengxiang Yang , David Elizondo

Zero-shot learning transfers knowledge from seen classes to novel unseen classes to reduce human labor of labelling data for building new classifiers. Much effort on zero-shot learning however has focused on the standard multi-class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Meng Ye , Yuhong Guo

Task transfer learning is a popular technique in image processing applications that uses pre-trained models to reduce the supervision cost of related tasks. An important question is to determine task transferability, i.e. given a common…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Yajie Bao , Yang Li , Shao-Lun Huang , Lin Zhang , Lizhong Zheng , Amir Zamir , Leonidas Guibas

Transfer learning enhances learning across tasks, by leveraging previously learned representations -- if they are properly chosen. We describe an efficient method to accurately estimate the appropriateness of a previously trained model for…

In recent years, automated, supervised classification techniques have been fruitfully applied to labeling and organizing large astronomical databases. These methods require off-line classifier training, based on labeled examples from each…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 David Bazell , David J. Miller

All sciences, including astronomy, are now entering the era of information abundance. The exponentially increasing volume and complexity of modern data sets promises to transform the scientific practice, but also poses a number of common…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-17 S. G. Djorgovski

The world we see is ever-changing and it always changes with people, things, and the environment. Domain is referred to as the state of the world at a certain moment. A research problem is characterized as transfer adaptation learning (TAL)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Lei Zhang , Xinbo Gao

Single-task learning in artificial neural networks will be able to learn the model very well, and the benefits brought by transferring knowledge thus become limited. In this regard, when the number of tasks increases (e.g., semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Mohammad R. Bayanlou , Mehdi Khoshboresh-Masouleh

With outstanding features, Machine Learning (ML) has been the backbone of numerous applications in wireless networks. However, the conventional ML approaches have been facing many challenges in practical implementation, such as the lack of…

Learning from small amounts of labeled data is a challenge in the area of deep learning. This is currently addressed by Transfer Learning where one learns the small data set as a transfer task from a larger source dataset. Transfer Learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Parijat Dube , Bishwaranjan Bhattacharjee , Elisabeth Petit-Bois , Matthew Hill