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Machine learning has rapidly become a tool of choice for the astronomical community. It is being applied across a wide range of wavelengths and problems, from the classification of transients to neural network emulators of cosmological…

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We review some aspects of the current state of data-intensive astronomy, its methods, and some outstanding data analysis challenges. Astronomy is at the forefront of "big data" science, with exponentially growing data volumes and data…

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Astronomy has entered the big data era and Machine Learning based methods have found widespread use in a large variety of astronomical applications. This is demonstrated by the recent huge increase in the number of publications making use…

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Machine learning has rose to become an important research tool in the past decade, its application has been expanded to almost if not all disciplines known to mankind. Particularly, the use of machine learning in astrophysics research had a…

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Astronomy has entered the multi-messenger data era and Machine Learning has found widespread use in a large variety of applications. The exploitation of synoptic (multi-band and multi-epoch) surveys, like LSST (Legacy Survey of Space and…

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Classification is a popular task in the field of Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), and it happens when outputs are categorical variables. There are a wide variety of models that attempts to draw some conclusions from…

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Astroinformatics is a new impact area in the world of astronomy, occasionally called the final frontier, where several astrophysicists, statisticians and computer scientists work together to tackle various data intensive astronomical…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2015-04-30 Snehanshu Saha , Surbhi Agrawal , Manikandan. R , Kakoli Bora , Swati Routh , Anand Narasimhamurthy

Large, freely available, well-maintained data sets have made astronomy a popular playground for machine learning projects. Nevertheless, robust insights gained to both machine learning and physics could be improved by clarity in problem…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-13 Johannes Buchner , Sotiria Fotopoulou

The rapid advancement of observational capabilities in astronomy has led to an exponential growth in the volume of light curve (LC) data, creating both opportunities and challenges for time-domain astronomy. Traditional analytical methods…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-16 Almat Akhmetali , Alisher Zhunuskanov , Aknur Sakan , Marat Zaidyn , Timur Namazbayev , Dana Turlykozhayeva , Nurzhan Ussipov

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

Nowadays there is no field research which is not flooded with data. Among the sciences, Astrophysics has always been driven by the analysis of massive amounts of data. The development of new and more sophisticated observation facilities,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-14 Mauro Garofalo , Alessio Botta , Giorgio Ventre

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…

We summarize the first exploratory investigation into whether Machine Learning techniques can augment science strategic planning. We find that an approach based on Latent Dirichlet Allocation using abstracts drawn from high impact astronomy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-03 Brian Thomas , Harley Thronson , Anthony Buonomo , Louis Barbier

Astronomy is entering an era of data-driven discovery, due in part to modern machine learning (ML) techniques enabling powerful new ways to interpret observations. This shift in our scientific approach requires us to consider whether we can…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-30 Michelle Ntampaka , Matthew Ho , Brian Nord

We present recent results from the LCDM (Laboratory for Cosmological Data Mining; http://lcdm.astro.uiuc.edu) collaboration between UIUC Astronomy and NCSA to deploy supercomputing cluster resources and machine learning algorithms for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-04-29 Nicholas M. Ball , Robert J. Brunner , Adam D. Myers

The amount and complexity of data delivered by modern galaxy surveys has been steadily increasing over the past years. Extracting coherent scientific information from these large and multi-modal data sets remains an open issue and data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-18 Marc Huertas-Company , François Lanusse

Data volumes from multiple sky surveys have grown from gigabytes into terabytes during the past decade, and will grow from terabytes into tens (or hundreds) of petabytes in the next decade. This exponential growth of new data both enables…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-04 Kirk D. Borne

This project outlines the complete development of a variable star classification algorithm methodology. With the advent of Big-Data in astronomy, professional astronomers are left with the problem of how to manage large amounts of data, and…

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