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The interpretation of cosmological observables requires the use of increasingly sophisticated theoretical models. Since these models are becoming computationally very expensive and display non-trivial uncertainties, the use of standard…

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The fluctuations produced during cosmic inflation may exhibit non-Gaussian characteristics that are imprinted in the large-scale structure of the Universe. This non-Gaussian imprint is an ultra-large scale signal that can be detected using…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-11 Mponeng Kopana , Sheean Jolicoeur , Roy Maartens

We compute the connected four point correlation function (the trispectrum in Fourier space) of cosmological density perturbations at one-loop order in Standard Perturbation Theory (SPT) and the Effective Field Theory of Large Scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-06 Daniele Bertolini , Katelin Schutz , Mikhail P. Solon , Kathryn M. Zurek

We present SPECULATOR - a fast, accurate, and flexible framework for emulating stellar population synthesis (SPS) models for predicting galaxy spectra and photometry. For emulating spectra, we use principal component analysis to construct a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-08 Justin Alsing , Hiranya Peiris , Joel Leja , ChangHoon Hahn , Rita Tojeiro , Daniel Mortlock , Boris Leistedt , Benjamin D. Johnson , Charlie Conroy

Simultaneous inference for high-dimensional non-Gaussian time series is always considered to be a challenging problem. Such tasks require not only robust estimation of the coefficients in the random process, but also deriving limiting…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-11-03 Linbo Liu , Danna Zhang

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently gained significant attention for high-quality and efficient view synthesis, making it widely adopted in fields such as AR/VR, robotics, and autonomous driving. Despite its impressive algorithmic…

Previous work generally believes that improving the spatial invariance of convolutional networks is the key to object counting. However, after verifying several mainstream counting networks, we surprisingly found too strict pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Zhi-Qi Cheng , Qi Dai , Hong Li , JingKuan Song , Xiao Wu , Alexander G. Hauptmann

We present a new method for estimating multivariate, second-order stationary Gaussian Random Field (GRF) models based on the Sparse Precision matrix Selection (SPS) algorithm, proposed by Davanloo et al. (2015) for estimating scalar GRF…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-12 Sam Davanloo Tajbakhsh , Necdet Serhat Aybat , Enrique del Castillo

This paper proposes novel noise-free Bayesian optimization strategies that rely on a random exploration step to enhance the accuracy of Gaussian process surrogate models. The new algorithms retain the ease of implementation of the classical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Hwanwoo Kim , Daniel Sanz-Alonso

Convolved Gaussian Process (CGP) is able to capture the correlations not only between inputs and outputs but also among the outputs. This allows a superior performance of using CGP than standard Gaussian Process (GP) in the modelling of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-14 Gang Cao , Edmund M-K Lai , Fakhrul Alam

Nonlinear reformulations of the spectral clustering method have gained a lot of recent attention due to their increased numerical benefits and their solid mathematical background. However, the estimation of the multiple nonlinear…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Dimosthenis Pasadakis , Olaf Schenk , Verner Vlacic , Albert-Jan Yzelman

Cosmological information from forthcoming galaxy surveys, such as LSST and Euclid, will soon exceed that available from the CMB. Higher order correlation functions, like the bispectrum, will be indispensable for realising this potential.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-06 Johnathan Hung , James R. Fergusson , E. P. S. Shellard

Accurate covariance matrices for two-point functions are critical for inferring cosmological parameters in likelihood analyses of large-scale structure surveys. Among various approaches to obtaining the covariance, analytic computation is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-23 Xiao Fang , Tim Eifler , Elisabeth Krause

This work aims to improve the sample efficiency of parallel large-scale ranking and selection (R&S) problems by leveraging correlation information. We modify the commonly used "divide and conquer" framework in parallel computing by adding a…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-16 Zishi Zhang , Yijie Peng

In this work, we develop a simulation-based model to predict the density split (DSS) and second-order shear and clustering statistics. A simulation-based model has the potential to model highly non-linear scales where current DSS models…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-11 Pierre A. Burger , Enrique Paillas , Michael J. Hudson

We propose maximum likelihood estimation for learning Gaussian graphical models with a Gaussian (ell_2^2) prior on the parameters. This is in contrast to the commonly used Laplace (ell_1) prior for encouraging sparseness. We show that our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Jean Honorio , Tommi S. Jaakkola

Here we show how to produce a 3D density field with a given set of higher-order correlation functions. Our algorithm enables producing any desired two-point, three-point, and four-point functions, including odd-parity for the latter. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-16 Zachary Slepian

A high-order quadrature algorithm is presented for computing integrals over curved surfaces and volumes whose geometry is implicitly defined by the level sets of (one or more) multivariate polynomials. The algorithm recasts the implicitly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-24 Robert I. Saye

The large-scale structure is a major source of cosmological information. However, next-generation photometric galaxy surveys will only provide a distorted view of cosmic structures due to large redshift uncertainties. To address the need…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-10 Eleni Tsaprazi , Jens Jasche , Guilhem Lavaux , Florent Leclercq