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We apply one of lazy learning methods named k-nearest neighbor algorithm (kNN) to estimate the photometric redshifts of quasars, based on various datasets from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-22 Zhang Yanxia , Ma He , Peng Nanbo , Zhao Yongheng , Wu Xue-bing

Based on the SDSS and SDSS-WISE quasar datasets, we put forward two schemes to estimate the photometric redshifts of quasars. Our schemes are based on the idea that the samples are firstly classified into subsamples by a classifier and then…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-05 Yanxia Zhang , Jingyi Zhang , Xin Jin , Yongheng Zhao

The massive photometric data collected from multiple large-scale sky surveys offer significant opportunities for measuring distances of celestial objects by photometric redshifts. However, catastrophic failure is still an unsolved problem…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-25 Bo Han , Hongpeng Ding , Yanxia Zhang , Yongheng Zhao

Accurate redshift measurements are essential for studying the evolution of quasi-stellar objects (QSOs) and their role in cosmic structure formation. While spectroscopic redshifts provide high precision, they are impractical for the vast…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-08 Jeremy P. Moss , Stephen J. Curran , Yvette C. Perrott

The scientific value of the next generation of large continuum surveys would be greatly increased if the redshifts of the newly detected sources could be rapidly and reliably estimated. Given the observational expense of obtaining…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-03 S. J. Curran , J. P. Moss , Y. C. Perrott

We aim to determine the most effective approach for estimating uncertainties in quasar photo-$z$ and to evaluate the ability of different models to reconstruct the true redshift distribution under varying data quality. We use photometric…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-23 Kacper Drabicki , Szymon J. Nakoneczny , Maciej Bilicki

We apply a convolutional neural network (CNN) to classify and detect quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Stripe 82 and also to predict the photometric redshifts of quasars. The network takes the variability of objects into account by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-11 Johanna Pasquet-Itam , Jérôme Pasquet

We apply machine learning in the form of a nearest neighbor instance-based algorithm (NN) to generate full photometric redshift probability density functions (PDFs) for objects in the Fifth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS…

This paper presents a novel quantum K-nearest neighbors (QKNN) algorithm, which offers improved performance over the classical k-NN technique by incorporating quantum computing (QC) techniques to enhance classification accuracy,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Asif Akhtab Ronggon , Md. Saifur Rahman

We present a new approach to the problem of estimating the redshift of galaxies from photometric data. The approach uses a genetic algorithm combined with non-linear regression to model the 2SLAQ LRG data set with SDSS DR7 photometry. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-14 Robert Hogan , Malcolm Fairbairn , Navin Seeburn

Machine learning techniques, specifically the k-nearest neighbour algorithm applied to optical band colours, have had some success in predicting photometric redshifts of quasi-stellar objects (QSOs): Although the mean of differences between…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-29 S. J. Curran

We apply instance-based machine learning in the form of a k-nearest neighbor algorithm to the task of estimating photometric redshifts for 55,746 objects spectroscopically classified as quasars in the Fifth Data Release of the Sloan Digital…

Gravitational-wave detection strategies are based on a signal analysis technique known as matched filtering. Despite the success of matched filtering, due to its computational cost, there has been recent interest in developing deep…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-03 Dwyer S. Deighan , Scott E. Field , Collin D. Capano , Gaurav Khanna

The k-Nearest Neighbor (kNN) classification approach is conceptually simple - yet widely applied since it often performs well in practical applications. However, using a global constant k does not always provide an optimal solution, e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Mark Kibanov , Martin Becker , Juergen Mueller , Martin Atzmueller , Andreas Hotho , Gerd Stumme

K-Nearest neighbor classifier (k-NNC) is simple to use and has little design time like finding k values in k-nearest neighbor classifier, hence these are suitable to work with dynamically varying data-sets. There exists some fundamental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-01-29 T. Hitendra Sarma , P. Viswanath , D. Sai Koti Reddy , S. Sri Raghava

K-nearest neighbors (KNN) is one of the earliest and most established algorithms in machine learning. For regression tasks, KNN averages the targets within a neighborhood which poses a number of challenges: the neighborhood definition is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Youssef Nader , Leon Sixt , Tim Landgraf

We propose a Multimodal Machine Learning method for estimating the Photometric Redshifts of quasars (PhotoRedshift-MML for short), which has long been the subject of many investigations. Our method includes two main models, i.e. the feature…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-09 Shuxin Hong , Zhiqiang Zou , A-Li Luo , Xiao Kong , Wenyu Yang , Yanli Chen

Accurate redshift estimates are a vital component in understanding galaxy evolution and precision cosmology. In this paper, we explore approaches to increase the applicability of machine learning models for photometric redshift estimation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-27 Jonathan Soriano , Tuan Do , Srinath Saikrishnan , Vikram Seenivasan , Bernie Boscoe , Jack Singal , Evan Jones

Three-dimensional wide-field galaxy surveys are fundamental for cosmological studies. For higher redshifts (z > 1.0), where galaxies are too faint, quasars still trace the large-scale structure of the Universe. Since available telescope…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Sándor Kunsági-Máté , Róbert Beck , István Szapudi , István Csabai

This paper presents a comprehensive study of quasar photometric classification and redshift estimation using machine learning techniques. We cross-matched photometric data from the Dark Energy Survey Data Release 2 (DES DR2) with…

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