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The increasingly large amount of cosmological data coming from ground-based and space-borne telescopes requires highly efficient and fast enough data analysis techniques to maximise the scientific exploitation. In this work, we explore the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-22 Niccolò Veronesi , Federico Marulli , Alfonso Veropalumbo , Lauro Moscardini

Understanding the impact of halo properties beyond halo mass on the clustering of galaxies (namely galaxy assembly bias) remains a challenge for contemporary models of galaxy clustering. We explore the use of machine learning to predict the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-15 Xiaoju Xu , Saurabh Kumar , Idit Zehavi , Sergio Contreras

The interaction properties of cold dark matter (CDM) particle candidates, such as those of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), generically lead to the structuring of dark matter on scales much smaller than typical galaxies,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Martin Stref , Julien Lavalle

We study the impact of warm dark matter (WDM) particle mass on galaxy properties using 1,024 state-of-the-art cosmological hydrodynamical simulations from the DREAMS project. We begin by using a Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) coupled with a…

Neural networks are being used to make new types of empirical chemical models as inexpensive as force fields, but with accuracy close to the ab-initio methods used to build them. Besides modeling potential energy surfaces, neural-nets can…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-05-05 Kun Yao , John Herr , Seth Brown , John Parkhill

We develop a new empirical methodology to study the relation between the stellar mass of galaxies and the mass of their host subhaloes. Our approach is similar to abundance matching, and is based on assigning a stellar mass to each subhalo…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Eyal Neistein , Cheng Li , Sadegh Khochfar , Simone M. Weinmann , Francesco Shankar , Michael Boylan-Kolchin

The weight space of an artificial neural network can be systematically explored using tools from statistical mechanics. We employ a combination of a hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm which performs long exploration steps, a ratchet-based…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-07-25 Alessandro Zambon , Enrico M. Malatesta , Guido Tiana , Riccardo Zecchina

Accurately predicting the abundance and structural evolution of dark matter subhaloes is crucial for understanding galaxy formation, modeling galaxy clustering, and constraining the nature of dark matter. Due to the nonlinear nature of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-22 Sheridan B. Green , Frank C. van den Bosch

We examine the properties of dark matter halos within a rich galaxy cluster using a high resolution simulation that captures the cosmological context of a cold dark matter universe. The mass and force resolution permit the resolution of 150…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Sebastiano Ghigna , Ben Moore , Fabio Governato , George Lake , Thomas Quinn , Joachim Stadel

There has been a long history of works showing that neural networks have hard time extrapolating beyond the training set. A recent study by Balestriero et al. (2021) challenges this view: defining interpolation as the state of belonging to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Laurent Bonnasse-Gahot

We present a new method by which the total masses of galaxies including dark matter can be estimated from the kinematics of their globular cluster systems (GCSs). In the proposed method, we apply the convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-14 Rajvir Kaur , Kenji Bekki , Ghulam Mubashar Hassan , Amitava Datta

We model the galaxy formation in a series of high-resolution N-body simulations using the semi-analytical approach. Unlike many earlier investigations based on semi-analytical models, we make use of the subhalos resolved in the $N$-body…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-19 X. Kang , Y. P. Jing , H. J. Mo , G. Boerner

In this paper, we explain the universal approximation capabilities of deep residual neural networks through geometric nonlinear control. Inspired by recent work establishing links between residual networks and control systems, we provide a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Paulo Tabuada , Bahman Gharesifard

The average matter density within the turnaround scale, which demarcates where galaxies shift from clustering around a structure to joining the expansion of the Universe, is an important cosmological probe. However, a measurement of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-02 Giorgos Korkidis , Vasiliki Pavlidou

Disentangling the stellar population in the central galaxy from the intrahalo light can help us shed light on the formation history of the host halo, as the properties of the stellar components are expected to retain traces of its formation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-02 I. Marini , A. Saro , S. Borgani , M. Boi

This paper addresses the task of set prediction using deep feed-forward neural networks. A set is a collection of elements which is invariant under permutation and the size of a set is not fixed in advance. Many real-world problems, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Hamid Rezatofighi , Tianyu Zhu , Roman Kaskman , Farbod T. Motlagh , Qinfeng Shi , Anton Milan , Daniel Cremers , Laura Leal-Taixé , Ian Reid

Galaxy groups are essential for studying the distribution of matter on a large scale in redshift surveys and for deciphering the link between galaxy traits and their associated halos. In this work, we propose a widely applicable method for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-03 Juntao Ma , Jie Wang , Tianxiang Mao , Hongxiang Chen , Yuxi Meng , Xiaohu Yang , Qingyang Li

Motivated by previous findings that the magnitude gap between certain satellite galaxy and the central galaxy can be used to improve the estimation of halo mass, we carry out a systematic study of the information content of different member…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 Yanrui Zhou , Jiaxin Han

Universal approximation theorem suggests that a shallow neural network can approximate any function. The input to neurons at each layer is a weighted sum of previous layer neurons and then an activation is applied. These activation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Bhaavan Goel

Quantifying the connection between galaxies and their host dark matter halos has been key for testing cosmological models on various scales. Below $M_\star \sim 10^9\,M_\odot$, such studies have primarily relied on the satellite galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-15 Shany Danieli , Jenny E. Greene , Scott Carlsten , Fangzhou Jiang , Rachael Beaton , Andy D. Goulding