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Knowledge Graph Embedding (KGE) is a popular method for KG reasoning and training KGEs with higher dimension are usually preferred since they have better reasoning capability. However, high-dimensional KGEs pose huge challenges to storage…

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Weak gravitational lensing of the 21 cm radiation is expected to be an important cosmological probe for post-reionization physics. We investigate the reconstruction of the matter density perturbations using a quadratic minimum variance…

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[Abridged] We present the rest-frame Js-band and Ks-band luminosity function of a sample of about 300 galaxies selected in the HDF-S at Ks<23 (Vega). We use calibrated photometric redshift together with spectroscopic redshift for 25% of the…

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Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Louis Pujol

Observations of high-redshift galaxies have provided us with a rich tool to study the physics at play during the epoch of reionisation. The luminosity function (LF) of these objects is an indirect tracer of the complex processes that govern…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-04 Nashwan Sabti , Julian B. Muñoz , Diego Blas

In this paper we consider the problem of estimating $f$, the conditional density of $Y$ given $X$, by using an independent sample distributed as $(X,Y)$ in the multivariate setting. We consider the estimation of $f(x,.)$ where $x$ is a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-12-30 Karine Bertin , Claire Lacour , Vincent Rivoirard

Many statistical models in cosmology can be simulated forwards but have intractable likelihood functions. Likelihood-free inference methods allow us to perform Bayesian inference from these models using only forward simulations, free from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-11 Justin Alsing , Benjamin Wandelt , Stephen Feeney

The astronomy community has at its disposal a large back catalog of public spectroscopic galaxy redshift surveys that can be used for the measurement of luminosity functions. Utilizing the back catalog with new photometric surveys to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-06 S. E. Lake , E. L. Wright , C. -W. Tsai , A. Lam

We measure the evolution of the galaxy Luminosity Function as a function of large-scale environment up to z=1.5 from the VIMOS-VLT Deep Survey (VVDS) first epoch data. The 3D galaxy density field is reconstructed using a sample of 6582…

Tools for computing detailed optically thick spectral line profiles out of local thermodynamic equilibrium have always been focused on speed, due to the large computational effort involved. With the Lightweaver framework, we have produced a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-18 Christopher M J Osborne , Ivan Milić

We present a computational approach which is tailored for reducing the complexity of the description of extended systems at the density functional theory level. We define a recipe for generating a set of localized basis functions which are…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-04-16 Laura E. Ratcliff , Luigi Genovese

In this abstract paper, we introduce a new kernel learning method by a nonparametric density estimator. The estimator consists of a group of k-centroids clusterings. Each clustering randomly selects data points with randomly selected…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Xiao-Lei Zhang

Kohn-Sham density functional theory calculations using conventional diagonalization based methods become increasingly expensive as temperature increases due to the need to compute increasing numbers of partially occupied states. We present…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-03-23 Qimen Xu , Xin Jing , Boqin Zhang , John E. Pask , Phanish Suryanarayana

To generate data from trained diffusion models, most inference algorithms, such as DDPM, DDIM, and other variants, rely on discretizing the reverse SDEs or their equivalent ODEs. In this paper, we view such approaches as decomposing the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-05-28 Xunpeng Huang , Difan Zou , Hanze Dong , Yi Zhang , Yi-An Ma , Tong Zhang

Although Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved promising results in image classification, they still are vulnerable to affine transformations including rotation, translation, flip and shuffle. The drawback motivates us to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Zijie Tan , Guanfang Dong , Chenqiu Zhao , Anup Basu

We study cosmic variance in deep high redshift surveys and its influence on the determination of the luminosity function for high redshift galaxies. For several survey geometries relevant for HST and JWST instruments, we characterize the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-28 M. Trenti , M. Stiavelli

We propose ULFS-KDPE, a kernel debiased plug-in estimator based on the universal least favorable submodel, for estimating pathwise differentiable parameters in nonparametric models. The method constructs a data-adaptive debiasing flow in a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Haiyi Chen , Yang Liu , Ivana Malenica

Local Polynomial Regression (LPR) is a widely used nonparametric method for modeling complex relationships due to its flexibility and simplicity. It estimates a regression function by fitting low-degree polynomials to localized subsets of…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-22 Yaniv Shulman

The evaluation of the physical parameters or effects such as the luminosity function (LF) or the photometric maximum (PM) for galaxies is routinely modeled by their spectroscopic redshift. Here, we model LF and PM for galaxies by the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-06 Lorenzo Zaninetti
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