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In this work, we demonstrate the constraining power of the tomographic weak lensing convergence PDF for StageIV-like source galaxy redshift bins and shape noise. We focus on scales of $10$ to $20$ arcmin in the mildly nonlinear regime,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-16 Lina Castiblanco , Cora Uhlemann , Joachim Harnois-Déraps , Alexandre Barthelemy

Within the context of upcoming full-sky lensing surveys, the edge-preserving non- linear algorithm Aski is presented. Using the framework of Maximum A Posteriori inversion, it aims at recovering the full-sky convergence map from surveys…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 C. Pichon , E. Thiebaut , S. Prunet , K. Benabed , S. Colombi , T. Sousbie , R. Teyssier

Recent Lyman-$\alpha$ forest tomography measurements of the intergalactic medium (IGM) have revealed a wealth of cosmic structures at high redshift ($z\sim 2.5$). In this work, we present the Tomographic Absorption Reconstruction and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-18 Benjamin Horowitz , Khee-Gan Lee , Martin White , Alex Krolewski , Metin Ata

In \citep{Qin+}, we attempted to reconstruct the weak lensing convergence map $\hat{\kappa}$ from cosmic magnification by linearly weighting the DECaLS galaxy overdensities in different magnitude bins of $grz$ photometry bands. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-03 Jian Qin , Pengjie Zhang , Yu Yu , Haojie Xu , Ji Yao , Yuan Shi , Huanyuan Shan

We study the accuracy with which weak lensing measurements could be made from a future space-based survey, predicting the subsequent precisions of 3-dimensional dark matter maps, projected 2-dimensional dark matter maps, and mass-selected…

A crucial aspect of mass-mapping, via weak lensing, is quantification of the uncertainty introduced during the reconstruction process. Properly accounting for these errors has been largely ignored to date. We present a new method to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-16 Matthew A. Price , Jason D. McEwen , Xiaohao Cai , Thomas D. Kitching , Christopher G. R. Wallis

We present a Bayesian hierarchical modelling approach to infer the cosmic matter density field, and the lensing and the matter power spectra, from cosmic shear data. This method uses a physical model of cosmic structure formation to infer…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 Natalia Porqueres , Alan Heavens , Daniel Mortlock , Guilhem Lavaux

Kernel approximation using randomized feature maps has recently gained a lot of interest. In this work, we identify that previous approaches for polynomial kernel approximation create maps that are rank deficient, and therefore do not…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-12-18 Raffay Hamid , Ying Xiao , Alex Gittens , Dennis DeCoste

Semantic segmentation of structural defects in civil infrastructure remains challenging due to variable defect appearances, harsh imaging conditions, and significant class imbalance. Current deep learning methods, despite their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Md Meftahul Ferdaus , Mahdi Abdelguerfi , Elias Ioup , Steven Sloan , Kendall N. Niles , Ken Pathak

Precision cosmology benefits from extracting maximal information from cosmic structures, motivating the use of higher-order statistics (HOS) at small spatial scales. However, predicting how baryonic processes modify matter statistics at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-07 Alan Junzhe Zhou , Marco Gatti , Dhayaa Anbajagane , Scott Dodelson , Matthieu Schaller , Joop Schaye

We explore the ability of normalizing flow (NF) generative models to reproduce weak-lensing summary statistics when trained on a set of cosmological simulations. Our analysis focuses on how accurately NF models recover the mean, standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-29 Joaquin Armijo , Leander Thiele , Jia Liu

The last few years have seen the development of a promising theoretical framework for statistics of the cosmic large-scale structure -- the theory of large deviations (LDT) for modelling weak-lensing one-point statistics in the mildly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-15 Alexandre Barthelemy , Anik Halder , Zhengyangguang Gong , Cora Uhlemann

The acquisition of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is inherently slow. Inspired by recent advances in deep learning, we propose a framework for reconstructing MR images from undersampled data using a deep cascade of convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-03 Jo Schlemper , Jose Caballero , Joseph V. Hajnal , Anthony Price , Daniel Rueckert

Radio maps are important enablers for many applications in wireless networks, ranging from network planning and optimization to fingerprint based localization. Sampling the complete map is prohibitively expensive in practice, so methods for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-27 Daniel Schäufele , Renato L. G. Cavalcante , Slawomir Stanczak

Upcoming ground-based cosmic microwave background experiments will provide CMB maps with high sensitivity and resolution that can be used for high fidelity lensing reconstruction. However, the sky coverage will be incomplete and the noise…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-11 Mark Mirmelstein , Julien Carron , Antony Lewis

We present a new method for reconstructing two-dimensional mass maps of galaxy clusters from the image distortion of background galaxies. In contrast to most previous approaches, which directly convert locally averaged image ellipticities…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stella Seitz , Peter Schneider , Matthias Bartelmann

Weak gravitational lensing maps compactly encode the evolution of cosmic large-scale structure and are a key tool for cosmological analyses. Performing inference directly at the map level allows flexible choices of statistics and can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-25 Guangjian Li , Tomasz Kacprzak

Current and upcoming wide-field, ground-based, broad-band imaging surveys promise to address a wide range of outstanding problems in galaxy formation and cosmology. Several such uses of ground-based data, especially weak gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Rachel Mandelbaum , Christopher M. Hirata , Alexie Leauthaud , Richard J. Massey , Jason Rhodes

The kernel least mean squares (KLMS) algorithm is a computationally efficient nonlinear adaptive filtering method that "kernelizes" the celebrated (linear) least mean squares algorithm. We demonstrate that the least mean squares algorithm…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-10-22 Il Memming Park , Sohan Seth , Steven Van Vaerenbergh