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The tens of millions of spectra being captured by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) provide tremendous discovery potential. In this work we show how Machine Learning, in particular Variational Autoencoders (VAE), can detect…

Deep Learning has been widely applied in the area of image processing and natural language processing. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end communication structure based on autoencoder where the transceiver can be optimized jointly. A…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Tianjie Mu , Xiaohui Chen , Li Chen , Huarui Yin , Weidong Wang

We present a novel deep learning method to separately extract the two-dimensional flux information of the foreground galaxy (deflector) and background system (source) of Galaxy-Galaxy Strong Lensing events using U-Net (GGSL-Unet for short).…

Encoder transformer models compress information from all tokens in a sequence into a single [CLS] token to represent global context. This approach risks diluting fine-grained or hierarchical features, leading to information loss in…

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Chemical abundance determinations from stellar spectra are challenged by observational noise, limitations in stellar models, and departures from simplifying assumptions. While traditional and supervised machine learning methods have made…

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We present a novel and practical deep fully convolutional neural network architecture for semantic pixel-wise segmentation termed SegNet. This core trainable segmentation engine consists of an encoder network, a corresponding decoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-12 Vijay Badrinarayanan , Alex Kendall , Roberto Cipolla

Stellar spectra encode detailed information about the stars. However, most machine learning approaches in stellar spectroscopy focus on supervised learning. We introduce Mendis, an unsupervised learning method, which adopts normalizing…

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The Transformer architecture has revolutionized the field of deep learning over the past several years in diverse areas, including natural language processing, code generation, image recognition, time series forecasting, etc. We propose to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-30 Hyosun Park , Yongsik Jo , Seokun Kang , Taehwan Kim , M. James Jee

We describe an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) approach to classification of galaxy images and spectra. ANNs can replicate the classification of galaxy images by a human expert to the same degree of agreement as that between two human…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ofer Lahav

Reliably characterised pulses are the starting point of any application of ultrafast techniques. Unfortunately, experimental constraints do not always allow optimising the characterisation conditions. This dictates the need for refined…

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Representation learning often plays a critical role in reinforcement learning by managing the curse of dimensionality. A representative class of algorithms exploits a spectral decomposition of the stochastic transition dynamics to construct…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Tongzheng Ren , Tianjun Zhang , Lisa Lee , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Dale Schuurmans , Bo Dai

Determining the radial positions of galaxies up to a high accuracy depends on the correct identification of salient features in their spectra. Classical techniques for spectroscopic redshift estimation make use of template matching with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-15 Joana Frontera-Pons , Florent Sureau , Bruno Moraes , Jérôme Bobin , Filipe Abdalla

The highly popular Transformer architecture, based on self-attention, is the foundation of large pretrained models such as BERT, that have become an enduring paradigm in NLP. While powerful, the computational resources and time required to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Ran Tian , Joshua Maynez , Ankur P. Parikh

This work presents a generative modeling approach based on successive subspace learning (SSL). Unlike most generative models in the literature, our method does not utilize neural networks to analyze the underlying source distribution and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Zohreh Azizi , C. -C. Jay Kuo

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have revolutionized image classification by extracting spatial features and enabling state-of-the-art accuracy in vision-based tasks. The squeeze and excitation network proposed module gathers…

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In this paper, we propose an encoder-decoder neural architecture (called Channelformer) to achieve improved channel estimation for orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) waveforms in downlink scenarios. The self-attention…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-10 Dianxin Luan , John Thompson

We introduce the Spectroscopy Pre-trained Transformer (SpecPT), a transformer-based model designed to analyze spectroscopic data, with applications in spectrum reconstruction and redshift measurement. Using the Early Data Release (EDR) of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-12 Rohan Pattnaik , Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe , Clive Binu

The landscape of computational building blocks of efficient image restoration architectures is dominated by a combination of convolutional processing and various attention mechanisms. However, convolutional filters, while efficient, are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-23 Mohammad Shahab Sepehri , Zalan Fabian , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi

Graph machine learning has been widely explored in various domains, such as community detection, transaction analysis, and recommendation systems. In these applications, anomaly detection plays an important role. Recently, studies have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Wei Herng Choong , Jixing Liu , Ching-Yu Kao , Philip Sperl

Estimating depth from a single 2D image is a challenging task due to the lack of stereo or multi-view data, which are typically required for depth perception. In state-of-the-art architectures, the main challenge is to efficiently capture…

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