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In histopathological image analysis, feature extraction for classification is a challenging task due to the diversity of histology features suitable for each problem as well as presence of rich geometrical structure. In this paper, we…

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Deep Metric Learning (DML) plays a critical role in various machine learning tasks. However, most existing deep metric learning methods with binary similarity are sensitive to noisy labels, which are widely present in real-world data. Since…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Jiexi Yan , Lei Luo , Cheng Deng , Heng Huang

We report on the detection of gravitational lensing magnification by a population of galaxy groups, at a significance level of 4.9 sigma. Using X-ray selected groups in the COSMOS 1.64 deg^2 field, and high-redshift Lyman break galaxies as…

Weak gravitational lensing has the potential to constrain cosmological parameters to high precision. However, as shown by the Shear TEsting Programmes (STEP) and GRavitational lEnsing Accuracy Testing (GREAT) Challenges, measuring galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Tomasz Kacprzak , Joe Zuntz , Barnaby Rowe , Sarah Bridle , Alexandre Refregier , Adam Amara , Lisa Voigt , Michael Hirsch

Deep learning for Earth imagery plays an increasingly important role in geoscience applications such as agriculture, ecology, and natural disaster management. Still, progress is often hindered by the limited training labels. Given Earth…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Zelin Xu , Tingsong Xiao , Wenchong He , Yu Wang , Zhe Jiang

The rapid increase in data on galaxy images at low and high redshift calls for re-examination of the classification schemes and for new automatic objective methods. Here we present a classification method by Artificial Neural Networks. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ofer Lahav

We apply four statistical learning methods to a sample of $7941$ galaxies ($z<0.06$) from the Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey to test the feasibility of using automated algorithms to classify galaxies. Using $10$ features measured…

We use a contrastive self-supervised learning framework to estimate distances to galaxies from their photometric images. We incorporate data augmentations from computer vision as well as an application-specific augmentation accounting for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-13 Md Abul Hayat , Peter Harrington , George Stein , Zarija Lukić , Mustafa Mustafa

We propose a hierarchical graph neural network (GNN) model that learns how to cluster a set of images into an unknown number of identities using a training set of images annotated with labels belonging to a disjoint set of identities. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Yifan Xing , Tong He , Tianjun Xiao , Yongxin Wang , Yuanjun Xiong , Wei Xia , David Wipf , Zheng Zhang , Stefano Soatto

The two-step galaxy morphology classification framework {\tt USmorph} successfully combines unsupervised machine learning (UML) with supervised machine learning (SML) methods. To enhance the UML step, we employed a dual-encoder architecture…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-22 Xiaolei Yin , Guanwen Fang , Shiying Lu , Zesen Lin , Yao Dai , Chichun Zhou

We present an analysis of galaxy-galaxy weak gravitational lensing (GGL) in chameleon $f(R)$ gravity - a leading candidate of non-standard gravity models. For the analysis we have created mock galaxy catalogues based on dark matter haloes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-27 Baojiu Li , Masato Shirasaki

Context: The huge and still rapidly growing amount of galaxies in modern sky surveys raises the need of an automated and objective classification method. Unsupervised learning algorithms are of particular interest, since they discover…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Rene Andrae , Peter Melchior , Matthias Bartelmann

Cosmological galaxy formation simulations are still limited by their spatial/mass resolution and cannot model from first principles some of the processes, like star formation, that are key in driving galaxy evolution. As a consequence they…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-02 Andrea V. Macciò , Mohamad Ali-Dib , Pavle Vulanović , Hind Al Noori , Fabian Walter , Nico Krieger , Tobias Buck

Rare extragalactic objects can carry substantial information about the past, present, and future universe. Given the size of astronomical databases in the information era it can be assumed that very many outlier galaxies are included in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-13 Lior Shamir

Image classification requires the generation of features capable of detecting image patterns informative of group identity. The objective of this study was to classify images from the public CIFAR-10 image dataset by leveraging combinations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Felipe O. Giuste , Juan C. Vizcarra

We present a modern machine learning approach for cluster dynamical mass measurements that is a factor of two improvement over using a conventional scaling relation. Different methods are tested against a mock cluster catalog constructed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-15 Michelle Ntampaka , Hy Trac , Danica J. Sutherland , Nicholas Battaglia , Barnabas Poczos , Jeff Schneider

We apply machine learning, a powerful method for uncovering complex correlations in high-dimensional data, to the galaxy-halo connection of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. The mapping between galaxy and halo variables is stochastic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-16 Richard Stiskalek , Deaglan J. Bartlett , Harry Desmond , Dhayaa Anbajagane

With the onset of large-scale astronomical surveys capturing millions of images, there is an increasing need to develop fast and accurate deconvolution algorithms that generalize well to different images. A powerful and accessible…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-18 Utsav Akhaury , Jean-Luc Starck , Pascale Jablonka , Frédéric Courbin , Kevin Michalewicz

Astronomers have typically set out to solve supervised machine learning problems by creating their own representations from scratch. We show that deep learning models trained to answer every Galaxy Zoo DECaLS question learn meaningful…

In our previous works, we proposed a machine learning framework named \texttt{USmorph} for efficiently classifying galaxy morphology. In this study, we propose a self-supervised method called contrastive learning to upgrade the unsupervised…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-19 Shiwei Zhu , Guanwen Fang , Chichun Zhou , Jie Song , Zesen Lin , Yao Dai , Xu Kong