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Astronomy has a long history of acquiring, systematizing, and interpreting large quantities of data. Starting from the earliest sky atlases through the first major photographic sky surveys of the 20th century, this tradition is continuing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert J. Brunner , S. George Djorgovski , Thomas A. Prince , Alex S. Szalay

Machine learning has rose to become an important research tool in the past decade, its application has been expanded to almost if not all disciplines known to mankind. Particularly, the use of machine learning in astrophysics research had a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-18 John Y. H. Soo , Ishaq Y. K. Alshuaili , Imdad Mahmud Pathi

Large cosmological datasets have been probing the properties of our universe and constraining the parameters of dark matter and dark energy with increasing precision. Deep learning techniques have shown potential to be smarter, and to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-30 Zoltán Haiman

Nowadays there is no field research which is not flooded with data. Among the sciences, Astrophysics has always been driven by the analysis of massive amounts of data. The development of new and more sophisticated observation facilities,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-14 Mauro Garofalo , Alessio Botta , Giorgio Ventre

The rapid advancement of observational capabilities in astronomy has led to an exponential growth in the volume of light curve (LC) data, creating both opportunities and challenges for time-domain astronomy. Traditional analytical methods…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-16 Almat Akhmetali , Alisher Zhunuskanov , Aknur Sakan , Marat Zaidyn , Timur Namazbayev , Dana Turlykozhayeva , Nurzhan Ussipov

Astronomy has entered the big data era and Machine Learning based methods have found widespread use in a large variety of astronomical applications. This is demonstrated by the recent huge increase in the number of publications making use…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-17 Massimo Brescia , Stefano Cavuoti , Valeria Amaro , Giuseppe Riccio , Giuseppe Angora , Civita Vellucci , Giuseppe Longo

In recent decades, artificial intelligence (AI) including machine learning (ML) have become vital for space missions enabling rapid data processing, advanced pattern recognition, and enhanced insight extraction. These tools are especially…

We describe the application of data mining algorithms to research problems in astronomy. We posit that data mining has always been fundamental to astronomical research, since data mining is the basis of evidence-based discovery, including…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-04 Kirk Borne

Machine learning (automated processes that learn by example in order to classify, predict, discover or generate new data) and artificial intelligence (methods by which a computer makes decisions or discoveries that would usually require…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-09 Christopher J. Fluke , Colin Jacobs

Machine learning techniques are utilised in several areas of astrophysical research today. This dissertation addresses the application of ML techniques to two classes of problems in astrophysics, namely, the analysis of individual…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-06 N. Daniel Kumar

This paper reviews the most important information fusion data-driven algorithms based on Machine Learning (ML) techniques for problems in Earth observation. Nowadays we observe and model the Earth with a wealth of observations, from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-11 S. Salcedo-Sanz , P. Ghamisi , M. Piles , M. Werner , L. Cuadra , A. Moreno-Martínez , E. Izquierdo-Verdiguier , J. Muñoz-Marí , Amirhosein Mosavi , G. Camps-Valls

This paper provides an overview of how recent advances in machine learning and the availability of data from earth observing satellites can dramatically improve our ability to automatically map croplands over long period and over large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Xiaowei Jia , Ankush Khandelwal , Vipin Kumar

All sciences, including astronomy, are now entering the era of information abundance. The exponentially increasing volume and complexity of modern data sets promises to transform the scientific practice, but also poses a number of common…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-17 S. G. Djorgovski

Machine learning, and eventually true artificial intelligence techniques, are extremely important advancements in astrophysics and astronomy. We explore the application of deep learning using neural networks in order to automate the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-29 James Bird , Kellan Colburn , Linda Petzold , Philip Lubin

The application of machine learning (ML) methods to the analysis of astrophysical datasets is on the rise, particularly as the computing power and complex algorithms become more powerful and accessible. As the field of ML enjoys a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-20 K. A. Venn , S. Fabbro , A Liu , Y. Hezaveh , L. Perreault-Levasseur , G. Eadie , S. Ellison , J. Woo , JJ. Kavelaars , K. M. Yi , R. Hlozek , J. Bovy , H. Teimoorinia , S. Ravanbakhsh , L. Spencer

Machine learning is a field that has been growing in importance since the early 2010s due to the increasing accuracy of classification models and hardware advances that have enabled faster training on large datasets. In the field of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-15 Alexis Mathis , Daniel Yu , Nolan Faught , Tyrian Hobbs.

Over the past century, major advances in astronomy and astrophysics have been largely driven by improvements in instrumentation and data collection. With the amassing of high quality data from new telescopes, and especially with the advent…

The rapid growth of large-scale radio surveys, generating over 100 petabytes of data annually, has created a pressing need for automated data analysis methods. Recent research has explored the application of machine learning techniques to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-14 Nikhel Gupta

It is argued that the astronomy of the twenty-first century will be dominated by computer-based manipulation of huge homogeneous surveys of various types of astronomical objects. Furthermore combination of all observations with large…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Sidney van den Bergh

In this work, we identify elements of effective machine learning datasets in astronomy and present suggestions for their design and creation. Machine learning has become an increasingly important tool for analyzing and understanding the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-30 Bernie Boscoe , Tuan Do , Evan Jones , Yunqi Li , Kevin Alfaro , Christy Ma