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The Framework for Unified and Robust data Analysis with JAX (Furax) is an open-source Python framework for modeling data acquisition systems and solving inverse problems in astrophysics and cosmology. Built on JAX, Furax provides composable…

We introduce new CosmoEJS modules to improve the investigation of the consequences of constraints on the parameter values of cosmological models. We use CosmoMC to fit dark energy models and modified gravity models to recent data from the…

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We present JAX-PF, an open-source, GPU-accelerated, and differentiable Phase Field (PF) software package, supporting both explicit and implicit time stepping schemes. Leveraging the modern computing architecture JAX, JAX-PF achieves high…

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In the near future, the China Space Station Telescope (CSST) will obtain unprecedented imaging and spectroscopic data. The statistical errors in the cosmological parameter constraints will be reduced significantly. The corresponding…

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Cosmic shear is one of the most powerful probes of Dark Energy, targeted by several current and future galaxy surveys. Lensing shear, however, is only sampled at the positions of galaxies with measured shapes in the catalog, making its…

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We present the BACCO project, a simulation framework specially designed to provide highly-accurate predictions for the distribution of mass, galaxies, and gas as a function of cosmological parameters. In this paper, we describe our main…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-04 Raul E. Angulo , Matteo Zennaro , Sergio Contreras , Giovanni Aricò , Marcos Pellejero-Ibañez , Jens Stücker

Covariance matrices are important tools for obtaining reliable parameter constraints. Advancements in cosmological surveys lead to larger data vectors and, consequently, increasingly complex covariance matrices, whose number of elements…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-31 Tassia Ferreira , Valerio Marra

We present and apply Gaussbock, a new embarrassingly parallel iterative algorithm for cosmological parameter estimation designed for an era of cheap parallel computing resources. Gaussbock uses Bayesian nonparametrics and truncated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-19 Ben Moews , Joe Zuntz

Cosmological parameter estimation is entering a new era. Large collaborations need to coordinate high-stakes analyses using multiple methods; furthermore such analyses have grown in complexity due to sophisticated models of cosmology and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 Joe Zuntz , Marc Paterno , Elise Jennings , Douglas Rudd , Alessandro Manzotti , Scott Dodelson , Sarah Bridle , Saba Sehrish , James Kowalkowski

A standard practice in extragalactic population studies is the fitting of parametric models to galaxy images. From such fits, key structural parameters of galaxies such as total flux and effective radius (size) can be extracted. One of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-12 Imad Pasha , Tim B. Miller

Cosmological probes pose an inverse problem where the measurement result is obtained through observations, and the objective is to infer values of model parameters which characterize the underlying physical system -- our Universe. Modern…

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Modern cosmological surveys are delivering datasets characterized by unprecedented quality and statistical completeness; this trend is expected to continue into the future as new ground- and space-based surveys come online. In order to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-21 Kelly R. Moran , Katrin Heitmann , Earl Lawrence , Salman Habib , Derek Bingham , Amol Upadhye , Juliana Kwan , David Higdon , Richard Payne

Simulation based inference has seen increasing interest in the past few years as a promising approach to model the non linear scales of galaxy clustering. The common approach using Gaussian process is to train an emulator over the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-20 Tyann Dumerchat , Julian Bautista

Among numerical libraries capable of computing gradient descent optimization, JAX stands out by offering more features, accelerated by an intermediate representation known as Jaxpr language. However, editing the Jaxpr code is not directly…

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Genetic programming is an optimization algorithm inspired by evolution which automatically evolves the structure of interpretable computer programs. The fitness evaluation in genetic programming suffers from high computational requirements,…

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Computer simulations are invaluable tools for scientific discovery. However, accurate simulations are often slow to execute, which limits their applicability to extensive parameter exploration, large-scale data analysis, and uncertainty…

JAX-bandflux is a JAX implementation of critical supernova modelling functionality for cosmological analysis. The codebase implements key components of the established library SNCosmo in a differentiable framework, offering efficient…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-14 Samuel Alan Kossoff Leeney

Differentiable numerical simulations of physical systems have gained rising attention in the past few years with the development of automatic differentiation tools. This paper presents JAX-SSO, a differentiable finite element analysis…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Gaoyuan Wu

We present GIGA-Lens: a gradient-informed, GPU-accelerated Bayesian framework for modeling strong gravitational lensing systems, implemented in TensorFlow and JAX. The three components, optimization using multi-start gradient descent,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-16 A. Gu , X. Huang , W. Sheu , G. Aldering , A. S. Bolton , K. Boone , A. Dey , A. Filipp , E. Jullo , S. Perlmutter , D. Rubin , E. F. Schlafly , D. J. Schlegel , Y. Shu , S. H. Suyu