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In order to find a fast and reliable method for selecting metal poor galaxies (MPGs), especially in large surveys and huge database, an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) method is applied to a sample of star-forming galaxies from the Sloan…

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The future 21 cm intensity mapping observations constitute a promising way to trace the matter distribution of the Universe and probe cosmology. Here we assess its capability for cosmological constraints using as a case study the BINGO…

We develop the framework of Linear Simulation-based Inference (LSBI), an application of simulation-based inference where the likelihood is approximated by a Gaussian linear function of its parameters. We obtain analytical expressions for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-08 Nicolas Mediato-Diaz , Will Handley

We present a framework that combines physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) with Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) inference to constrain dynamical dark energy models using the Pantheon+ Type Ia supernova compilation. First, we train a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-19 Anshul Verma , Shashwat Sourav , Pavan K. Aluri , David F. Mota

Markov-chain Monte Carlo sampling has become a standard technique for exploring the posterior distribution of cosmological parameters constrained by observations of CMB anisotropies. Given an infinite amount of time, any MCMC sampler will…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Anze Slosar , Michael Hobson

This paper investigates two prominent probabilistic neural modeling paradigms: Bayesian Neural Networks (BNNs) and Mixture Density Networks (MDNs) for uncertainty-aware nonlinear regression. While BNNs incorporate epistemic uncertainty by…

Computation · Statistics 2025-10-30 Riddhi Pratim Ghosh , Ian Barnett

In this paper, we present the first study that compares different models of Bayesian Neural Networks (BNNs) to predict the posterior distribution of the cosmological parameters directly from the Cosmic Microwave Background temperature and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-13 Hector J. Hortua , Riccardo Volpi , Dimitri Marinelli , Luigi Malagò

We present a novel Bayesian inference tool that uses a neural network to parameterise efficient Markov Chain Monte-Carlo (MCMC) proposals. The target distribution is first transformed into a diagonal, unit variance Gaussian by a series of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-03 Adam Moss

For millimeter wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, hybrid processing architecture is usually used to reduce the complexity and cost, which poses a very challenging issue in channel estimation. In this paper,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Peihao Dong , Hua Zhang , Geoffrey Ye Li , Ivan Simoes Gaspar , Navid NaderiAlizadeh

This paper introduces a new approach to reconstruct cosmological functions using artificial neural networks based on observational measurements with minimal theoretical and statistical assumptions. By using neural networks, we can generate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-24 Isidro Gómez-Vargas , Ricardo Medel Esquivel , Ricardo García-Salcedo , J. Alberto Vázquez

A novel method images to estimate cosmological parameters based on images is presented. In this paper, we demonstrate the use of a convolutional neural network (CNN) for constraining the mass of dark matter particle. For this purpose, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-08 Koya Murakami , Atsushi J. Nishizawa

The inference of physical parameters from measured distributions constitutes a core task in physics data analyses. Among recent deep learning methods, so-called conditional invertible neural networks provide an elegant approach owing to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 Teresa Bister , Martin Erdmann , Ullrich Köthe , Josina Schulte

We propose a novel deep learning tool in order to study the evolution of dark energy models. The aim is to combine two architectures: the Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) and the Bayesian Neural Networks (BNN), we named this full network as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-18 Celia Escamilla-Rivera , Maryi Alejandra Carvajal Quintero , S. Capozziello

Both parametric and non-parametric approaches have demonstrated encouraging performances in the human parsing task, namely segmenting a human image into several semantic regions (e.g., hat, bag, left arm, face). In this work, we aim to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-04-07 Si Liu , Xiaodan Liang , Luoqi Liu , Xiaohui Shen , Jianchao Yang , Changsheng Xu , Liang Lin , Xiaochun Cao , Shuicheng Yan

The measurements of the temperature and polarisation anisotropies of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) by the ESA Planck mission have strongly supported the current concordance model of cosmology. However, the latest cosmological data…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-10 I. Ocampo , G. Cañas-Herrera , S. Nesseris

In this work, we propose a new nonparametric approach for reconstructing a function from observational data using an Artificial Neural Network (ANN), which has no assumptions about the data and is a completely data-driven approach. We test…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-26 Guo-Jian Wang , Xiao-Jiao Ma , Si-Yao Li , Jun-Qing Xia

In recent years, the integration of Machine Learning (ML) models with Operation Research (OR) tools has gained popularity across diverse applications, including cancer treatment, algorithmic configuration, and chemical process optimization.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Matteo Cacciola , Antonio Frangioni , Andrea Lodi

Analyzing high-dimensional data with manifold learning algorithms often requires searching for the nearest neighbors of all observations. This presents a computational bottleneck in statistical manifold learning when observations of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Fan Cheng , Anastasios Panagiotelis , Rob J Hyndman

We advocate for a new paradigm of cosmological likelihood-based inference, leveraging recent developments in machine learning and its underlying technology, to accelerate Bayesian inference in high-dimensional settings. Specifically, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-06 Davide Piras , Alicja Polanska , Alessio Spurio Mancini , Matthew A. Price , Jason D. McEwen

We introduce the DNNLikelihood, a novel framework to easily encode, through Deep Neural Networks (DNN), the full experimental information contained in complicated likelihood functions (LFs). We show how to efficiently parametrise the LF,…

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