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We present a Neural Network based emulator for the galaxy redshift-space power spectrum that enables several orders of magnitude acceleration in the galaxy clustering parameter inference, while preserving 3$\sigma$ accuracy better than…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-03 Svyatoslav Trusov , Pauline Zarrouk , Shaun Cole

Neural network emulators are widely used in astrophysics and cosmology to approximate complex simulations inside Bayesian inference loops. Ad hoc rules of thumb are often used to justify the emulator accuracy required for reliable posterior…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-25 H. T. J. Bevins , T. Gessey-Jones , W. J. Handley

We implement a sample-efficient method for rapid and accurate emulation of semi-analytical galaxy formation models over a wide range of model outputs. We use ensembled deep learning algorithms to produce a fast emulator of an updated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-14 Edward J. Elliott , Carlton M. Baugh , Cedric G. Lacey

Forward-modeling observables from galaxy simulations enables direct comparisons between theory and observations. To generate synthetic spectral energy distributions (SEDs) that include dust absorption, re-emission, and scattering, Monte…

We present neural networks to generate redshift-space galaxy power spectrum multipoles for multiple tracer and redshift bins simultaneously given a set of input cosmology and galaxy bias parameters. This emulator utilizes a combination of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-23 Joseph Adamo , Grace Gibbins , Anne Moore , Tim Eifler

Emulator embedded neural networks, which are a type of physics informed neural network, leverage multi-fidelity data sources for efficient design exploration of aerospace engineering systems. Multiple realizations of the neural network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Atticus Beachy , Harok Bae , Jose Camberos , Ramana Grandhi

With the advent of billion-galaxy surveys with complex data, the need of the hour is to efficiently model galaxy spectral energy distributions (SEDs) with robust uncertainty quantification. The combination of Simulation-Based inference…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-18 Gourav Khullar , Brian Nord , Aleksandra Ciprijanovic , Jason Poh , Fei Xu

Traditional spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting codes used to derive galaxy physical properties are often uncertain at the factor of a few level owing to uncertainties in galaxy star formation histories and dust attenuation curves.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-04 Sankalp Gilda , Sidney Lower , Desika Narayanan

Machine learning can accelerate cosmological inferences that involve many sequential evaluations of computationally expensive data vectors. Previous works in this series have examined how machine learning architectures impact emulator…

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…

The halo occupation distribution (HOD) approach has proven to be an effective method for modeling galaxy clustering and bias. In this approach, galaxies of a given type are probabilistically assigned to individual halos in N-body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-15 Juliana Kwan , Katrin Heitmann , Salman Habib , Nikhil Padmanabhan , Hal Finkel , Nick Frontiere , Adrian Pope

This paper demonstrates that the stellar masses of galaxies in the Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey, originally derived via stellar population synthesis modelling, can be accurately predicted using only their absolute magnitudes and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-09 E. Elson

We present SPECULATOR - a fast, accurate, and flexible framework for emulating stellar population synthesis (SPS) models for predicting galaxy spectra and photometry. For emulating spectra, we use principal component analysis to construct a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-08 Justin Alsing , Hiranya Peiris , Joel Leja , ChangHoon Hahn , Rita Tojeiro , Daniel Mortlock , Boris Leistedt , Benjamin D. Johnson , Charlie Conroy

Fitting the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of galaxies is an almost universally used technique that has matured significantly in the last decade. Model predictions and fitting procedures have improved significantly over this time,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 C. J. Walcher , B. Groves , T. Budavari , D. Dale

We introduce a new technique based on artificial neural networks which allows us to make accurate predictions for the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of large samples of galaxies, at wavelengths ranging from the far-ultra-violet to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 C. Almeida , C. M. Baugh , C. G. Lacey , C. S. Frenk , G. L. Granato , L. Silva , A. Bressan

The Probabilistic Value-Added Bright Galaxy Survey (PROVABGS) catalog will provide the posterior distributions of physical properties of $>10$ million DESI Bright Galaxy Survey (BGS) galaxies. Each posterior distribution will be inferred…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-27 K. J. Kwon , ChangHoon Hahn , Justin Alsing

Neural network-based emulators for the inference of stellar parameters and elemental abundances represent an increasingly popular methodology in modern spectroscopic surveys. However, these approaches are often constrained by their…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-10 Tomasz Różański , Yuan-Sen Ting

Neural operators or emulators for PDEs trained on data from numerical solvers are conventionally assumed to be limited by their training data's fidelity. We challenge this assumption by identifying "emulator superiority," where neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Felix Koehler , Nils Thuerey

Although neural-network-based emulators enable efficient parameter estimation in 21-cm cosmology, the accuracy of such constraints is poorly understood. We employ nested sampling to fit mock data of the global 21-cm signal and high-$z$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-05 J. Dorigo Jones , D. Rapetti , J. Mirocha , J. J. Hibbard , J. O. Burns , N. Bassett

We present a framework for analysing panchromatic and spatially resolved galaxy observations, dubbed SE3D. SE3D simultaneously and self-consistently models a galaxy's spectral energy distribution and its spectral distributions of global…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-19 Steven Ramnichal , Junkai Zhang , Stijn Wuyts , Cheng Li
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