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We describe and analyze algorithms for shape-constrained symbolic regression, which allows the inclusion of prior knowledge about the shape of the regression function. This is relevant in many areas of engineering -- in particular whenever…

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Weak gravitational lensing on a cosmological scales can provide strong constraints both on the nature of dark matter and the dark energy equation of state. Most current weak lensing studies are restricted to (two-dimensional) projections,…

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This paper presents a constraint-guided deep learning framework for developing physically consistent health indicators in bearing prognostics and health management. Conventional data-driven methods often lack physical plausibility, while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Yonas Tefera , Quinten Van Baelen , Maarten Meire , Stijn Luca , Peter Karsmakers

This paper proposes a physics-guided recurrent neural network model (PGRNN) that combines RNNs and physics-based models to leverage their complementary strengths and improve the modeling of physical processes. Specifically, we show that a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-02-01 Xiaowei Jia , Jared Willard , Anuj Karpatne , Jordan Read , Jacob Zwart , Michael Steinbach , Vipin Kumar

Here we present a number of improvements to weak lensing 3D power spectrum analysis, 3D cosmic shear, that uses the shape and redshift information of every galaxy to constrain cosmological parameters. We show how photometric redshift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 T. D. Kitching , A. F. Heavens , L. Miller

Massive cosmic neutrinos change the structure formation history by suppressing perturbations on small scales. Weak lensing data from galaxy surveys probe the structure evolution and thereby can be used to constrain the total mass of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-28 Zack Li , Jia Liu , José Manuel Zorrilla Matilla , William R. Coulton

Substitution of well-grounded theoretical models by data-driven predictions is not as simple in engineering and sciences as it is in social and economic fields. Scientific problems suffer most times from paucity of data, while they may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Jacobo Ayensa-Jiménez , Mohamed H. Doweidar , Jose Antonio Sanz-Herrera , Manuel Doblaré

Representational similarity metrics typically force all units to be matched, making them susceptible to noise and outliers common in neural representations. We extend the soft-matching distance to a partial optimal transport setting that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Chaitanya Kapoor , Alex H. Williams , Meenakshi Khosla

Imposing known physical constraints, such as conservation laws, during neural network training introduces an inductive bias that can improve accuracy, reliability, convergence, and data efficiency for modeling physical dynamics. While such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Nithin Chalapathi , Yiheng Du , Aditi Krishnapriyan

We present a method to implement the idea of Jain & Taylor to constrain cosmological parameters with weak gravitational lensing. Photometric redshift information on foreground galaxies is used to produce templates of the mass structure at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. M. Bernstein , B. Jain

Spectroscopic redshift errors, including redshift uncertainty and catastrophic failures, can bias cosmological measurements from galaxy redshift surveys at sub-percent level. In this work, we investigate their impact on the full-shape…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-17 Shengyu He , Jiaxi Yu , Antoine Rocher , Daniel Forero-Sánchez , Jean-Paul Kneib , Cheng Zhao , Etienne Burtin , Jiamin Hou

In this paper, we study the problem of image recognition with non-differentiable constraints. A lot of real-life recognition applications require a rich output structure with deterministic constraints that are discrete or modeled by a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Xuan Li , Yuchen Lu , Peng Xu , Jizong Peng , Christian Desrosiers , Xue Liu

Using detailed mock galaxy redshift surveys we investigate to what extent the kinematics of large samples of satellites galaxies extracted from flux-limited surveys can be used to constrain halo masses. Previous host-satellite selection…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Frank C. van den Bosch , Peder Norberg , H. J. Mo , Xiaohu Yang

Neural networks are a central technique in machine learning. Recent years have seen a wave of interest in applying neural networks to physical systems for which the governing dynamics are known and expressed through differential equations.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-31 M. Mattheakis , P. Protopapas , D. Sondak , M. Di Giovanni , E. Kaxiras

Photometric wide-field surveys are imaging the sky in unprecedented detail. These surveys face a significant challenge in efficiently estimating galactic photometric redshifts while accurately quantifying associated uncertainties. In this…

Studies of cosmology, galaxy evolution, and astronomical transients with current and next-generation wide-field imaging surveys like the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) are all critically dependent on estimates of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-24 Biprateep Dey , Brett H. Andrews , Jeffrey A. Newman , Yao-Yuan Mao , Markus Michael Rau , Rongpu Zhou

Weak lensing peak abundance analyses have been applied in different surveys and demonstrated to be a powerful statistics in extracting cosmological information complementary to cosmic shear two-point correlation studies. Future large…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 Shuo Yuan , Chuzhong Pan , Xiangkun Liu , Qiao Wang , Zuhui Fan

Conditional density estimation generalizes regression by modeling a full density f(yjx) rather than only the expected value E(yjx). This is important for many tasks, including handling multi-modality and generating prediction intervals.…

Methodology · Statistics 2012-06-26 Michael P. Holmes , Alexander G. Gray , Charles Lee Isbell

Identifying the dynamics of physical systems requires a machine learning model that can assimilate observational data, but also incorporate the laws of physics. Neural Networks based on physical principles such as the Hamiltonian or…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-22 Jonas Eichelsdörfer , Sebastian Kaltenbach , Phaedon-Stelios Koutsourelakis

We present a method of calibrating the properties of photometric redshift bins as part of a larger Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) analysis for the inference of cosmological parameters. The redshift bins are characterised by their mean and…

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