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Model merging has recently emerged as a lightweight alternative to ensembling, combining multiple fine-tuned models into a single set of parameters with no additional training overhead. Yet, existing merging methods fall short of matching…

Understanding the role of mergers in galaxy formation is one of the most outstanding problems in extragalactic astronomy. While we now have an idea for how the merger fraction evolves at redshifts z < 3, converting this merger fraction into…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Christopher J. Conselice

Theoretical models are vital for exploring the galaxy merger process, which plays a crucial role in the evolution of galaxies. Recent advances in modelling have placed tight constraints on the buildup of stellar material in galaxies across…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-10 Joseph A. O'Leary , Benjamin P. Moster , Eva Krämer

Classification of galaxy morphology is a challenging but meaningful task for the enormous amount of data produced by the next-generation telescope. By introducing the adaptive polar coordinate transformation, we develop a rotationally…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-11 G. W. Fang , S. Ba , Y. Z. Gu , Z. S. Lin , Y. J. Hou , C. X. Qin , C. C. Zhou , J. Xu , Y. Dai , J. Song , X. Kong

Globular clusters (GCs) have been at the heart of many longstanding questions in many sub-fields of astronomy and, as such, systematic identification of GCs in external galaxies has immense impacts. In this study, we take advantage of M87's…

The next generation of data-intensive surveys are bound to produce a vast amount of data, which can be dealt with using machine-learning methods to explore possible correlations within the multi-dimensional parameter space. We explore the…

The Coherent WaveBurst (cWB) search algorithm identifies generic gravitational wave (GW) signals in the LIGO-Virgo strain data. We propose a machine learning (ML) method to optimize the pipeline sensitivity to the special class of GW…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-21 Tanmaya Mishra , Brendan O'Brien , V. Gayathri , Marek Szczepanczyk , Shubhagata Bhaumik , Imre Bartos , Sergey Klimenko

The majority of massive star-forming galaxies at $z\sim2$ have velocity gradients suggestive of rotation, in addition to large amounts of disordered motions. In this paper, we demonstrate that it is challenging to distinguish the regular…

Galaxy morphology classification plays a crucial role in understanding the structure and evolution of the universe. With galaxy observation data growing exponentially, machine learning has become a core technology for this classification…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-29 Zhijian Luo , Jianzhen Chen , Zhu Chen , Shaohua Zhang , Liping Fu , Hubing Xiao , Chenggang Shu

This work brings together some of the most common machine learning (ML) algorithms, and the objective is to make a comparison at the level of obtained results from a set of unbalanced data. This dataset is composed of almost 17 thousand…

Only increasing accuracy without considering uncertainty may negatively impact Deep Neural Network (DNN) decision-making and decrease its reliability. This paper proposes five combined preprocessing and post-processing methods for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Hamed Farkhari , Joseanne Viana , Pedro Sebastiao , Luis Miguel Campos , Luis Bernardo , Rui Dinis , Sarang Kahvazadeh

Merging has become a widespread way to cheaply combine individual models into a single model that inherits their capabilities and attains better performance. This popularity has spurred rapid development of many new merging methods, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Derek Tam , Yash Kant , Brian Lester , Igor Gilitschenski , Colin Raffel

Machine learning models can greatly improve the search for strong gravitational lenses in imaging surveys by reducing the amount of human inspection required. In this work, we test the performance of supervised, semi-supervised, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-17 Keerthi Vasan G. C. , Stephen Sheng , Tucker Jones , Chi Po Choi , James Sharpnack

Planet formation simulations are capable of directly integrating the evolution of hundreds to thousands of planetary embryos and planetesimals, as they accrete pairwise to become planets. In principle such investigations allow us to better…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-01 Saverio Cambioni , Erik Asphaug , Alexandre Emsenhuber , Travis S. J. Gabriel , Roberto Furfaro , Stephen R. Schwartz

Study of the production of pairs of top quarks in association with a Higgs boson is one of the primary goals of the Large Hadron Collider over the next decade, as measurements of this process may help us to understand whether the uniquely…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-04-26 Roberto Santos , Marcus Nguyen , Jordan Webster , Soo Ryu , Jahred Adelman , Sergei Chekanov , Jie Zhou

We propose a novel multi-dimensional integration algorithm using a machine learning (ML) technique. After training a ML regression model to mimic a target integrand, the regression model is used to evaluate an approximation of the integral.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-10-14 Boram Yoon

We propose a random forest (RF) machine learning approach to determine the accreted stellar mass fractions ($f_\mathrm{acc}$) of central galaxies, based on various dark matter halo and galaxy features. The RF is trained and tested using…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-14 Rui Shi , Wenting Wang , Zhaozhou Li , Jiaxin Han , Jingjing Shi , Vicente Rodriguez-Gomez , Yingjie Peng , Qingyang Li

In this study, galaxy samples have been generated using mock observation techniques based on the results of TNG100-1 simulations to investigate three forms of intrinsic alignment: satellite-central alignment between the orientation of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-10 Yanyao Lan , Lin Tang , Weipeng Lin , Junyu Gong

Low-frequency gravitational wave experiments such as the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna and pulsar timing arrays are expected to detect individual massive black hole (MBH) binaries and mergers. However, secure methods of identifying the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-09 Jaeden Bardati , John J. Ruan , Daryl Haggard , Michael Tremmel

Internal gas inflows driven by galaxy mergers are considered to enhance star formation rates (SFR), fuel supermassive black hole growth and stimulate active galactic nuclei (AGN). However, quantifying these phenomena remains a challenge,…