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We present a deep machine learning (ML)-based technique for accurately determining $\sigma_8$ and $\Omega_m$ from mock 3D galaxy surveys. The mock surveys are built from the AbacusCosmos suite of $N$-body simulations, which comprises 40…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-12 Michelle Ntampaka , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Sihan Yuan , Lehman H. Garrison

Ongoing and planned weak lensing (WL) surveys are becoming deep enough to contain information on angular scales down to a few arcmin. To fully extract information from these small scales, we must capture non-Gaussian features in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 Tianhuan Lu , Zoltán Haiman , José Manuel Zorrilla Matilla

We present a new suite of over 1,500 cosmological N-body simulations with varied Warm Dark Matter (WDM) models ranging from 2.5 to 30 keV. We use these simulations to train Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to infer WDM particle masses…

Recently, convolutional neural network (CNN) techniques have gained popularity as a tool for hyperspectral image classification (HSIC). To improve the feature extraction efficiency of HSIC under the condition of limited samples, the current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Hongmin Gao , Zhonghao Chen , Chenming Li

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are powerful algorithms that have been proven capable of extracting non-Gaussian information from weak lensing (WL) data sets. Understanding which features in the data determine the output of these nested,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-14 José Manuel Zorrilla Matilla , Manasi Sharma , Daniel Hsu , Zoltán Haiman

Machine learning has the potential to improve the reconstruction of the dark matter profile of galaxies with respect to traditional methods, like rotation curves. We demonstrate on the simulation suite Illustris-TNG that a steerable…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-23 Martín de los Rios , Serafina Di Gioia , Fabio Iocco , Roberto Trotta

What happens when a black box (neural network) meets a black box (simulation of the Universe)? Recent work has shown that convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can infer cosmological parameters from the matter density field in the presence…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-10 Arnab Lahiry , Adrian E. Bayer , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro

In this work, we propose using the mixture density network (MDN) to estimate cosmological parameters. We test the MDN method by constraining parameters of the $\Lambda$CDM and $w$CDM models using Type Ia supernovae and the power spectra of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-05 Guo-Jian Wang , Cheng Cheng , Yin-Zhe Ma , Jun-Qing Xia

We present a full forward-modeled $w$CDM analysis of the KiDS-1000 weak lensing maps using graph-convolutional neural networks (GCNN). Utilizing the $\texttt{CosmoGrid}$, a novel massive simulation suite spanning six different cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-21 Janis Fluri , Tomasz Kacprzak , Aurelien Lucchi , Aurel Schneider , Alexandre Refregier , Thomas Hofmann

For many analyses in cosmology it is necessary to reconstruct the likely distribution of unobserved fields, such as dark matter or non-luminous baryons, from observed luminous tracers. The dominant approach in cosmology has been to use the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-16 Jordan Krywonos , Yurii Kvasiuk , Matthew C. Johnson , Moritz Münchmeyer

We present a deep-learning-based approach for identifying dark matter haloes in cosmological N-body simulations. Our framework consists of a volumetric Convolutional Neural Network to classify individual simulation particles as either halo…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-26 Soumadeep Maiti , Carlos M. Correa , Andrea Fiorilli , Andrés N. Ruiz , Dante J. Paz , Alejandro Pérez Fernández , Ariel G. Sánchez

We present an implicit likelihood approach to quantifying cosmological information over discrete catalogue data, assembled as graphs. To do so, we explore cosmological parameter constraints using mock dark matter halo catalogues. We employ…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-12 T. Lucas Makinen , Tom Charnock , Pablo Lemos , Natalia Porqueres , Alan Heavens , Benjamin D. Wandelt

We present our results from training and evaluating a convolutional neural network (CNN) to predict galaxy shapes from wide-field survey images of the first data release of the Dark Energy Survey (DES DR1). We use conventional shape…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 Dezső Ribli , László Dobos , István Csabai

We perform an analysis of the Cosmic Web as a complex network, which is built on a $\Lambda$CDM cosmological simulation. For each of nodes, which are in this case dark matter halos formed in the simulation, we compute 10 network metrics,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-04 Maksym Tsizh , Bohdan Novosyadlyj , Yurij Holovatch , Noam I Libeskind

We train deep learning models on thousands of galaxy catalogues from the state-of-the-art hydrodynamic simulations of the CAMELS project to perform regression and inference. We employ Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), architectures designed to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-10 Pablo Villanueva-Domingo , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro

Context. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been proven to perform fast classification and detection on natural images and have potential to infer astrophysical parameters on the exponentially increasing amount of sky survey imaging…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-16 J. Bialopetravičius , D. Narbutis , V. Vansevičius

Measuring the sum of the three active neutrino masses, $M_\nu$, is one of the most important challenges in modern cosmology. Massive neutrinos imprint characteristic signatures on several cosmological observables in particular on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-25 Elena Giusarma , Mauricio Reyes Hurtado , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Siyu He , Shirley Ho , ChangHoon Hahn

The formation of dark-matter halos from small cosmological perturbations generated in the early universe is a highly non-linear process typically modeled through N-body simulations. In this work, we explore the use of deep learning to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-07 Toka Alokda , Cristiano Porciani

Deep learning-based super-resolution (SR) techniques have generally achieved excellent performance in the computer vision field. Recently, it has been proven that three-dimensional (3D) SR for medical volumetric data delivers better visual…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-19 Yinhao Li , Yutaro Iwamoto , Lanfen Lin , Rui Xu , Yen-Wei Chen

We build a deep learning framework that connects the local formation process of dark matter halos to the halo bias. We train a convolutional neural network (CNN) to predict the final mass and concentration of dark matter halos from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-12 Luisa Lucie-Smith , Alexandre Barreira , Fabian Schmidt