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This paper describes an adaptation of the Local Interpretable Model-Agnostic Explanations (LIME) AI method to operate under a biometric verification setting. LIME was initially proposed for networks with the same output classes used for…

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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 use of time-delay gravitational lenses to examine the cosmological expansion introduces a new standard ruler with which to test theoretical models. The sample suitable for this kind of work now includes 12 lens systems, which have thus…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Jun-Jie Wei , Xue-Feng Wu , Fulvio Melia

Several models based on General Relativity and Modified Gravity aim to reproduce the observed universe with precision comparable to the flat-$\Lambda$CDM cosmological model. In this study, we investigate the consistency of some of these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-05 Fernanda Oliveira , Bruno Ribeiro , Wiliam S. Hipólito-Ricaldi , Felipe Avila , Armando Bernui

Radio galaxy morphological classification is one of the critical steps when producing source catalogues for large-scale radio continuum surveys. While many recent studies attempted to classify source radio morphology from survey image data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-10 Hongming Tang , Shiyu Yue , Zijun Wang , Jizhe Lai , Leyao Wei , Yan Luo , Chuni Liang , Jiani Chu

We present results exploring the role that probabilistic deep learning models can play in cosmology from large-scale astronomical surveys through photometric redshift (photo-z) estimation. Photo-z uncertainty estimates are critical for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-20 Evan Jones , Tuan Do , Bernie Boscoe , Jack Singal , Yujie Wan , Zooey Nguyen

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown exceptional performance for a range of medical imaging tasks. However, conventional CNNs are not able to explain their reasoning process, therefore limiting their adoption in clinical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Linde S. Hesse , Ana I. L. Namburete

Cosmologists aim to model the evolution of initially low amplitude Gaussian density fluctuations into the highly non-linear "cosmic web" of galaxies and clusters. They aim to compare simulations of this structure formation process with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-05 Renan Alves de Oliveira , Yin Li , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Shirley Ho , David N. Spergel

Strong lensing has developed into an important astrophysical tool for probing both cosmology and galaxies (their structures, formations, and evolutions). Now several hundreds of strong lens systems produced by massive galaxies have been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Shuo Cao , Zong-Hong Zhu

Machine learning is a field that has been growing in importance since the early 2010s due to the increasing accuracy of classification models and hardware advances that have enabled faster training on large datasets. In the field of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-15 Alexis Mathis , Daniel Yu , Nolan Faught , Tyrian Hobbs.

The ubiquity of neural networks (NNs) in real-world applications, from healthcare to natural language processing, underscores their immense utility in capturing complex relationships within high-dimensional data. However, NNs come with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Chang Yue , Niraj K. Jha

The abundance of new cosmological data becoming available means that a wider range of cosmological models are testable than ever before. However, an important distinction must be made between parameter fitting and model selection. While…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Pia Mukherjee , David Parkinson , Andrew R. Liddle

In cosmology, the analysis of observational evidence is very important to test theoretical models of the Universe. Artificial neural networks are powerful and versatile computational tools for data modelling and are recently being…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-15 Juan de Dios Rojas Olvera , Isidro Gómez-Vargas , J. Alberto Vázquez

In the era of precision cosmology, the ability to generate accurate and large-scale galaxy catalogs is crucial for advancing our understanding of the universe. With the flood of cosmological data from current and upcoming missions,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-13 Tanner Sether , Elena Giusarma , Mauricio Reyes-Hurtado

Precise cosmological inference from next-generation weak lensing surveys requires extracting non-Gaussian information beyond standard two-point statistics. We present a hybrid machine-learning (ML) framework that integrates field-level…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-19 Jiacheng Ding , Chen Su , Ji Yao , Le Zhang , Huanyuan Shan

Digital mammography is essential to breast cancer detection, and deep learning offers promising tools for faster and more accurate mammogram analysis. In radiology and other high-stakes environments, uninterpretable ("black box") deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Julia Yang , Alina Jade Barnett , Jon Donnelly , Satvik Kishore , Jerry Fang , Fides Regina Schwartz , Chaofan Chen , Joseph Y. Lo , Cynthia Rudin

Deep learning has achieved remarkable success across many domains, but it has also created a growing demand for interpretability in model predictions. Although many explainable machine learning methods have been proposed, post-hoc…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Shijian Xu , Marcello Massimo Negri , Volker Roth

This study presents a multimodal AI framework designed for precisely classifying medical diagnostic images. Utilizing publicly available datasets, the proposed system compares the strengths of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-04 Shibbir Ahmed , Shahnewaz Karim Sakib , Anindya Bijoy Das

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…

Understanding why machine learning models behave the way they do empowers both system designers and end-users in many ways: in model selection, feature engineering, in order to trust and act upon the predictions, and in more intuitive user…

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