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Score-based diffusion modeling is a generative machine learning algorithm that can be used to sample from complex distributions. They achieve this by learning a score function, i.e., the gradient of the log-probability density of the data,…

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Generative models are a promising tool to produce cosmological simulations but face significant challenges in scalability, physical consistency, and adherence to domain symmetries, limiting their utility as alternatives to $N$-body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-26 Diana-Alexandra Onutu , Yue Zhao , Joaquin Vanschoren , Vlado Menkovski

Upcoming cosmological weak lensing surveys are expected to constrain cosmological parameters with unprecedented precision. In preparation for these surveys, large simulations with realistic galaxy populations are required to test and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-13 Yesukhei Jagvaral , Rachel Mandelbaum , Francois Lanusse

Galaxy clusters are powerful probes of astrophysics and cosmology through gravitational lensing: the clusters' mass, dominated by 85% dark matter, distorts background light. Yet, mass reconstruction lacks the scalability and large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Diego Royo , Brandon Zhao , Adolfo Muñoz , Diego Gutierrez , Katherine L. Bouman

We show that a Denoising Diffusion Probabalistic Model (DDPM), a class of score-based generative model, can be used to produce realistic mock images that mimic observations of galaxies. Our method is tested with Dark Energy Spectroscopic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-01 Michael J. Smith , James E. Geach , Ryan A. Jackson , Nikhil Arora , Connor Stone , Stéphane Courteau

Generative modeling has drawn much attention in creative and scientific data generation tasks. Score-based Diffusion Models, a type of generative model that iteratively learns to denoise data, have shown state-of-the-art results on tasks…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Tyler Presser , Agnimitra Dasgupta , Daniel Erwin , Assad Oberai

Next-generation galaxy surveys promise unprecedented precision in testing gravity at cosmological scales. However, realising this potential requires accurately modelling the non-linear cosmic web. We address this challenge by exploring…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-20 Julieth Katherine Riveros , Paola Saavedra , Hector J. Hortua , Jorge Enrique Garcia-Farieta , Ivan Olier

We introduce a diffusion-based generative model to describe the distribution of galaxies in our Universe directly as a collection of points in 3-D space (coordinates) optionally with associated attributes (e.g., velocities and masses),…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-24 Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro , Siddharth Mishra-Sharma

While score based generative models, or diffusion models, have found success in image synthesis, they are often coupled with text data or image label to be able to manipulate and conditionally generate images. Even though manipulation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Sandesh Ghimire , Armand Comas , Davin Hill , Aria Masoomi , Octavia Camps , Jennifer Dy

Kaiser & Squires have proposed a technique for mapping the dark matter in galaxy clusters using the coherent weak distortion of background galaxy images caused by gravitational lensing. We investigate the effectiveness of this technique…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Gillian Wilson , Shaun Cole , Carlos S. Frenk

Galaxies are biased tracers of the underlying cosmic web, which is dominated by dark matter components that cannot be directly observed. Galaxy formation simulations can be used to study the relationship between dark matter density fields…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-19 Victoria Ono , Core Francisco Park , Nayantara Mudur , Yueying Ni , Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro

We present a supervised learning framework of training generative models for density estimation. Generative models, including generative adversarial networks, normalizing flows, variational auto-encoders, are usually considered as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Yanfang Liu , Minglei Yang , Zezhong Zhang , Feng Bao , Yanzhao Cao , Guannan Zhang

Score-based generative models have emerged as alternatives to generative adversarial networks (GANs) and normalizing flows for tasks involving learning and sampling from complex image distributions. In this work we investigate the ability…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-23 Nayantara Mudur , Douglas P. Finkbeiner

We present a novel approach for reconstructing the projected mass distribution of clusters of galaxies from sparse and noisy weak gravitational lensing shear data. The reconstructions are regularised using knowledge gained from numerical…

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Diffusion models have shown impressive performance for image generation, often times outperforming other generative models. Since their introduction, researchers have extended the powerful noise-to-image denoising pipeline to discriminative…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-21 Fahim Ahmed Zaman , Mathews Jacob , Amanda Chang , Kan Liu , Milan Sonka , Xiaodong Wu

Score diffusion methods can learn probability densities from samples. The score of the noise-corrupted density is estimated using a deep neural network, which is then used to iteratively transport a Gaussian white noise density to a target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Zahra Kadkhodaie , Stéphane Mallat , Eero P. Simoncelli

Generating graph-structured data requires learning the underlying distribution of graphs. Yet, this is a challenging problem, and the previous graph generative methods either fail to capture the permutation-invariance property of graphs or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Jaehyeong Jo , Seul Lee , Sung Ju Hwang

Graph structures offer a versatile framework for representing diverse patterns in nature and complex systems, applicable across domains like molecular chemistry, social networks, and transportation systems. While diffusion models have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Adrien Carrel

Galaxy clusters are composed of dark matter, gas and stars. Their dark matter component, which amounts to around 80\% of the total mass, cannot be directly observed but traced by the distribution of diffused gas and galaxy members. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-10 Daniel de Andres , Weiguang Cui , Gustavo Yepes , Marco De Petris , Gianmarco Aversano , Antonio Ferragamo , Federico De Luca , A. Jiménez Muñoz

Diffusion models have been used in cosmological applications as a generative model for fast simulations and to reconstruct underlying cosmological fields or astrophysical images from noisy data. These two tasks are often treated as…

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