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We propose a new sequential classification model for astronomical objects based on a recurrent convolutional neural network (RCNN) which uses sequences of images as inputs. This approach avoids the computation of light curves or difference…

Type Ia supernovae (SN Ia) have provided the first evidence for an accelerating universe and for the existence of an unknown ``dark energy'' driving this expansion. The 5-year Supernova Legacy Survey (SNLS) will deliver \~700 type Ia…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 N. Palanque-Delabrouille

With several new large-scale surveys on the horizon, including LSST, TESS, ZTF, and Evryscope, faster and more accurate analysis methods will be required to adequately process the enormous amount of data produced. Deep learning, used in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-02 Emily M. Boudreaux

Artificial neural networks are finding increasing use in astronomy, but understanding the limitations of these models can be difficult. We utilize a statistical method, a sensitivity probe, designed to complement established methods for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-07 C. Jacobs , K. Glazebrook , A. K. Qin , T. Collett

The efficient classification of different types of supernova is one of the most important problems for observational cosmology. However, spectroscopic confirmation of most objects in upcoming photometric surveys, such as the The Rubin…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-17 Marcelo Vargas dos Santos , Miguel Quartin , Ribamar R. R. Reis

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) often rely on very large datasets for training. Given the large size of such datasets, it is conceivable that they contain certain samples that either do not contribute or negatively impact the DNN's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Kashyap Chitta , Jose M. Alvarez , Elmar Haussmann , Clement Farabet

We present the use of self-supervised learning to explore and exploit large unlabeled datasets. Focusing on 42 million galaxy images from the latest data release of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Legacy Imaging Surveys, we…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-02 George Stein , Peter Harrington , Jacqueline Blaum , Tomislav Medan , Zarija Lukic

With the advent of powerful telescopes such as the Square Kilometer Array and the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, we are entering an era of multiwavelength transient astronomy that will lead to a dramatic increase in data volume. Machine…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-09 K. Sooknunan , M. Lochner , Bruce A. Bassett , H. V. Peiris , R. Fender , A. J. Stewart , M. Pietka , P. A. Woudt , J. D. McEwen , O. Lahav

We train and apply convolutional neural networks, a machine learning technique developed to learn from and classify image data, to Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey (CFHTLS) imaging for the identification of potential strong…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-16 Colin Jacobs , Karl Glazebrook , Thomas Collett , Anupreeta More , Christopher McCarthy

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) that are multiply imaged by gravitational lensing can extend the SN Ia Hubble diagram to very high redshifts $(z\gtrsim 2)$, probe potential SN Ia evolution, and deliver high-precision constraints on $H_0$, $w$,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-04 Daniel A. Goldstein , Peter E. Nugent

With large-scale surveys such as the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), it has become possible to obtain a well-sampled light curve spanning the full length of the survey for any discovery within the survey footprint. Similarly, any transient…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-14 Jacco H. Terwel , Kate Maguire , Jesper Sollerman , Phil Wiseman , Tracy X. Chen , Matthew J. Graham , Russ R. Laher , Reed Riddle , Niharika Sravan

The next generation of observatories will facilitate the discovery of new types of astrophysical transients. The detection of such phenomena, whose characteristics are presently poorly constrained, will hinge on the ability to perform blind…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-15 Iftach Sadeh

Modern time-domain surveys like the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) and the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) generate hundreds of thousands to millions of alerts, demanding automatic, unified classification of transients and variable…

In our today's information society more and more data emerges, e.g.~in social networks, technical applications, or business applications. Companies try to commercialize these data using data mining or machine learning methods. For this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-10-17 Tobias Reitmaier , Adrian Calma , Bernhard Sick

Deep learning has revolutionized artificial intelligence (AI), achieving remarkable progress in fields such as computer vision, speech recognition, and natural language processing. Moreover, the recent success of large language models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Yangfan Hu , Qian Zheng , Guoqi Li , Huajin Tang , Gang Pan

We present the results of a programme to search and identify the nature of unusual sources within the All-sky Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) that is based on a machine-learning algorithm for anomaly detection, namely one-class…

During last several years, our research team worked on development of a spiking neural network (SNN) architecture, which could be used in the wide range of supervised learning classification tasks. It should work under the condition, that…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Mikhail Kiselev

We study supernova (SN) classification using the machine learning method of the Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) in the Chinese Space Station Survey Telescope Ultra-Deep Field (CSST-UDF) photometric survey, and explore the improvement of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-05 Minglin Wang , Yan Gong , Dejia Zhou , Xuelei Chen

Active learning, an iterative process of selecting the most informative data points for exploration, is crucial for efficient characterization of materials and chemicals property space. Neural networks excel at predicting these properties…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-06-02 Sarah I. Allec , Maxim Ziatdinov

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have proven to be state-of-the-art models for supervised computer vision tasks, such as image classification. However, large labeled data sets are generally needed for the training and validation of such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Patrick Hemmer , Niklas Kühl , Jakob Schöffer