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This paper presents a multiscale approach to efficiently compute approximate optimal transport plans between point sets. It is particularly well-suited for point sets that are in high-dimensions, but are close to being intrinsically…

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In this work, we propose a novel machine learning approach to compute the optimal transport map between two continuous distributions from their unpaired samples, based on the DeepParticle methods. The proposed method leads to a min-min…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-01 Yingyuan Li , Aokun Wang , Zhongjian Wang

Feedback motion planning over cell decompositions provides a robust method for generating collision-free robot motion with formal guarantees. However, existing algorithms often produce paths with unnecessary bending, leading to slower…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Aref Amiri , Steven M. LaValle

Modifications of the matter power spectrum due to baryonic physics are one of the major theoretical uncertainties in cosmological weak lensing measurements. Developing robust mitigation schemes for this source of systematic uncertainty…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-21 Hung-Jin Huang , Tim Eifler , Rachel Mandelbaum , Scott Dodelson

We present a method to reconstruct the initial conditions of the universe using observed galaxy positions and luminosities under the assumption that the luminosities can be calibrated with weak lensing to give the mean halo mass. Our method…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-24 Chirag Modi , Yu Feng , Uros Seljak

We develop an efficient method for solving transport equations, particularly in the context of electroweak baryogenesis. It provides fully-analytical results under mild approximations and can also test semi-analytical results, which are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-28 Elina Fuchs , Marta Losada , Yosef Nir , Yehonatan Viernik

Large-scale structure surveys have reported measurements of the density of matter, $\Omega_\mathrm{m}$, and the amplitude of clustering, $\sigma_8$, that are in tension with the values inferred from observations of the cosmic microwave…

The analysis of optical images of galaxy-galaxy strong gravitational lensing systems can provide important information about the distribution of dark matter at small scales. However, the modeling and statistical analysis of these images is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-30 Adam Coogan , Konstantin Karchev , Christoph Weniger

Non-Gaussian statistics of the projected weak lensing field are powerful estimators that can outperform the constraining power of the two-point functions in inferring cosmological parameters. This is because these estimators extract the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-31 Daniela Grandón , Elena Sellentin

Measurements of gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) hold the promise of yielding unique insights into cosmology at high redshift. Uncertainties due to baryonic effects associated with galaxy formation and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-13 Eegene Chung , Simon Foreman , Alexander van Engelen

Mixture-model particle filters such as the ensemble Gaussian mixture filter require a resampling procedure in order to converge to exact Bayesian inference. Canonically, stochastic resampling is performed, which provides useful samples with…

Computation · Statistics 2025-01-30 Andrey A Popov , Renato Zanetti

We study the change in the radial distribution of dark matter within haloes in response to baryonic astrophysical processes in galaxies at different epochs, investigating the role of astrophysical modeling in cosmological hydrodynamic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-30 Premvijay Velmani , Aseem Paranjape

Adapting large-scale foundation models to new domains with limited supervision remains a fundamental challenge due to latent distribution mismatch, unstable optimization dynamics, and miscalibrated uncertainty propagation. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Aueaphum Aueawatthanaphisut , Kuepon Auewattanapisut

Existing approaches towards single image dehazing including both model-based and learning-based heavily rely on the estimation of so-called transmission maps. Despite its conceptual simplicity, using transmission maps as an intermediate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-04 Yixin Du , Xin Li

NonGaussian cosmic shear statistics based on weak-lensing aperture mass ($M_{\rm ap}$) maps can outperform the classical shear two-point correlation function ($\gamma$-2PCF) in terms of cosmological constraining power. However, reaching the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-28 Nicolas Martinet , Tiago Castro , Joachim Harnois-Déraps , Eric Jullo , Carlo Giocoli , Klaus Dolag

The disparity between the density profiles of galactic dark matter haloes predicted by dark matter only cosmological simulations and those inferred from rotation curve decomposition, the so-called cusp-core problem, suggests that baryonic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Peter R Hague , Mark I Wilkinson

We consider the problem of estimating a low-rank matrix from a noisy observed matrix. Previous work has shown that the optimal method depends crucially on the choice of loss function. In this paper, we use a family of weighted loss…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-04-08 William Leeb

We model the cosmological substratum by a viscous fluid that is supposed to provide a unified description of the dark sector and pressureless baryonic matter. In the homogeneous and isotropic background the \textit{total} energy density of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 W Zimdahl , W S Hipólito-Ricaldi , H E S Velten

We present a concept study on weak lensing map reconstruction through the cosmic magnification effect in galaxy number density distribution. We propose a minimal variance linear estimator to minimize both the dominant systematical and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-16 Xinjuan Yang , Pengjie Zhang

Gravitational lensing is potentially able to observe mass-selected halos, and to measure the projected cluster mass function. An optimal mass-selection requires a quantitative understanding of the noise behavior in mass maps. This paper is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 L. Van Waerbeke