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One of the important unknowns of current cosmology concerns the effects of the large scale distribution of matter on the formation and evolution of dark matter haloes and galaxies. One main difficulty in answering this question lies in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-14 Marius Cautun , Rien van de Weygaert , Bernard J. T. Jones , Carlos S. Frenk , Wojcieh A. Hellwing

We present a novel graph-based machine learning classifier for identifying the dark matter cosmic web environments of galaxies. Large galaxy surveys offer comprehensive statistical views of how galaxy properties are shaped by large-scale…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-02 Dakshesh Kololgi , Krishna Naidoo , Amelie Saintonge , Ofer Lahav

Bayesian methods for learning Gaussian graphical models offer a principled framework for quantifying model uncertainty and incorporating prior knowledge. However, their scalability is constrained by the computational cost of jointly…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-28 Reza Mohammadi , Marit Schoonhoven , Lucas Vogels , S. Ilker Birbil

Many state-of-the art visualization techniques must be tailored to the specific type of dataset, its modality (CT, MRI, etc.), the recorded object or anatomical region (head, spine, abdomen, etc.) and other parameters related to the data…

Graphics · Computer Science 2009-06-15 Dženan Zukić , Christof Rezk-Salama , Andreas Kolb

We measure the void size function (VSF) from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS DR16) and perform the cosmological constraints. The BOSS DR16 galaxy sample is selected in the redshift range from $z = 0.2$ to 0.8, considering…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-04 Yingxiao Song , Yan Gong , Xingchen Zhou , Haitao Miao , Kwan Chuen Chan , Xuelei Chen

The ShapeFit compression method has been shown to be a powerful tool to gain cosmological information from galaxy power spectra in an effective, model-independent way. Here we present its performance on the blind PT challenge mock products…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-09 Samuel Brieden , Héctor Gil-Marín , Licia Verde

We study relevant cosmological topics in the framework of a certain vector-tensor theory of gravitation (hereafter VT). This theory is first compared with the so-called extended electromagnetism (EE). These theories have a notable…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-03 Roberto Dale , Diego Sáez

This paper presents a new algorithm, Weighted Squared Volume Minimization (WSVM), for generating high-quality tetrahedral meshes from closed triangle meshes. Drawing inspiration from the principle of minimal surfaces that minimize squared…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Kaixin Yu , Yifu Wang , Peng Song , Xiangqiao Meng , Ying He , Jianjun Chen

We consider minimizing a smooth and strongly convex objective function using a stochastic Newton method. At each iteration, the algorithm is given an oracle access to a stochastic estimate of the Hessian matrix. The oracle model includes…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-29 Sen Na , Michał Dereziński , Michael W. Mahoney

Choosing a decision threshold is one of the challenging job in any classification tasks. How much the model is accurate, if the deciding boundary is not picked up carefully, its entire performance would go in vain. On the other hand, for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Bharat Bohara

Provided a random realization of the cosmological model, observations of our cosmic neighborhood now allow us to build simulations of the latter down to the non-linear threshold. The resulting local Universe models are thus accurate up to a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-10 Jenny G. Sorce

The benefits of the wavelet approach for density estimation are well established in the literature, especially when the density to estimate is irregular or heterogeneous in smoothness. However, wavelet density estimates are typically not…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-05-02 Carlos Aya-Moreno , Gery Geenens , Spiridon Penev

The largest source of systematic errors in the time-delay cosmography method likely arises from the lens model mass distribution, where an inaccurate choice of model could in principle bias the value of $H_0$. A Bayesian hierarchical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-09 Matthew R. Gomer , Dominique Sluse , Lyne Van de Vyvere , Simon Birrer , Frederic Courbin

We present a new method for recovering the cosmological density, velocity, and potential fields from all-sky redshift catalogues. The method is based on an expansion of the fields in orthogonal radial (Bessel) and angular (spherical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Karl Fisher , Ofer Lahav , Yehuda Hoffman , Donald Lynden-Bell , Saleem Zaroubi

The initial shear field plays a central role in the formation of large-scale structures, and in shaping the geometry, morphology, and topology of the cosmic web. We discuss a recent theoretical framework for the shear tensor, termed the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-06 Graziano Rossi

Semantic scene completion, also known as semantic occupancy prediction, can provide dense geometric and semantic information for autonomous vehicles, which attracts the increasing attention of both academia and industry. Unfortunately,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Song Wang , Jiawei Yu , Wentong Li , Wenyu Liu , Xiaolu Liu , Junbo Chen , Jianke Zhu

Cosmological constraints on neutrino mass offer a promising avenue for advancing our understanding of both fundamental particle physics and the evolution of cosmic large-scale structure. To overcome challenges associated with traditional…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-03 Jiaqi Wang , Willem Elbers , Carlos S. Frenk , Shaun Cole , Xiaohu Yang , Ian G. McCarthy , Rien van de Weygaert

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

In this work, a minisuperspace model for the projectable Ho\v{r}ava-Lifshitz (HL) gravity without the detailed balance condition is investigated. The Wheeler-deWitt equation is derived and its solutions are studied and discussed for some…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 Orfeu Bertolami , Carlos A. D. Zarro

Visual geometry transformers have become powerful architectures for multi-view 3D reconstruction, enabling joint prediction of multiple 3D attributes in a feed-forward manner. However, their computational cost grows quadratically with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Shuhong Zheng , Michael Oechsle , Erik Sandström , Marie-Julie Rakotosaona , Federico Tombari , Igor Gilitschenski