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We apply and test a field-level emulator for non-linear cosmic structure formation in a volume matching next-generation surveys. Inferring the cosmological parameters and initial conditions from which the particular galaxy distribution of…

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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 a machine learning approach to reconstructing the cosmological initial conditions from late-time dark matter halo number density fields in redshift space, with the goal of improving sensitivity to cosmological parameters, and in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-15 Jelte Bottema , Thomas Flöss , P. Daniel Meerburg

Reconstructing the Gaussian initial conditions at the beginning of the Universe from the survey data in a forward modeling framework is a major challenge in cosmology. This requires solving a high dimensional inverse problem with an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-28 Chirag Modi , François Lanusse , Uroš Seljak , David N. Spergel , Laurence Perreault-Levasseur

We present a new method that simultaneously solves for cosmology and galaxy bias on non-linear scales. The method uses the halo model to analytically describe the (non-linear) matter distribution, and the conditional luminosity function…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Frank van den Bosch , Surhud More , Marcello Cacciato , Houjun Mo , Xiaohu Yang

Analysing next-generation cosmological data requires balancing accurate modeling of non-linear gravitational structure formation and computational demands. We propose a solution by introducing a machine learning-based field-level emulator,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-12 Ludvig Doeser , Drew Jamieson , Stephen Stopyra , Guilhem Lavaux , Florent Leclercq , Jens Jasche

The aim of cosmological simulations is to reproduce the properties of the observed Universe, serving as tools to test structure and galaxy formation models. Constrained simulations of our local cosmological region up to a few hundred Mpc/h…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-05 Simon Pfeifer , Aurélien Valade , Stefan Gottlöber , Yehuda Hoffman , Noam I. Libeskind , Wojciech A. Hellwing

Reconstructing the density fluctuations in the early Universe that evolved into the distribution of galaxies we see today is a challenge of modern cosmology [ref.]. An accurate reconstruction would allow us to test cosmological models by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Uriel Frisch , Sabino Matarrese , Roya Mohayaee , Andrei Sobolevski

Reconstructing the initial conditions of the universe is a key problem in cosmology. Methods based on simulating the forward evolution of the universe have provided a way to infer initial conditions consistent with present-day observations.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-11 Ronan Legin , Matthew Ho , Pablo Lemos , Laurence Perreault-Levasseur , Shirley Ho , Yashar Hezaveh , Benjamin Wandelt

Learning to optimize - the idea that we can learn from data algorithms that optimize a numerical criterion - has recently been at the heart of a growing number of research efforts. One of the most challenging issues within this approach is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Louis Faury , Flavian Vasile

Reconstructing the initial density field of the Universe from the late-time matter distribution is a nontrivial task with implications for understanding structure formation in cosmology, offering insights into early Universe conditions.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-26 Koichiro Nakashima , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Atsushi J. Nishizawa , Kenji Hasegawa

For many analyses in cosmology it is necessary to reconstruct the likely distribution of unobserved fields, such as dark matter or non-luminous baryons, from observed luminous tracers. The dominant approach in cosmology has been to use the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-16 Jordan Krywonos , Yurii Kvasiuk , Matthew C. Johnson , Moritz Münchmeyer

Reconstructing the initial conditions of the Universe from late-time observations has the potential to optimally extract cosmological information. Due to the high dimensionality of the parameter space, a differentiable forward model is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-19 Adrian E. Bayer , Chirag Modi , Simone Ferraro

Finding the initial conditions that led to the current state of the universe is challenging because it involves searching over an intractable input space of initial conditions, along with modeling their evolution via tools such as N-body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-15 Vaibhav Jindal , Albert Liang , Aarti Singh , Shirley Ho , Drew Jamieson

We present a new exploratory framework to model galaxy formation and evolution in a hierarchical universe by using machine learning (ML). Our motivations are two-fold: (1) presenting a new, promising technique to study galaxy formation, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-11-30 Harshil M. Kamdar , Matthew J. Turk , Robert J. Brunner

Machine learning, and eventually true artificial intelligence techniques, are extremely important advancements in astrophysics and astronomy. We explore the application of deep learning using neural networks in order to automate the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-29 James Bird , Kellan Colburn , Linda Petzold , Philip Lubin

We investigate the prospect of reconstructing the ''cosmic distance ladder'' of the Universe using a novel deep learning framework called LADDER - Learning Algorithm for Deep Distance Estimation and Reconstruction. LADDER is trained on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-29 Rahul Shah , Soumadeep Saha , Purba Mukherjee , Utpal Garain , Supratik Pal

Given a query and dataset, the optimal way of answering the query is to make use all the information available. Modern LLMs exhibit impressive ability to memorize training data, but data not deemed important during training is forgotten,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Evan Becker , Benjamin Bowman , Matthew Trager , Tian Yu Liu , Luca Zancato , Wei Xia , Stefano Soatto

Learning to Optimize (L2O) enhances optimization efficiency with integrated neural networks. L2O paradigms achieve great outcomes, e.g., refitting optimizer, generating unseen solutions iteratively or directly. However, conventional L2O…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Mingjia Shi , Ruihan Lin , Xuxi Chen , Yuhao Zhou , Zezhen Ding , Pingzhi Li , Tong Wang , Kai Wang , Zhangyang Wang , Jiheng Zhang , Tianlong Chen

Integrated learning and optimization (ILO) is a framework in contextual optimization which aims to train a predictive model for the probability distribution of the underlying problem data uncertainty, with the goal of enhancing the quality…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-26 Yuan Tao , Huifu Xu
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