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We discuss the extension to redshift space of a rescaling algorithm, designed to alter the effective cosmology of a pre-existing simulated particle distribution or catalogue of dark matter haloes. The rescaling approach was initially…

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We develop a Learning Direct Optimization (LiDO) method for the refinement of a latent variable model that describes input image x. Our goal is to explain a single image x with an interpretable 3D computer graphics model having scene graph…

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We train a novel deep learning architecture to perform likelihood-free inference on the value of the cosmological parameters from halo catalogs of the Quijote N-body simulations. Our model takes as input a halo catalog where each halo is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-23 Atrideb Chatterjee , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro

Predictive simulations of complex systems are essential for applications ranging from weather forecasting to drug design. The veracity of these predictions hinges on their capacity to capture the effective system dynamics. Massively…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-10-20 Pantelis R. Vlachas , Georgios Arampatzis , Caroline Uhler , Petros Koumoutsakos

A method we developed recently for the reconstruction of the initial density field in the nearby Universe is applied to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7. A high-resolution N-body constrained simulation (CS) of the reconstructed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 Huiyuan Wang , H. J. Mo , Xiaohu Yang , Youcai Zhang , JingJing Shi , Y. P. Jing , Chengze Liu , Shijie Li , Xi Kang , Yang Gao

We use the Millennium Simulation, a 10 billion particle simulation of the growth of cosmic structure, to construct a new model of galaxy clustering. We adopt a methodology that falls midway between the traditional semi-analytic approach and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Lan Wang , Cheng Li , Guinevere Kauffmann , Gabriella De Lucia

The properties of the matter density field in the initial conditions have a decisive impact on the features of the large-scale structure of the Universe as observed today. These need to be studied via $N$-body simulations, which are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-21 Jazhiel Chacón , Isidro Gómez-Vargas , Ricardo Menchaca Méndez , José Alberto Vázquez

Accurately determining the shape of deformable objects and the location of their internal structures is crucial for medical tasks that require precise targeting, such as robotic biopsies. We introduce LUDO, a method for accurate low-latency…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Pit Henrich , Franziska Mathis-Ullrich , Paul Maria Scheikl

Field-level inference has emerged as a promising framework to fully harness the cosmological information encoded in next-generation galaxy surveys. It involves performing Bayesian inference to jointly estimate the cosmological parameters…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-19 Hugo Simon , François Lanusse , Arnaud de Mattia

Pre-trained image restoration models often fail on real-world, out-of-distribution degradations due to significant domain gaps. Adapting to these unseen domains is challenging, as out-of-distribution data lacks ground truth, and traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Yuyang Hu , Mojtaba Sahraee-Ardakan , Arpit Bansal , Kangfu Mei , Christian Qi , Peyman Milanfar , Mauricio Delbracio

Reliable visual perception under low illumination remains a core challenge for autonomous robotic systems, where degraded image quality directly compromises navigation, inspection, and various operations. A recent training free approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Nathan Shankar , Pawel Ladosz , Hujun Yin

The field of machine learning has drawn increasing interest from various other fields due to the success of its methods at solving a plethora of different problems. An application of these has been to train artificial neural networks to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-21 Augusto T. Chantada , Susana J. Landau , Pavlos Protopapas , Claudia G. Scóccola , Cecilia Garraffo

When constructing galaxy mock catalogs based on suits of dark matter halo catalogs generated with approximated, calibrated or machine-learning approaches, the assignment of intrinsic properties for such tracers is a step of paramount…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-04 Andres Balaguera-Antolinez , Antonio D. Montero-Dorta

In this paper, we introduce Mujic{\Lambda} (Mapping the Universe with Jax-based Initial Condition Reconstr{\Lambda}ction), an optimization-based framework for reconstructing initial conditions from realistic galaxy spectroscopic redshift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-30 Chenze Dong , Benjamin Horowitz , Adrian E. Bayer , Khee-Gan Lee

We address the problem of learning observation models end-to-end for estimation. Robots operating in partially observable environments must infer latent states from multiple sensory inputs using observation models that capture the joint…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Paloma Sodhi , Eric Dexheimer , Mustafa Mukadam , Stuart Anderson , Michael Kaess

We consider the global minimization of a particular type of minimum structured optimization problems wherein the variables must belong to some basic set, the feasible domain is described by the intersection of a large number of functional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-09 Guillaume Van Dessel , François Glineur

We introduce LUMOS, a language-conditioned multi-task imitation learning framework for robotics. LUMOS learns skills by practicing them over many long-horizon rollouts in the latent space of a learned world model and transfers these skills…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Iman Nematollahi , Branton DeMoss , Akshay L Chandra , Nick Hawes , Wolfram Burgard , Ingmar Posner

Learning to optimize (L2O) is an emerging technique to solve mathematical optimization problems with learning-based methods. Although with great success in many real-world scenarios such as wireless communications, computer networks, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Qingyu Song , Wei Lin , Juncheng Wang , Hong Xu

Topology optimization by optimally distributing materials in a given domain requires non-gradient optimizers to solve highly complicated problems. However, with hundreds of design variables or more involved, solving such problems would…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Changyu Deng , Yizhou Wang , Can Qin , Yun Fu , Wei Lu

Most decentralized optimization algorithms are handcrafted. While endowed with strong theoretical guarantees, these algorithms generally target a broad class of problems, thereby not being adaptive or customized to specific problem…

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