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In this paper, we use The Quijote simulations in order to extract the cosmological parameters through Bayesian Neural Networks. This kind of model has a remarkable ability to estimate the associated uncertainty, which is one of the ultimate…

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Simulation-based inference (SBI) enables cosmological parameter estimation when closed-form likelihoods or models are unavailable. However, SBI relies on machine learning for neural compression and density estimation. This requires large…

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In this work, we forecast the number of, and requirements on, N-body simulations needed to train hybrid effective field theory (HEFT) emulators for a range of use cases, using a hybrid of HMcode and perturbation theory as a surrogate model.…

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Extracting cosmological parameters from galaxy/halo catalogues with sub-percent level accuracy is an important aspect of modern cosmology, especially in view of ongoing and upcoming surveys such as Euclid, DESI, and LSST. While traditional…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-18 Atrideb Chatterjee , Arka Banerjee , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Tom Abel

We present the Cosmology and Astrophysics with MachinE Learning Simulations --CAMELS-- project. CAMELS is a suite of 4,233 cosmological simulations of $(25~h^{-1}{\rm Mpc})^3$ volume each: 2,184 state-of-the-art (magneto-)hydrodynamic…

The inference of cosmological quantities requires accurate and large hydrodynamical cosmological simulations. Unfortunately, their computational time can take millions of CPU hours for a modest coverage in cosmological scales ($\approx (100…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-03 Chotipan Boonkongkird , Guilhem Lavaux , Sebastien Peirani , Yohan Dubois , Natalia Porqueres , Eleni Tsaprazi

We train a neural network model to predict the full phase space evolution of cosmological N-body simulations. Its success implies that the neural network model is accurately approximating the Green's function expansion that relates the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-16 Drew Jamieson , Yin Li , Siyu He , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Shirley Ho , Renan Alves de Oliveira , David N. Spergel

We perform an analysis of the Cosmic Web as a complex network, which is built on a $\Lambda$CDM cosmological simulation. For each of nodes, which are in this case dark matter halos formed in the simulation, we compute 10 network metrics,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-04 Maksym Tsizh , Bohdan Novosyadlyj , Yurij Holovatch , Noam I Libeskind

High-resolution (HR) simulations in cosmology, in particular when including baryons, can take millions of CPU hours. On the other hand, low-resolution (LR) dark matter simulations of the same cosmological volume use minimal computing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-30 Adam Rouhiainen , Michael Gira , Moritz Münchmeyer , Kangwook Lee , Gary Shiu

How much cosmological information can we reliably extract from existing and upcoming large-scale structure observations? Many summary statistics fall short in describing the non-Gaussian nature of the late-time Universe in comparison to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-15 Kai Lehman , Sven Krippendorf , Jochen Weller , Klaus Dolag

Current and upcoming cosmological observations allow us to probe structures on smaller and smaller scales, entering highly nonlinear regimes. In order to obtain theoretical predictions in these regimes, large cosmological simulations have…

Numerical simulations play a key important role in modern cosmology. Examples are plenty including the cosmic web - large scale structure of the distribution of galaxies in space - which was first observed in N-body simulations and later…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-07 Anatoly Klypin , Francisco Prada , Johan Comparat

Current and upcoming cosmological surveys will produce unprecedented amounts of high-dimensional data, which require complex high-fidelity forward simulations to accurately model both physical processes and systematic effects which describe…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-11 Aizhan Akhmetzhanova , Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro , Siddharth Mishra-Sharma

Neural network-based emulators for the inference of stellar parameters and elemental abundances represent an increasingly popular methodology in modern spectroscopic surveys. However, these approaches are often constrained by their…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-10 Tomasz Różański , Yuan-Sen Ting

Cosmic Voids are a promising probe of cosmology for spectroscopic galaxy surveys due to their unique response to cosmological parameters. Their combination with other probes promises to break parameter degeneracies. Due to simplifying…

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Compressing large data sets to a manageable number of summaries that are informative about the underlying parameters vastly simplifies both frequentist and Bayesian inference. When only simulations are available, these summaries are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-06 Tom Charnock , Guilhem Lavaux , Benjamin D. Wandelt

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

Cosmological simulations play an important role in the interpretation of astronomical data, in particular in comparing observed data to our theoretical expectations. However, to compare data with these simulations, the simulations in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-14 Jacky H. T. Yip , Xinyue Zhang , Yanfang Wang , Wei Zhang , Yueqiu Sun , Gabriella Contardo , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Siyu He , Shy Genel , Shirley Ho

Many of the most exciting questions in astrophysics and cosmology, including the majority of observational probes of dark energy, rely on an understanding of the nonlinear regime of structure formation. In order to fully exploit the…

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Upcoming cosmological surveys will provide unprecedented amount of data, which will require innovative statistical methods to maximize the scientific exploitation. Standard cosmological analyses based on abundances, two-point and…

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