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Quantitative assessment of the uncertainties tainting the results of computer simulations is nowadays a major topic of interest in both industrial and scientific communities. One of the key issues in such studies is to get information about…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-12-05 Guillaume Damblin , Mathieu Couplet , Bertrand Iooss

We present scalable hybrid-parallel algorithms for training large-scale 3D convolutional neural networks. Deep learning-based emerging scientific workflows often require model training with large, high-dimensional samples, which can make…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Yosuke Oyama , Naoya Maruyama , Nikoli Dryden , Erin McCarthy , Peter Harrington , Jan Balewski , Satoshi Matsuoka , Peter Nugent , Brian Van Essen

Many statistical models in cosmology can be simulated forwards but have intractable likelihood functions. Likelihood-free inference methods allow us to perform Bayesian inference from these models using only forward simulations, free from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-11 Justin Alsing , Benjamin Wandelt , Stephen Feeney

We train graph neural networks on halo catalogues from Gadget N-body simulations to perform field-level likelihood-free inference of cosmological parameters. The catalogues contain $\lesssim$5,000 halos with masses $\gtrsim…

Cosmological simulations play a crucial role in elucidating the effect of physical parameters on the statistics of fields and on constraining parameters given information on density fields. We leverage diffusion generative models to address…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-13 Nayantara Mudur , Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro , Douglas P. Finkbeiner

The complexity and accuracy of current and future precision cosmology observational campaigns has made it essential to develop an efficient technique for directly combining simulation and observational datasets to determine cosmological and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Katrin Heitmann , David Higdon , Charles Nakhleh , Salman Habib

We study the compute-optimal trade-off between model and training data set sizes for large neural networks. Our result suggests a linear relation similar to that supported by the empirical analysis of chinchilla. While that work studies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Hong Jun Jeon , Benjamin Van Roy

We perform the first direct cosmological and astrophysical parameter inference from the combination of galaxy luminosity functions and colours using a simulation based inference approach. Using the Synthesizer code we simulate the dust…

Data analysis from upcoming large galaxy redshift surveys, such as Euclid and DESI will significantly improve constraints on cosmological parameters. To optimally extract the information from these galaxy surveys, it is important to control…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-22 S. Gouyou Beauchamps , P. Baratta , S. Escoffier , W. Gillard , J. Bel , J. Bautista , C. Carbone

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

The circum-galactic medium (CGM) can feasibly be mapped by multiwavelength surveys covering broad swaths of the sky. With multiple large datasets becoming available in the near future, we develop a likelihood-free Deep Learning technique…

We perform for the first time full simulation-based inference on the Lyman-$\alpha$ forest 1D power spectrum. In particular, we consider the prediction of the Lyman-$\alpha$ forest $P_{\rm 1D}(k)$ at $2.0<z<3.5$ from the CAMELS cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-26 Francesco Sinigaglia , Patricia Iglesias-Navarro , Matteo Viel

A novel method images to estimate cosmological parameters based on images is presented. In this paper, we demonstrate the use of a convolutional neural network (CNN) for constraining the mass of dark matter particle. For this purpose, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-08 Koya Murakami , Atsushi J. Nishizawa

We propose a novel approach using neural networks (NNs) to differentiate between cosmological models, and implemented LIME as an interpretability approach to identify the key features influencing our model's decisions. We show the potential…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-03 Indira Ocampo , George Alestas , Savvas Nesseris , Domenico Sapone

Machine learning has made important headway in helping to improve the treatment of quantum many-body systems. A domain of particular relevance are correlated inhomogeneous systems. What has been missing so far is a general, scalable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Alex Blania , Sandro Herbig , Fabian Dechent , Evert van Nieuwenburg , Florian Marquardt

The Lyman-alpha forest provides strong constraints on both cosmological parameters and intergalactic medium astrophysics, which are forecast to improve further with the next generation of surveys including eBOSS and DESI. As is generic in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-19 Keir K. Rogers , Hiranya V. Peiris , Andrew Pontzen , Simeon Bird , Licia Verde , Andreu Font-Ribera

Particle-mesh simulations trade small-scale accuracy for speed compared to traditional, computationally expensive N-body codes in cosmological simulations. In this work, we show how a data-driven model could be used to learn an effective…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-01 Nicolas Payot , Pablo Lemos , Laurence Perreault-Levasseur , Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro , Chirag Modi , Yashar Hezaveh

We present a new suite of over 1,500 cosmological N-body simulations with varied Warm Dark Matter (WDM) models ranging from 2.5 to 30 keV. We use these simulations to train Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to infer WDM particle masses…

The emergence of a complex, large-scale organisation of cosmic matter into the Cosmic Web is a beautiful exemplification of how complexity can be produced by simple initial conditions and simple physical laws. In the epoch of Big Data in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-12 Franco Vazza

For decades, people are developing efficient numerical methods for solving the challenging quantum many-body problem, whose Hilbert space grows exponentially with the size of the problem. However, this journey is far from over, as previous…