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Ongoing and planned weak lensing (WL) surveys are becoming deep enough to contain information on angular scales down to a few arcmin. To fully extract information from these small scales, we must capture non-Gaussian features in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 Tianhuan Lu , Zoltán Haiman , José Manuel Zorrilla Matilla

Deep learning is a powerful analysis technique that has recently been proposed as a method to constrain cosmological parameters from weak lensing mass maps. Due to its ability to learn relevant features from the data, it is able to extract…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-26 Janis Fluri , Tomasz Kacprzak , Aurelien Lucchi , Alexandre Refregier , Adam Amara , Thomas Hofmann

We propose a light-weight deep convolutional neural network (CNN) to estimate the cosmological parameters from simulated 3-dimensional dark matter distributions with high accuracy. The training set is based on 465 realizations of a cubic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-11 Shuyang Pan , Miaoxin Liu , Jaime Forero-Romero , Cristiano G. Sabiu , Zhigang Li , Haitao Miao , Xiao-Dong Li

Modern cosmological surveys probe the Universe deep into the nonlinear regime, where massive neutrinos suppress cosmic structure. Traditional cosmological analyses, which use the 2-point correlation function to extract information, are no…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-27 Malika Golshan , Adrian E. Bayer

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

Many different studies have shown that a wealth of cosmological information resides on small, non-linear scales. Unfortunately, there are two challenges to overcome to utilize that information. First, we do not know the optimal estimator…

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have recently been demonstrated on synthetic data to improve upon the precision of cosmological inference. In particular they have the potential to yield more precise cosmological constraints from weak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-17 Janis Fluri , Tomasz Kacprzak , Aurelien Lucchi , Alexandre Refregier , Adam Amara , Thomas Hofmann , Aurel Schneider

Weak Lensing (WL) surveys are reaching unprecedented depths, enabling the investigation of very small angular scales. At these scales, nonlinear gravitational effects lead to higher-order correlations making the matter distribution highly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-01 Divij Sharma , Biwei Dai , Uros Seljak

Modern cosmological research in large scale structure has witnessed an increasing number of applications of machine learning methods. Among them, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have received substantial attention due to their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-16 Zhengyangguang Gong , Anik Halder , Annabelle Bohrdt , Stella Seitz , David Gebauer

The standard cosmological model with cold dark matter posits a hierarchical formation of structures. We introduce topological neural networks (TNNs), implemented as message-passing neural networks on higher-order structures, to effectively…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-06 Jun-Young Lee , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro

We propose a lightweight deep convolutional neural network (lCNN) to estimate cosmological parameters from simulated three-dimensional dark matter (DM) halo distributions and associated statistics. The training dataset comprises 2000…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-20 Zhiwei Min , Xu Xiao , Jiacheng Ding , Liang Xiao , Jie Jiang , Donglin Wu , Qiufan Lin , Yang Wang , Shuai Liu , Zhixin Chen , Xiangru Li , Jinqu Zhang , Le Zhang , Xiao-Dong Li

Cosmological surveys aim at answering fundamental questions about our Universe, including the nature of dark matter or the reason of unexpected accelerated expansion of the Universe. In order to answer these questions, two important…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-02 Xinyue Zhang , Yanfang Wang , Wei Zhang , Yueqiu Sun , Siyu He , Gabriella Contardo , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Shirley Ho

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

We demonstrate the potential of Deep Learning methods for measurements of cosmological parameters from density fields, focusing on the extraction of non-Gaussian information. We consider weak lensing mass maps as our dataset. We aim for our…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-19 Jorit Schmelzle , Aurelien Lucchi , Tomasz Kacprzak , Adam Amara , Raphael Sgier , Alexandre Réfrégier , Thomas Hofmann

Weak gravitational lensing is one of the most promising cosmological probes of the late universe. Several large ongoing (DES, KiDS, HSC) and planned (LSST, EUCLID, WFIRST) astronomical surveys attempt to collect even deeper and larger scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 Dezső Ribli , Bálint Ármin Pataki , José Manuel Zorrilla Matilla , Daniel Hsu , Zoltán Haiman , István Csabai

Dark matter cannot be observed directly, but its weak gravitational lensing slightly distorts the apparent shapes of background galaxies, making weak lensing one of the most promising probes of cosmology. Several observational studies have…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-18 Dezső Ribli , Bálint Ármin Pataki , István Csabai

We study the cosmological information contained in the cosmic web, categorized as four structure types: nodes, filaments, walls, and voids, using the Quijote simulations and a modified nexus+ algorithm. We show that splitting the density…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-15 James Sunseri , Adrian E. Bayer , Jia Liu

Astrophysical processes such as feedback from supernovae and active galactic nuclei modify the properties and spatial distribution of dark matter, gas, and galaxies in a poorly understood way. This uncertainty is one of the main theoretical…

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been shown to both extract more information than the traditional two-point statistics from cosmological fields, and marginalise over astrophysical effects extremely well. However, CNNs require large…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-28 Christian Pedersen , Michael Eickenberg , Shirley Ho

The possibility to constrain cosmological parameters from galaxy surveys using field-level machine learning methods that bypass traditional summary statistics analyses, depends crucially on our ability to generate simulated training sets.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-11 Iñigo Sáez-Casares , Matteo Calabrese , Davide Bianchi , Marina S. Cagliari , Marco Chiarenza , Jean-Marc Christille , Luigi Guzzo
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