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We exploit a recently derived inversion scheme for arbitrary deep neural networks to develop a new semi-supervised learning framework that applies to a wide range of systems and problems. The approach outperforms current state-of-the-art…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-15 Randall Balestriero , Vincent Roger , Herve G. Glotin , Richard G. Baraniuk

The advent of synoptic sky surveys has spurred the development of techniques for real-time classification of astronomical sources in order to ensure timely follow-up with appropriate instruments. Previous work has focused on algorithm…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-18 Kitty K. Lo , Tara Murphy , Umaa Rebbapragada , Kiri Wagstaff

Modeling the light curves (LCs) of luminous astronomical transients, such as supernovae, is crucial for understanding their progenitor physics, particularly with the exponential growth of survey data. However, existing methods face…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-21 Liang-Duan Liu , Yu-Hao Zhang , Yun-Wei Yu , Ze-Xin Du , Jing-Yao Li , Guang-Lei Wu , Zi-Gao Dai

Unsupervised visual representation learning has gained much attention from the computer vision community because of the recent achievement of contrastive learning. Most of the existing contrastive learning frameworks adopt the instance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Mingkai Zheng , Fei Wang , Shan You , Chen Qian , Changshui Zhang , Xiaogang Wang , Chang Xu

Serial femtosecond crystallography at X-ray free electron laser facilities opens a new era for the determination of crystal structure. However, the data processing of those experiments is facing unprecedented challenge, because the total…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-09-22 Jianan Xie , Ji Liu , Chi Zhang , Xihui Chen , Ping Huai , Jie Zheng , Xiaofeng Zhang

Accurate identification of unobservable regions in nighttime is essential for autonomous scheduling and data quality control in observations.Traditional methods-such as infrared sensing or photometric extinction-provide only…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-23 Jian Cui , Guo-Wang Du , Xin-Zhong Er , Chu-Xiang Li , Jun-Fan Hou , Yu-Xin Xin , Xiang-kun Liu , Xiao-Wei Liu

Historically, light curve studies of supernovae (SNe) and other transient classes have focused on individual objects with copious and high signal-to-noise observations. In the nascent era of wide field transient searches, objects with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Nathan Sanders , Michael Betancourt , Alicia Soderberg

A key science goal of large sky surveys such as those conducted by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory and precursors to the Square Kilometre Array is the identification of variable and transient objects. One approach is the statistical analysis…

Classifying transients based on multi band light curves is a challenging but crucial problem in the era of GAIA and LSST since the sheer volume of transients will make spectroscopic classification unfeasible. Here we present a nonparametric…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-26 Melvin M. Varughese , Rainer von Sachs , Michael Stephanou , Bruce A. Bassett

This paper presents a semi-supervised learning framework that is new in being designed for automatic modulation classification (AMC). By carefully utilizing unlabeled signal data with a self-supervised contrastive-learning pre-training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Dongxin Liu , Peng Wang , Tianshi Wang , Tarek Abdelzaher

Despite the advancements in deep learning for camera relocalization tasks, obtaining ground truth pose labels required for the training process remains a costly endeavor. While current weakly supervised methods excel in lightweight label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Jialu Wang , Kaichen Zhou , Andrew Markham , Niki Trigoni

Semi-Supervised Learning (SSL) is a framework that utilizes both labeled and unlabeled data to enhance model performance. Conventional SSL methods operate under the assumption that labeled and unlabeled data share the same label space.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Noam Fluss , Guy Hacohen , Daphna Weinshall

The Wide Field Camera Transit Survey is a pioneer program aimed to search for extra-solar planets in the near-infrared. The standard data reduction pipeline of the program uses aperture photometry to construct the light curves. We…

A new golden age in astronomy is upon us, dominated by data. Large astronomical surveys are broadcasting unprecedented rates of information, demanding machine learning as a critical component in modern scientific pipelines to handle the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-17 Tarek Allam , Julien Peloton , Jason D. McEwen

Low light conditions not only degrade human visual experience, but also reduce the performance of downstream machine analytics. Although many works have been designed for low-light enhancement or domain adaptive machine analytics, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Wenjing Wang , Zhengbo Xu , Haofeng Huang , Jiaying Liu

A long-standing issue with deep learning is the need for large and consistently labeled datasets. Although the current research in semi-supervised learning can decrease the required amount of annotated data by a factor of 10 or even more,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Lars Schmarje , Johannes Brünger , Monty Santarossa , Simon-Martin Schröder , Rainer Kiko , Reinhard Koch

Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) remote sensing encompasses two major directions: data interpretation and parameter inversion. However, both directions rely heavily on costly and labor-intensive labeled data and field measurements, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Yuan Gao , Shaobo Xia , Pu Wang , Xiaohuan Xi , Sheng Nie , Cheng Wang

Deep neural networks for time series must capture complex temporal patterns, to effectively represent dynamic data. Self- and semi-supervised learning methods show promising results in pre-training large models, which -- when finetuned for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Yuhan Xie , William Cappelletti , Mahsa Shoaran , Pascal Frossard

Astrophysical light curves are particularly challenging data objects due to the intensity and variety of noise contaminating them. Yet, despite the astronomical volumes of light curves available, the majority of algorithms used to process…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-07 Mario Morvan , Nikolaos Nikolaou , Kai Hou Yip , Ingo Waldmann

We present a framework for detecting transient gamma-ray phenomena in a controlled environment by combining end-to-end simulations of the Fermi-LAT sky with self-supervised spatio-temporal deep learning. We generate a ten-year synthetic…