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Galaxies grow and evolve in dark matter halos. Because dark matter is not visible, galaxies' halo masses ($\rm{M}_{\rm{halo}}$) must be inferred indirectly. We present a graph neural network (GNN) model for predicting $\rm{M}_{\rm{halo}}$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-20 Nikhil Garuda , John F. Wu , Dylan Nelson , Annalisa Pillepich

The distribution of matter that is measured through galaxy redshift and peculiar velocity surveys can be harnessed to learn about the physics of dark matter, dark energy, and the nature of gravity. To improve our understanding of the matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-04 Fei Qin , David Parkinson , Sungwook E. Hong , Cristiano G. Sabiu

Context:Halo formation time, which quantifies the mass assembly history of dark-matter halos, directly impacts galaxy properties and evolution. Although not directly observable, it can be inferred through proxies like star formation history…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-13 Atulit Srivastava , Weiguang Cui , Daniel de Andres , Jesse B. Golden-Marx , Elena Rasia , Ying Zu

We address the issue of the cosmological bias between matter and galaxy distributions, looking at dark-matter haloes as a first step to characterize galaxy clustering. Starting from the linear density field at high redshift, we follow the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Anna Elia , Suchita Kulkarni , Cristiano Porciani , Massimo Pietroni , Sabino Matarrese

Deep learning architecture with convolutional neural network (CNN) achieves outstanding success in the field of computer vision. Where U-Net, an encoder-decoder architecture structured by CNN, makes a great breakthrough in biomedical image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-13 Qing Xu , Zhicheng Ma , Na HE , Wenting Duan

We investigate and demonstrate the use of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for the task of distinguishing between merging and non-merging galaxies in simulated images, and for the first time at high redshifts (i.e. $z=2$). We extract…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-28 A. Ćiprijanović , G. F. Snyder , B. Nord , J. E. G. Peek

In this work we propose a novel approach to perform segmentation by leveraging the abstraction capabilities of convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Our method is based on Hough voting, a strategy that allows for fully automatic…

We present a generalization of our recently proposed machine learning framework, aiming to provide new physical insights into dark matter halo formation. We investigate the impact of the initial density and tidal shear fields on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-20 Luisa Lucie-Smith , Hiranya V. Peiris , Andrew Pontzen

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been intensively used for multi-class segmentation of data from different modalities and achieved state-of-the-art performances. However, a common problem when dealing with large, high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Chengjia Wang , Tom MacGillivray , Gillian Macnaught , Guang Yang , David Newby

The prediction of salient areas in images has been traditionally addressed with hand-crafted features based on neuroscience principles. This paper, however, addresses the problem with a completely data-driven approach by training a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-03 Junting Pan , Kevin McGuinness , Elisa Sayrol , Noel O'Connor , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto

We present a novel halo painting network that learns to map approximate 3D dark matter fields to realistic halo distributions. This map is provided via a physically motivated network with which we can learn the non-trivial local relation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Doogesh Kodi Ramanah , Tom Charnock , Guilhem Lavaux

Dark matter (DM) haloes forming near the thermal cut-off scale of the density perturbations are unique, since they are the smallest objects and form through monolithic gravitational collapse, while larger haloes contrastingly have…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-06 Go Ogiya , Oliver Hahn

Classical work on line segment detection is knowledge-based; it uses carefully designed geometric priors using either image gradients, pixel groupings, or Hough transform variants. Instead, current deep learning methods do away with all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Yancong Lin , Silvia L. Pintea , Jan C. van Gemert

We construct a neural network to perform regression on the local dark-matter density field given line-of-sight peculiar velocities of dark-matter halos, biased tracers of the dark matter field. Our architecture combines a convolutional…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-27 Baptiste Barthe-Gold , Nhat-Minh Nguyen , Leander Thiele

The concentration of dark matter haloes is closely linked to their mass accretion history. We utilize the halo mass accretion histories from large cosmological N-body simulations as inputs for our neural networks, which we train to predict…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-29 Tianchi Zhang , Tianxiang Mao , Wenxiao Xu , Guan Li

Efficient resource allocation with hybrid precoder design is essential for massive MIMO systems operating in millimeter wave (mmW) domain. Owing to a higher energy efficiency and a lower complexity of a partially connected hybrid…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Salman Khalid , Waqas bin Abbas , Farhan Khalid

We explore the problem of classification within a medical image data-set based on a feature vector extracted from the deepest layer of pre-trained Convolution Neural Networks. We have used feature vectors from several pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Brady Kieffer , Morteza Babaie , Shivam Kalra , H. R. Tizhoosh

We investigate a series of galaxy properties computed using the merger trees and environmental histories from dark matter only cosmological simulations, using a semi-recurrent neural network producing self-consistent predictions of galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-08 Harry George Chittenden , Jayashree Behera , Rita Tojeiro

Machine learning has the potential to improve the reconstruction of the dark matter profile of galaxies with respect to traditional methods, like rotation curves. We demonstrate on the simulation suite Illustris-TNG that a steerable…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-23 Martín de los Rios , Serafina Di Gioia , Fabio Iocco , Roberto Trotta

We develop a machine learning approach to reconstructing the cosmological initial conditions from late-time dark matter halo number density fields in redshift space, with the goal of improving sensitivity to cosmological parameters, and in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-15 Jelte Bottema , Thomas Flöss , P. Daniel Meerburg