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This paper presents a new distance metric to compare two continuous probability density functions. The main advantage of this metric is that, unlike other statistical measurements, it can provide an analytic, closed-form expression for a…

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The paper introduces a new kernel-based Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD) statistic for measuring the distance between two distributions given finitely-many multivariate samples. When the distributions are locally low-dimensional, the proposed…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-09-03 Xiuyuan Cheng , Alexander Cloninger , Ronald R. Coifman

We investigate cosmological parameter inference and model selection from a Bayesian perspective. Type Ia supernova data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES-SN5YR) are used to test the $\Lambda$CDM, $w$CDM, and CPL cosmological models.…

Applications · Statistics 2025-12-12 Nikoloz Gigiberia

This paper presents a new model-independent constraint on the Hubble constant ($H_0$) by anchoring relative distances from Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) observations to absolute distance measurements from time-delay strong Gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-13 L. R. Colaço

Identifying dynamical system (DS) is a vital task in science and engineering. Traditional methods require numerous calls to the DS solver, rendering likelihood-based or least-squares inference frameworks impractical. For efficient parameter…

Computation · Statistics 2024-09-19 Ying Zhou , Jinglai Li , Xiang Zhou , Hongqiao Wang

We examine the use of a novel variant of Physics-Informed Neural Networks to predict cosmological parameters from recent supernovae and baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) datasets. Our machine learning framework generates uncertainty…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-09 Hai Siong Tan

A common task is the determination of system parameters from spectroscopy, where one compares the experimental spectrum with calculated spectra, that depend on the desired parameters. Here we discuss an approach based on a machine learning…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-04 Farhad Taher-Ghahramani , Fulu Zheng , Alexander Eisfeld

Precise measurement about the cosmic-ray (CR) component knee is essential for revealing the mistery of CR's acceleration and propagation mechanism, as well as exploring the new physics. However, classification about the CR components is a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-17 Chao Jin , Song-zhan Chen , Hui-Hai He

Gaussian processes (GPs) have been extensively utilized as nonparametric models for component separation in 21 cm data analyses. This exploits the distinct spectral behavior of the cosmological and foreground signals, which are modeled…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-13 Kangning Diao , Richard D. P. Grumitt , Yi Mao

A majority of experimental disciplines face the challenge of exploring large and high-dimensional parameter spaces in search of new scientific discoveries. Materials science is no exception; the wide variety of synthesis, processing, and…

We propose a new and robust method to test the consistency of the cosmic evolution given by a cosmological model. It is realized by comparing the combined quantity r_d^CMB/D_V^SN, which is derived from the comoving sound horizon r_d from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-30 Yan Gong , Yin-Zhe Ma , Shuang-Nan Zhang , Xuelei Chen

This paper aims to put constraints on the transition redshift $z_t$, which determines the onset of cosmic acceleration, in cosmological-model independent frameworks. In order to do that, we use the non-parametric Gaussian Process method…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-20 J. F. Jesus , R. Valentim , A. A. Escobal , S. H. Pereira

The $\Lambda$ Cold Dark Matter ($\Lambda$CDM) cosmological model has been highly successful in predicting cosmic structure and evolution, yet recent precision measurements have highlighted discrepancies, especially in the Hubble constant…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-08 Purba Mukherjee , Maria Giovanna Dainotti , Konstantinos F. Dialektopoulos , Jackson Levi Said , Jurgen Mifsud

We present a Gaussian kernel loss function and training algorithm for convolutional neural networks that can be directly applied to both distance metric learning and image classification problems. Our method treats all training features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Benjamin J. Meyer , Ben Harwood , Tom Drummond

In this work, we implement Gaussian process regression to reconstruct the expansion history of the universe in a model-agnostic manner, using the Pantheon-Plus SN-Ia compilation in combination with two different BAO measurements (SDSS-IV…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-02 Purba Mukherjee , Anjan Ananda Sen

We use the most recent type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) observations to perform a statistical comparison between the standard $\Lambda$CDM model and its extensions [$w$CDM and $w(z)$CDM] and some alternative cosmologies: namely, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-20 B. Santos , N. Chandrachani Devi , J. S. Alcaniz

Accurate estimation of the Hubble constant, and other cosmological parameters, from distances measured by cosmic gravitational wave sirens requires sufficient allowance for the dark energy evolution. We demonstrate how model independent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-17 Ryan E. Keeley , Arman Shafieloo , Benjamin L'Huillier , Eric V. Linder

In the current work, we have implemented an extension of the standard Gaussian Process formalism, namely the Multi-Task Gaussian Process with the ability to perform a joint learning of several cosmological data simultaneously. We have…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-15 Balakrishna S. Haridasu , Vladimir V. Luković , Michele Moresco , Nicola Vittorio

In this paper, we present a kinematic analysis of the Universe's expansion history using cosmography, with a particular emphasis on the jerk parameter $j_0$, which is equal to one in the standard $\Lambda$CDM scenario. We use distance…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-02 Gabriel Rodrigues , Rayff de Souza , Jailson Alcaniz

In this study, we introduce a novel analytical Gaussian Process (GP) cosmography methodology, leveraging the differentiable properties of GPs to derive key cosmological quantities analytically. Our approach combines cosmic chronometer (CC)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-19 Bikash R. Dinda