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The rapidly growing statistical precision of galaxy surveys has lead to a need for ever-more precise predictions of the observables used to constrain cosmological and galaxy formation models. The primary avenue through which such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-24 Joseph DeRose , Risa H. Wechsler , Jeremy L. Tinker , Matthew R. Becker , Yao-Yuan Mao , Thomas McClintock , Sean McLaughlin , Eduardo Rozo , Zhongxu Zhai

An emulator is a fast-to-evaluate statistical approximation of a detailed mathematical model (simulator). When used in lieu of simulators, emulators can expedite tasks that require many repeated evaluations, such as sensitivity analyses,…

Several cosmological measurements have attained significant levels of maturity and accuracy over the last decade. Continuing this trend, future observations promise measurements of the statistics of the cosmic mass distribution at an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Salman Habib , Katrin Heitmann , David Higdon , Charles Nakhleh , Brian Williams

The computational expense of solving non-equilibrium chemistry equations in astrophysical simulations poses a significant challenge, particularly in high-resolution, large-scale cosmological models. In this work, we explore the potential of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-18 Pelle van de Bor , John Brennan , John A. Regan , Jonathan Mackey

We present an emulator suite for the one- and two-loop cold dark matter power spectrum from the Effective Field Theory of Large Scale Structures (EFTofLSS). Specifically, we emulate separately the various contributions to the one- and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-10 Despoina Farakou , Constantinos Skordis

Cosmology is in an era of rapid discovery especially in areas related to dark energy, dark matter and inflation. Quantum cosmology treats the cosmology quantum mechanically and is important when quantum effects need to be accounted for,…

Over the last decades, cosmological simulations of galaxy formation have been instrumental for advancing our understanding of structure and galaxy formation in the Universe. These simulations follow the non-linear evolution of galaxies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-20 Mark Vogelsberger , Federico Marinacci , Paul Torrey , Ewald Puchwein

We derive constraints on a coupled quintessence model with pure momentum exchange from the public $\sim$1000 deg$^2$ cosmic shear measurements from the Kilo-Degree Survey and the $\it{Planck}$ 2018 Cosmic Microwave Background data. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-16 A. Spurio Mancini , A. Pourtsidou

We present a review of the current state of the art of cosmological dark matter simulations, with particular emphasis on the implications for dark matter detection efforts and studies of dark energy. This review is intended both for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-29 Michael Kuhlen , Mark Vogelsberger , Raul Angulo

Cosmological parameter estimation is entering a new era. Large collaborations need to coordinate high-stakes analyses using multiple methods; furthermore such analyses have grown in complexity due to sophisticated models of cosmology and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 Joe Zuntz , Marc Paterno , Elise Jennings , Douglas Rudd , Alessandro Manzotti , Scott Dodelson , Sarah Bridle , Saba Sehrish , James Kowalkowski

Many real-world problems can be naturally described by mathematical formulas. The task of finding formulas from a set of observed inputs and outputs is called symbolic regression. Recently, neural networks have been applied to symbolic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Martin Vastl , Jonáš Kulhánek , Jiří Kubalík , Erik Derner , Robert Babuška

Using the N-body simulations of the AEMULUS Project, we construct an emulator for the non-linear clustering of galaxies in real and redshift space. We construct our model of galaxy bias using the halo occupation framework, accounting for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-03 Zhongxu Zhai , Jeremy L. Tinker , Matthew R. Becker , Joseph DeRose , Yao-Yuan Mao , Thomas McClintock , Sean McLaughlin , Eduardo Rozo , Risa H. Wechsler

A major challenge in extracting information from current and upcoming surveys of cosmological Large-Scale Structure (LSS) is the limited availability of computationally expensive high-fidelity simulations. We introduce calibrated Neural…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-24 He Jia

Cosmological measurements require the calculation of nontrivial quantities over large datasets. The next generation of survey telescopes (such as DES, PanSTARRS, and LSST) will yield measurements of billions of galaxies. The scale of these…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-10 Deborah Bard , Matthew Bellis , Mark T. Allen , Hasmik Yepremyan , Jan M. Kratochvil

Large sets of matter density simulations are becoming increasingly important in large-scale structure cosmology. Matter power spectra emulators, such as the Euclid Emulator and CosmicEmu, are trained on simulations to correct the non-linear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-14 Timothy Wing Hei Yiu , Janis Fluri , Tomasz Kacprzak

This paper explores learning emulators for parameter estimation with uncertainty estimation of high-dimensional dynamical systems. We assume access to a computationally complex simulator that inputs a candidate parameter and outputs a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Ruoxi Jiang , Rebecca Willett

Identifying governing equations for a dynamical system is a topic of critical interest across an array of disciplines, from mathematics to engineering to biology. Machine learning -- specifically deep learning -- techniques have shown their…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Nibodh Boddupalli , Timothy Matchen , Jeff Moehlis

Symbolic regression (SR) has emerged as a powerful method for uncovering interpretable mathematical relationships from data, offering a novel route to both scientific discovery and efficient empirical modelling. This article introduces the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Deaglan J. Bartlett , Harry Desmond , Pedro G. Ferreira , Gabriel Kronberger

We build a field level emulator for cosmic structure formation that is accurate in the nonlinear regime. Our emulator consists of two convolutional neural networks trained to output the nonlinear displacements and velocities of N-body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-02 Drew Jamieson , Yin Li , Renan Alves de Oliveira , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Shirley Ho , David N. Spergel

We present a new power spectrum emulator named EuclidEmulator that estimates the nonlinear correction to the linear dark matter power spectrum. It is based on a spectral decomposition method called polynomial chaos expansion. All steps in…