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We present a deep-learning-based approach for identifying dark matter haloes in cosmological N-body simulations. Our framework consists of a volumetric Convolutional Neural Network to classify individual simulation particles as either halo…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-26 Soumadeep Maiti , Carlos M. Correa , Andrea Fiorilli , Andrés N. Ruiz , Dante J. Paz , Alejandro Pérez Fernández , Ariel G. Sánchez

In recent years, federated learning (FL) has been widely applied for supporting decentralized collaborative learning scenarios. Among existing FL models, federated logistic regression (FLR) is a widely used statistic model and has been used…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Xiaodian Cheng , Wanhang Lu , Xinyang Huang , Shuihai Hu , Kai Chen

Algorithms based on spatial tree traversal are widely regarded as among the most efficient and flexible approaches for many problems in CPU-based high-performance computing (HPC). However, directly transferring these algorithms to GPU…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Jens Stücker , Oliver Hahn , Lukas Winkler , Adrian Gutierrez Adame , Thomas Flöss

The Friends-of-Friends (FoF) algorithm is a standard technique used in cosmological $N$-body simulations to identify structures. Its goal is to find clusters of particles (called groups) that are separated by at most a cut-off radius.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-26 James S. Willis , Matthieu Schaller , Pedro Gonnet , John C. Helly

Approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) in high-dimensional vector spaces has a wide range of real-world applications. Numerous methods have been proposed to handle ANNS efficiently, while graph-based indexes have gained prominence due…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Zhonggen Li , Xiangyu Ke , Yifan Zhu , Bocheng Yu , Baihua Zheng , Yunjun Gao

Cosmological simulations are useful tools for studying the evolution of galaxies, and it is critical to accurately identify galaxies and their halos from raw simulation data. The friends-of-friend (FoF) algorithm has been widely adopted for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 Jinsu Rhee , Pascal Elahi , Sukyoung K. Yi

Traditional deep learning relies on end-to-end backpropagation for training, but it suffers from drawbacks such as high memory consumption and not aligning with biological neural networks. Recent advancements have introduced locally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Junhao Su , Chenghao He , Feiyu Zhu , Xiaojie Xu , Dongzhi Guan , Chenyang Si

We present a modified version of the friends-of-friends (FOF) structure finding algorithm, designed specifically to locate groups or clusters of galaxies in photometric redshift datasets. The main objective of this paper is to show that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. S. Botzler , J. Snigula , R. Bender , U. Hopp

Approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search in high dimensions is an integral part of several computer vision systems and gains importance in deep learning with explicit memory representations. Since PQT, FAISS, and SONG started to leverage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Fabian Groh , Lukas Ruppert , Patrick Wieschollek , Hendrik P. A. Lensch

We present a fast, differentiable, GPU-accelerated optimization method for ray path tracing in environments containing planar reflectors and straight diffraction edges. Based on Fermat's principle, our approach reformulates the path-finding…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-01 Jérome Eertmans , Sophie Lequeu , Benoît Legat , Laurent Jacques , Claude Oestges

We present JAX-PF, an open-source, GPU-accelerated, and differentiable Phase Field (PF) software package, supporting both explicit and implicit time stepping schemes. Leveraging the modern computing architecture JAX, JAX-PF achieves high…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Fanglei Hu , Jiachen Guo , Stephen Niezgoda , Wing Kam Liu , Jian Cao

I describe a fast algorithm for the identification of connected sets of points where the point-wise connections are determined by a fixed spatial distance - a task commonly referred to in the cosmological simulation community as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-04 Peter E. Creasey

We describe a new method (\textsc{CompaSO}) for identifying groups of particles in cosmological $N$-body simulations. \textsc{CompaSO} builds upon existing spherical overdensity (SO) algorithms by taking into consideration the tidal radius…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-25 Boryana Hadzhiyska , Daniel Eisenstein , Sownak Bose , Lehman H. Garrison , Nina Maksimova

Cosmological N-body simulations are crucial for understanding how the Universe evolves. Studying large-scale distributions of matter in these simulations and comparing them to observations usually involves detecting dense clusters of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-25 Aidan Reilly , Nikita Ivkin , Gerard Lemson , Vladimir Braverman , Alexander Szalay

We present GridFF, an efficient method for simulating molecules on rigid substrates, derived from techniques used in protein-ligand docking in biochemistry. By projecting molecule-substrate interactions onto precomputed spatial grids with…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-08-22 Indranil Mal , Milan Kočí , Paolo Nicolini , Prokop Hapala

Context. New-generation cosmological simulations are providing huge amounts of data, whose analysis becomes itself a cutting-edge computational problem. In particular, the identification of gravitationally bound structures, known as halo…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-10 David Vallés-Pérez , Susana Planelles , Vicent Quilis

Federated Learning (FL) enables decentralized model training across multiple clients while optionally preserving data privacy. However, communication efficiency remains a critical bottleneck, particularly for large-scale models. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Arnaud Descours , Léonard Deroose , Jan Ramon

Galaxy groups provide the means for a great diversity of studies that contribute to a better understanding of the structure of the universe on a large scale and allow the properties of galaxies to be linked to those of the host halos.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-22 Facundo Rodriguez , Manuel Merchán

Large language models (LLMs) are popular around the world due to their powerful understanding capabilities. As the core component of LLMs, accelerating Transformer through parallelization has gradually become a hot research topic. Mask…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Wenhao Dai , Haodong Deng , Mengfei Rong , Xinyu Yang , Hongyu Liu , Fangxin Liu , Hailong Yang , Qianwen Cao , Qingxiao Sun

We present jax-cosmo, a library for automatically differentiable cosmological theory calculations. It uses the JAX library, which has created a new coding ecosystem, especially in probabilistic programming. As well as batch acceleration,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-01 Jean-Eric Campagne , François Lanusse , Joe Zuntz , Alexandre Boucaud , Santiago Casas , Minas Karamanis , David Kirkby , Denise Lanzieri , Yin Li , Austin Peel
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