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Diffusion models have been used in cosmological applications as a generative model for fast simulations and to reconstruct underlying cosmological fields or astrophysical images from noisy data. These two tasks are often treated as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-07 Supranta S. Boruah , Michael Jacob , Bhuvnesh Jain

Weak gravitational lensing is responsible for the shearing and magnification of the images of high-redshift sources due to the presence of intervening matter. The distortions are due to fluctuations in the gravitational potential, and are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 D. Munshi , P. Valageas , L. Van Waerbeke , A. Heavens

Gravitational weak lensing maps the location of (dark) matter at all scales. The lens-induced distortion field traces gravity fields and can be used to reconstruct the mass distribution in galaxies, groups, clusters of galaxies or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. Mellier , L. van Waerbeke

Recent advances in Diffusion Models (DMs) have led to significant progress in visual synthesis and editing tasks, establishing them as a strong competitor to Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). However, the latent space of DMs is not as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Theodoros Kouzelis , Manos Plitsis , Mihalis A. Nicolaou , Yannis Panagakis

Weak Lensing (WL) surveys are reaching unprecedented depths, enabling the investigation of very small angular scales. At these scales, nonlinear gravitational effects lead to higher-order correlations making the matter distribution highly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-01 Divij Sharma , Biwei Dai , Uros Seljak

Cosmic shear is a primary cosmological probe for several present and upcoming surveys investigating dark matter and dark energy, such as Euclid or WFIRST. The probe requires an extremely accurate measurement of the shapes of millions of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-04 Malte Tewes , Thibault Kuntzer , Reiko Nakajima , Frédéric Courbin , Hendrik Hildebrandt , Tim Schrabback

We derive a minimalist but powerful deterministic denoising-diffusion model. While denoising diffusion has shown great success in many domains, its underlying theory remains largely inaccessible to non-expert users. Indeed, an understanding…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Eric Heitz , Laurent Belcour , Thomas Chambon

Diffusion Models (DMs) are powerful generative models that add Gaussian noise to the data and learn to remove it. We wanted to determine which noise distribution (Gaussian or non-Gaussian) led to better generated data in DMs. Since DMs do…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Alexia Jolicoeur-Martineau , Kilian Fatras , Ke Li , Tal Kachman

High-resolution mapping of cosmic mass distribution is essential for a variety of astrophysical applications including understanding cosmic structure formation, and galaxy formation and evolution. However dark matter is not directly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-19 Supranta S. Boruah , Michael Jacob , Bhuvnesh Jain , Riya Maiya , Raghav Venkataramanan

We investigate the potential of weak gravitational lensing maps to differentiate between distinct cosmological models, considering cosmic variance due to a limited map extension and the presence of noise. We introduce a measure of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Antonio Guimarães

We develop an algorithm for the reconstruction of the two-dimensional mass distribution of a gravitational lens from the observable distortion of background galaxies. From the measured reduced shear, the lens mapping is obtained, from which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Tarun Deep Saini , Somak Raychaudhury

Denoising diffusion models have recently shown impressive results in generative tasks. By learning powerful priors from huge collections of training images, such models are able to gradually modify complete noise to a clean natural image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Naama Pearl , Yaron Brodsky , Dana Berman , Assaf Zomet , Alex Rav Acha , Daniel Cohen-Or , Dani Lischinski

Combining redshift and galaxy shape information offers new exciting ways of exploiting the gravitational lensing effect for studying the large scales of the cosmos. One application is the three-dimensional reconstruction of the matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Patrick Simon , Andy Taylor , Jan Hartlap

Diffusion models generate new samples by progressively decreasing the noise from the initially provided random distribution. This inference procedure generally utilizes a trained neural network numerous times to obtain the final output,…

Lensed gravitational waves (GWs) provide a new window into the study of dark matter substructures, yet the faint interference signatures they produce are buried in detector noise. To address this challenge, we develop a deep learning…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-25 Mengfei Sun , Jie Wu , Jin Li , Nan Yang , Xianghe Ma , Borui Wang , Minghui Zhang , Yuanhong Zhong

Next-generation ground-based gravitational-wave (GW) detectors are expected to detect millions of binary black hole mergers during their operation period. A small fraction ($\sim 0.1 - 1\%$) of them will be strongly lensed by intervening…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-13 Souvik Jana , Shasvath J. Kapadia , Tejaswi Venumadhav , Surhud More , Parameswaran Ajith

Generative models have recently revolutionized image generation tasks across diverse domains, including galaxy image synthesis. This study investigates the statistical learning and consistency of three generative models: light-weight-gan (a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-13 Jean-Eric Campagne

It is widely accepted that medical imaging systems should be objectively assessed via task-based image quality (IQ) measures that ideally account for all sources of randomness in the measured image data, including the variation in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Xichen Xu , Wentao Chen , Weimin Zhou

Warm Dark Matter (WDM) models offer an attractive alternative to the current Cold Dark Matter (CDM) cosmological model. We present a novel method to differentiate between WDM and CDM cosmologies, namely using weak lensing; this provides a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 Hareth S. Mahdi , Pascal J. Elahi , Geraint F. Lewis , Chris Power

Luminous tracers have been used extensively to map the large-scale matter distribution in the Universe. Similarly the dynamics of stars or galaxies can be used to estimate masses of galaxies and clusters of galaxies. However, assumptions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-25 H. Hoekstra