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Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-19 Guillermo Franco Abellán , Noemi Anau Montel , Oleg Savchenko , Christoph Weniger

Bayesian inference methods such as Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) typically require repeated computations of the likelihood function, but in some scenarios this is infeasible and alternative methods are needed. Simulation-based inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Linnea M Wolniewicz , Peter Sadowski , Claudio Corti

Hydrodynamical cosmological simulations are a powerful tool for accurately predicting the properties of the intergalactic medium (IGM) and for producing mock skies that can be compared against observational data. However, the need to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-08 Cooper Jacobus , Peter Harrington , Zarija Lukić

We propose a light-weight deep convolutional neural network (CNN) to estimate the cosmological parameters from simulated 3-dimensional dark matter distributions with high accuracy. The training set is based on 465 realizations of a cubic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-11 Shuyang Pan , Miaoxin Liu , Jaime Forero-Romero , Cristiano G. Sabiu , Zhigang Li , Haitao Miao , Xiao-Dong Li

Field-level inference has emerged as a promising framework to fully harness the cosmological information encoded in next-generation galaxy surveys. It involves performing Bayesian inference to jointly estimate the cosmological parameters…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-19 Hugo Simon , François Lanusse , Arnaud de Mattia

An ingeniously designed autoencoder (PrimeNet) using simulated observations of future generation ECHO satellite mission recovers CMB B mode map, angular spectrum for multipoles $\ell \lesssim 9$ and tensor to scalar ratio $r$ {\it limited…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-30 Srikanta Pal , Sarvesh Kumar Yadav , Rajib Saha , Tarun Souradeep

Performing simulations with a realistic biophysical auditory nerve fiber model can be very time consuming, due to the complex nature of the calculations involved. Here, a surrogate (approximate) model of such an auditory nerve fiber model…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-11-15 Jacob de Nobel , Anna V. Kononova , Jeroen Briaire , Johan Frijns , Thomas Bäck

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have recently been demonstrated on synthetic data to improve upon the precision of cosmological inference. In particular they have the potential to yield more precise cosmological constraints from weak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-17 Janis Fluri , Tomasz Kacprzak , Aurelien Lucchi , Alexandre Refregier , Adam Amara , Thomas Hofmann , Aurel Schneider

The standard cosmological model with cold dark matter posits a hierarchical formation of structures. We introduce topological neural networks (TNNs), implemented as message-passing neural networks on higher-order structures, to effectively…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-06 Jun-Young Lee , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro

Electromagnetic (EM) simulation plays a crucial role in analyzing and designing devices with sub-wavelength scale structures such as solar cells, semiconductor devices, image sensors, future displays and integrated photonic devices.…

We present methods for emulating the matter power spectrum by combining information from cosmological $N$-body simulations at different resolutions. An emulator allows estimation of simulation output by interpolating across the parameter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-17 Ming-Feng Ho , Simeon Bird , Christian R. Shelton

We train neural networks to quickly generate redshift-space galaxy power spectrum covariances from a given parameter set (cosmology and galaxy bias). This covariance emulator utilizes a combination of traditional fully-connected network…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-02 Joseph Adamo , Hung-Jin Huang , Tim Eifler

In this work, we propose using the mixture density network (MDN) to estimate cosmological parameters. We test the MDN method by constraining parameters of the $\Lambda$CDM and $w$CDM models using Type Ia supernovae and the power spectra of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-05 Guo-Jian Wang , Cheng Cheng , Yin-Zhe Ma , Jun-Qing Xia

The study of astronomical phenomena through ground-based observations is always challenged by the distorting effects of Earth's atmosphere. Traditional methods of post-facto image correction, essential for correcting these distortions,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-14 A. Asensio Ramos

A novel convolution neural network model, abbreviated NL-CNN is proposed, where nonlinear convolution is emulated in a cascade of convolution + nonlinearity layers. The code for its implementation and some trained models are made publicly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Radu Dogaru , Ioana Dogaru

A new maximum approximate likelihood (ML) estimation algorithm for the mixture of Kent distribution is proposed. The new algorithm is constructed via the BSLM (block successive lower-bound maximization) framework and incorporates manifold…

Computation · Statistics 2017-09-15 Hien D. Nguyen

Understanding why specific items are recommended to users can significantly increase their trust and satisfaction in the system. While neural recommenders have become the state-of-the-art in recent years, the complexity of deep models still…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Khanh Hiep Tran , Azin Ghazimatin , Rishiraj Saha Roy

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

Weak gravitational lensing maps compactly encode the evolution of cosmic large-scale structure and are a key tool for cosmological analyses. Performing inference directly at the map level allows flexible choices of statistics and can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-25 Guangjian Li , Tomasz Kacprzak