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Understanding the nature of dark matter in the Universe is an important goal of modern cosmology. A key method for probing this distribution is via weak gravitational lensing mass-mapping - a challenging ill-posed inverse problem where one…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-13 Jessica J. Whitney , Tobías I. Liaudat , Matthew A. Price , Matthijs Mars , Jason D. McEwen

We propose a new generative model of projected cosmic mass density maps inferred from weak gravitational lensing observations of distant galaxies (weak lensing mass maps). We construct the model based on a neural style transfer so that it…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-24 Masato Shirasaki , Shiro Ikeda

Weak gravitational lensing mass maps play a crucial role in understanding the evolution of structures in the universe and our ability to constrain cosmological models. The prediction of these mass maps is based on expensive N-body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-07 Nathanaël Perraudin , Sandro Marcon , Aurelien Lucchi , Tomasz Kacprzak

Context: Weak gravitational lensing is a key cosmological probe for current and future large-scale surveys. While power spectra are commonly used for analyses, they fail to capture non-Gaussian information from nonlinear structure…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-17 Vilasini Tinnaneri Sreekanth , Jean-Luc Starck , Sandrine Codis

Inferring model parameters from experimental data is a grand challenge in many sciences, including cosmology. This often relies critically on high fidelity numerical simulations, which are prohibitively computationally expensive. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-23 Mustafa Mustafa , Deborah Bard , Wahid Bhimji , Zarija Lukić , Rami Al-Rfou , Jan M. Kratochvil

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have been recently applied as a novel emulation technique for large scale structure simulations. Recent results show that GANs can be used as a fast, efficient and computationally cheap emulator for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-06 Andrius Tamosiunas , Hans A. Winther , Kazuya Koyama , David J. Bacon , Robert C. Nichol , Ben Mawdsley

Weak gravitational lensing is a powerful probe of the large-scale cosmic matter distribution. Wide-field galaxy surveys allow us to generate the so-called weak lensing maps, but actual observations suffer from noise due to imperfect…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-21 Masato Shirasaki , Naoki Yoshida , Shiro Ikeda

Understanding the large-scale structure of the Universe and unravelling the mysteries of dark matter are fundamental challenges in contemporary cosmology. Reconstruction of the cosmological matter distribution from lensing observables,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-25 Jessica Whitney , Tobías Liaudat , Matt Price , Matthijs Mars , Jason D. McEwen

Full ray-tracing maps of gravitational lensing, constructed from N-Body simulations, represent a fundamental tool to interpret present and future weak lensing data. However the limitation of computational resources and storage capabilities…

Many promising applications of supervised machine learning face hurdles in the acquisition of labeled data in sufficient quantity and quality, creating an expensive bottleneck. To overcome such limitations, techniques that do not depend on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Benedikt Boecking , Nicholas Roberts , Willie Neiswanger , Stefano Ermon , Frederic Sala , Artur Dubrawski

We explore the ability of normalizing flow (NF) generative models to reproduce weak-lensing summary statistics when trained on a set of cosmological simulations. Our analysis focuses on how accurately NF models recover the mean, standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-29 Joaquin Armijo , Leander Thiele , Jia Liu

Generative models have achieved remarkable progress with the emergence of flow matching (FM). It has demonstrated strong generative capabilities and attracted significant attention as a simulation-free flow-based framework capable of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Huynh Trinh Ngoc , Hoang Anh Nguyen Kim , Toan Nguyen Hai , Long Tran Quoc

To take full advantage of the unprecedented power of upcoming weak lensing surveys, understanding the noise, such as cosmic variance and geometry/mask effects, is as important as understanding the signal itself. Accurately quantifying the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-26 Yu Yu , Pengjie Zhang , Yipeng Jing

Nonlinear cosmological fields like galaxy density and lensing convergence can be approximately related to Gaussian fields via analytic point transforms. The lognormal transform (LN) has been widely used and is a simple example of a function…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-08 Kunhao Zhong , Gary Bernstein , Supranta S. Boruah , Bhuvnesh Jain , Sanjit Kobla

Programmatic Weak Supervision (PWS) and generative models serve as crucial tools that enable researchers to maximize the utility of existing datasets without resorting to laborious data gathering and manual annotation processes. PWS uses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Kumar Shubham , Pranav Sastry , Prathosh AP

Flow matching has recently emerged as a promising alternative to diffusion-based generative models, offering faster sampling and simpler training by learning continuous flows governed by ordinary differential equations. Despite growing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Mudit Gaur , Prashant Trivedi , Shuchin Aeron , Amrit Singh Bedi , George K. Atia , Vaneet Aggarwal

Accurate emulation of multi-scale physical systems governed by PDEs demands models that remain stable over long autoregressive rollouts while preserving fine-scale structures. Deterministic emulators produce overly-smoothed predictions,…

A generative modeling framework is proposed that combines diffusion models and manifold learning to efficiently sample data densities on manifolds. The approach utilizes Diffusion Maps to uncover possible low-dimensional underlying (latent)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Dimitris G. Giovanis , Ellis Crabtree , Roger G. Ghanem , Ioannis G. Kevrekidis

We investigate the possibility of learning the representations of cosmological multifield dataset from the CAMELS project. We train a very deep variational encoder on images which comprise three channels, namely gas density (Mgas), neutral…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-03 Sambatra Andrianomena , Sultan Hassan

We propose a deep-learning approach based on generative adversarial networks (GANs) to reduce noise in weak lensing mass maps under realistic conditions. We apply image-to-image translation using conditional GANs to the mass map obtained…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-30 Masato Shirasaki , Kana Moriwaki , Taira Oogi , Naoki Yoshida , Shiro Ikeda , Takahiro Nishimichi
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