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This work describes Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data analysis algorithms and their implementations, developed to produce a pixelized map of the sky and a corresponding pixel-pixel noise correlation matrix from time ordered data for a…

We apply and compare various Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and other algorithms for automatic morphological classification of galaxies. The ANNs are presented here mathematically, as non-linear extensions of conventional statistical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 O. Lahav , A. Naim , L. Sodre , M. C. Storrie-Lombardi

We investigate the use of neural networks (NNs) for the estimation of hidden model parameters and uncertainty quantification from noisy observational data for inverse parameter estimation problems. We formulate the parameter estimation as a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-17 German Villalobos , Johann Rudi , Andreas Mang

The estimation of modal parameters from a set of noisy measured data is a highly judgmental task, with user expertise playing a significant role in distinguishing between estimated physical and noise modes of a test-piece. Various methods…

Applications · Statistics 2017-09-13 Vahid Yaghoubi , Majid K. Vakilzadeh , Thomas J. S. Abrahamsson

Neural networks are a commonly used approach to replace physical models with computationally cheap surrogates. Parametric uncertainty quantification can be included in training, assuming that an accurate prior distribution of the model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Heikki Haario , Zhi-Song Liu , Martin Simon , Hendrik Weichel

The ability to obtain reliable point estimates of model parameters is of crucial importance in many fields of physics. This is often a difficult task given that the observed data can have a very high number of dimensions. In order to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-15 Janis Fluri , Aurelien Lucchi , Tomasz Kacprzak , Alexandre Refregier , Thomas Hofmann

Deep neural networks represent the gold standard for image classification. However, they usually need large amounts of data to reach superior performance. In this work, we focus on image classification problems with a few labeled examples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Lorenzo Brigato , Luca Iocchi

Machine learning is applied to derive microscopically parameters of the interacting boson model for nuclear spectroscopy. A physics-guided neural network is proposed, which is trained to map the potential energy landscapes that are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-18 Y. Obata , K. Nomura

Deep neural networks have amply demonstrated their prowess but estimating the reliability of their predictions remains challenging. Deep Ensembles are widely considered as being one of the best methods for generating uncertainty estimates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Nikita Durasov , Timur Bagautdinov , Pierre Baque , Pascal Fua

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

We present a novel approach for estimating cosmological parameters, $\Omega_m$, $\sigma_8$, $w_0$, and one derived parameter, $S_8$, from 3D lightcone data of dark matter halos in redshift space covering a sky area of $40^\circ \times…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-03 Se Yeon Hwang , Cristiano G. Sabiu , Inkyu Park , Sungwook E. Hong

We present a new, semi-analytic framework for estimating the level of residuals present in CMB maps derived from multi-frequency Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data and forecasting their impact on cosmological parameters. The data are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-02 Radek Stompor , Josquin Errard , Davide Poletti

Starting from the observation that artificial neural networks are uniquely suited to solving optimisation problems, and most physics problems can be cast as an optimisation task, we introduce a novel way of finding a numerical solution to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-10 Maria Laura Piscopo , Michael Spannowsky , Philip Waite

The angular power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) contains information on virtually all cosmological parameters of interest, including the geometry of the Universe ($\Omega$), the baryon density, the Hubble constant ($h$),…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Gerard Jungman , Marc Kamionkowski , Arthur Kosowsky , David N. Spergel

Although the broad outlines of the appropriate pipeline for cosmological likelihood analysis with CMB data has been known for several years, only recently have we had to contend with the full, large-scale, computationally challenging…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Andrew H. Jaffe , J. R. Bond , P. G. Ferreira , L. E. Knox

One of the main challenges in modeling massive stars to the onset of core collapse is the computational bottleneck of nucleosynthesis during advanced burning stages. The number of isotopes formed requires solving a large set of…

The normal parameters are a non--linear transformation of the cosmological parameters whose likelihood function is very well--approximated by a normal distribution. This transformation serves as an extreme form of data compression allowing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Mike Chu , Manoj Kaplinghat , Lloyd Knox

We introduce a pruning algorithm that provably sparsifies the parameters of a trained model in a way that approximately preserves the model's predictive accuracy. Our algorithm uses a small batch of input points to construct a data-informed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Cenk Baykal , Lucas Liebenwein , Igor Gilitschenski , Dan Feldman , Daniela Rus

Context: New spectroscopic surveys will increase the number of astronomical objects requiring characterization by over tenfold.. Machine learning tools are required to address this data deluge in a fast and accurate fashion. Most machine…

Anisotropies in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) contain a wealth of information about the past history of the universe and the present values of cosmological parameters. I ouline some of the theoretical advances of the last few years.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Scott Dodelson