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We use the emulation framework CosmoPower to construct and publicly release neural network emulators of cosmological observables, including the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature and polarization power spectra, matter power…

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In this paper, we present the first study that compares different models of Bayesian Neural Networks (BNNs) to predict the posterior distribution of the cosmological parameters directly from the Cosmic Microwave Background temperature and…

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We derive constraints on a coupled quintessence model with pure momentum exchange from the public $\sim$1000 deg$^2$ cosmic shear measurements from the Kilo-Degree Survey and the $\it{Planck}$ 2018 Cosmic Microwave Background data. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-16 A. Spurio Mancini , A. Pourtsidou

We propose a lightweight deep convolutional neural network (lCNN) to estimate cosmological parameters from simulated three-dimensional dark matter (DM) halo distributions and associated statistics. The training dataset comprises 2000…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-20 Zhiwei Min , Xu Xiao , Jiacheng Ding , Liang Xiao , Jie Jiang , Donglin Wu , Qiufan Lin , Yang Wang , Shuai Liu , Zhixin Chen , Xiangru Li , Jinqu Zhang , Le Zhang , Xiao-Dong Li

We present a fast Markov Chain Monte-Carlo exploration of cosmological parameter space. We perform a joint analysis of results from recent CMB experiments and provide parameter constraints, including sigma_8, from the CMB independent of…

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We apply the Karhunen-Lo\'eve methods to cosmic microwave background (CMB) data sets, and show that we can recover the input cosmology and obtain the marginalized likelihoods in $\Lambda$ cold dark matter cosmologies in under a minute, much…

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We present a neural net algorithm for parameter estimation in the context of large cosmological data sets. Cosmological data sets present a particular challenge to pattern-recognition algorithms since the input patterns (galaxy redshift…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nicholas G. Phillips , A. Kogut

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

Deep learning has emerged as a transformative methodology in modern cosmology, providing powerful tools to extract meaningful physical information from complex astronomical datasets. This paper implements a novel Bayesian graph deep…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-28 Juan Alejandro Pinto Castro , Héctor J. Hortúa , Jorge Enrique García-Farieta , Roger Anderson Hurtado

What do the data, as distinguished from cosmological models, tell us about cosmological parameters that determined the model of the universe? In this paper, we address this question in the context of the WMAP angular power spectra for the…

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We implement support for a cosmological parameter estimation algorithm as proposed by Racine et al. (2016) in Commander, and quantify its computational efficiency and cost. For a semi-realistic simulation similar to Planck LFI 70 GHz, we…

Einstein-Boltzmann Solvers (EBSs) are run on a massive scale by the cosmology community when fitting cosmological models to data. We present a new concept for speeding up such codes with neural networks. The originality of our approach…

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We present and apply Gaussbock, a new embarrassingly parallel iterative algorithm for cosmological parameter estimation designed for an era of cheap parallel computing resources. Gaussbock uses Bayesian nonparametrics and truncated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-19 Ben Moews , Joe Zuntz

We develop two methods for estimating the power spectrum, C_l, of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) from data and apply them to the COBE/DMR and Saskatoon datasets. One method involves a direct evaluation of the likelihood function, and…

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We present a comprehensive neural architecture, the PUREPath, which leverages a nested Probabilistic multi-modal U- Net framework, augmented by the inclusion of probabilistic ResNet blocks in the Expanding Pathway of the decoders, to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-01 Vipin Sudevan , Pisin Chen

Next-generation cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments will have lower noise and therefore increased sensitivity, enabling improved constraints on fundamental physics parameters such as the sum of neutrino masses and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-16 João Caldeira , W. L. Kimmy Wu , Brian Nord , Camille Avestruz , Shubhendu Trivedi , Kyle T. Story

Upcoming cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing measurements and tomographic galaxy surveys are expected to provide us with high-precision data sets in the coming years, thus paving the way for fruitful cross-correlation analyses. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-27 Priyesh Chakraborty , Shu-Fan Chen , Cora Dvorkin

Weak lensing surveys are often summarized by constraints on the derived parameter ${S_8\equiv\sigma_8\sqrt{\Omega_{\rm m}/0.3}}$, obscuring the rich scale and redshift information encoded in the data, and limiting our ability to identify…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-08 Cyrille Doux , Tanvi Karwal

We introduce an emulator approach to predict the non-linear matter power spectrum for broad classes of beyond-$\Lambda$CDM cosmologies, using only a suite of $\Lambda$CDM $N$-body simulations. By including a range of suitably modified…

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