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New methods model gamma-ray data to better understand Galactic emissions.
Deep learning techniques, namely convolutional neural networks (CNN), have previously been adapted to select gamma-ray events in the TAIGA experiment, having achieved a good quality of selection as compared with the conventional Hillas approach. Another important task for the TAIGA data analysis was also solved with CN…
Modern detectors of cosmic gamma-rays are a special type of imaging telescopes (air Cherenkov telescopes) supplied with cameras with a relatively large number of photomultiplier-based pixels. For example, the camera of the TAIGA-IACT telescope has 560 pixels of hexagonal structure. Images in such cameras can be analyse…
A new algorithm ThreeSieves maximizes submodular functions efficiently in streaming data.
The paper confirms two groups of gamma-ray bursts using a new nonparametric metric.
Develops a hybrid MtFA approach for high-dimensional data clustering.
Quantum machine learning improves pulsar classification in radio astronomy.
New algorithm clusters GRBs into two groups: short and long duration.
We present the first public release of our generic neural network training algorithm, called SkyNet. This efficient and robust machine learning tool is able to train large and deep feed-forward neural networks, including autoencoders, for use in a wide range of supervised and unsupervised learning applications, such as…
Two classes of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), short and long, have been determined without any doubts, and are usually ascribed to different progenitors, yet these classes overlap for a variety of descriptive parameters. A subsample of 46 long and 22 short GRBs with estimated Hurst Exponents (HEs), complemented by mi…
Astrophysics and cosmology are rich with data. The advent of wide-area digital cameras on large aperture telescopes has led to ever more ambitious surveys of the sky. Data volumes of entire surveys a decade ago can now be acquired in a single night and real-time analysis is often desired. Thus, modern astronomy require…
Nonparametric empirical Bayes denoising on Riemannian manifolds
Developing a visual platform for faster astronomical source cataloging.
A textbook on statistical machine learning for astronomy.
LSVM with EBT reduces quasar detection errors by 10x.
A flexible machine learning model infers the morphology of the Galactic Center Excess.
Efficiently clusters incomplete data without imputation or full EM, faster and more accurate.
Young isolated neutron stars (INS) most commonly manifest themselves as rotationally powered pulsars (RPPs) which involve conventional radio pulsars as well as gamma-ray pulsars (GRPs) and rotating radio transients (RRATs). Some other young INS families manifest themselves as anomalous X-ray pulsars (AXPs) and soft gam…
Paper presents a workflow for reliable unsupervised learning in science.
The -means algorithm is extended to allow for partitioning of skewed groups. Our algorithm is called TiK-Means and contributes a -means type algorithm that assigns observations to groups while estimating their skewness-transformation parameters. The resulting groups and transformation reveal general-structured cl…
Novel method reduces costly model evaluations in inference problems.
Machine learning models classify celestial objects like pulsars and black holes.
Astronomy of the 21st century increasingly finds itself with extreme quantities of data. This growth in data is ripe for modern technologies such as deep image processing, which has the potential to allow astronomers to automatically identify, classify, segment and deblend various astronomical objects. In this paper, w…
Mathematical model predicts international trade and global economy dynamics.
We describe a method for removing the effect of confounders in order to reconstruct a latent quantity of interest. The method, referred to as half-sibling regression, is inspired by recent work in causal inference using additive noise models. We provide a theoretical justification and illustrate the potential of the me…
CNNs improve transient detection in DES-SN images.
Improved flow-based inference speeds up and boosts accuracy for complex simulations.
Nested sampling is a powerful technique for exploring high-likelihood regions, but its theoretical derivation is complex and involves approximations.
This article develops a statistical test for the null hypothesis of strict stationarity of a discrete time stochastic process in the frequency domain. When the null hypothesis is true, the second order cumulant spectrum is zero at all the discrete Fourier frequency pairs in the principal domain. The test uses a window …
The increasing amount of data in astronomy provides great challenges for machine learning research. Previously, supervised learning methods achieved satisfactory recognition accuracy for the star-galaxy classification task, based on manually labeled data set. In this work, we propose a novel unsupervised approach for t…
Eryn is a versatile MCMC package for Bayesian inference.
Detects anomalies in astronomical time series data.
Evaluation of hydrocarbon reservoir requires classification of petrophysical properties from available dataset. However, characterization of reservoir attributes is difficult due to the nonlinear and heterogeneous nature of the subsurface physical properties. In this context, present study proposes a generalized one cl…
Non-negative matrix factorization is a problem of dimensionality reduction and source separation of data that has been widely used in many fields since it was studied in depth in 1999 by Lee and Seung, including in compression of data, document clustering, processing of audio spectrograms and astronomy. In this work we…
Simulation-based inference speeds up gravitational wave data analysis.
Performance of nuclear threat detection systems based on gamma-ray spectrometry often strongly depends on the ability to identify the part of measured signal that can be attributed to background radiation. We have successfully applied a method based on Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to obtain a compact null-space m…
There is a growing demand for nonparametric conditional density estimators (CDEs) in fields such as astronomy and economics. In astronomy, for example, one can dramatically improve estimates of the parameters that dictate the evolution of the Universe by working with full conditional densities instead of regression (i.…
We present the first fully variational Bayesian inference scheme for continuous Gaussian-process-modulated Poisson processes. Such point processes are used in a variety of domains, including neuroscience, geo-statistics and astronomy, but their use is hindered by the computational cost of existing inference schemes. Ou…
Detecting stellar clusters have always been an important research problem in Astronomy. Although images do not convey very detailed information in detecting stellar density enhancements, we attempt to understand if new machine learning techniques can reveal patterns that would assist in drawing better inferences from t…
Deep Learning has revolutionized vision via convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and natural language processing via recurrent neural networks (RNNs). However, success stories of Deep Learning with standard feed-forward neural networks (FNNs) are rare. FNNs that perform well are typically shallow and, therefore cannot …
Estimating the level set of a signal from measurements is a task that arises in a variety of fields, including medical imaging, astronomy, and digital elevation mapping. Motivated by scenarios where accurate and complete measurements of the signal may not available, we examine here a simple procedure for estimating the…
Commonly-used clustering algorithms usually find ellipsoidal, spherical or other regular-structured clusters, but are more challenged when the underlying groups lack formal structure or definition. Syncytial clustering is the name that we introduce for methods that merge groups obtained from standard clustering algorit…
State of the art methods in astronomical image reconstruction rely on the resolution of a regularized or constrained optimization problem. Solving this problem can be computationally intensive and usually leads to a quadratic or at least superlinear complexity w.r.t. the number of pixels in the image. We investigate in…
Delisle's projection explained by Euler in 18th century.
Valid inference from data and predictions.
An active learner chooses which data points to label to minimize cost and error in streaming data.
In the current context of data explosion, online techniques that do not require storing all data in memory are indispensable to routinely perform tasks like principal component analysis (PCA). Recursive algorithms that update the PCA with each new observation have been studied in various fields of research and found wi…
BLISS detects and separates astronomical sources quickly and accurately.