Astronomia ex machina: a history, primer and outlook on neural networks in astronomy

MJ Smith, JE Geach - Royal Society Open Science, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
In this review, we explore the historical development and future prospects of artificial
intelligence (AI) and deep learning in astronomy. We trace the evolution of connectionism in …

Galaxy Zoo DESI: Detailed morphology measurements for 8.7 M galaxies in the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys

M Walmsley, T Géron, S Kruk… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We present detailed morphology measurements for 8.67 million galaxies in the DESI Legacy
Imaging Surveys (DECaLS, MzLS, and BASS, plus DES). These are automated …

DeepAstroUDA: semi-supervised universal domain adaptation for cross-survey galaxy morphology classification and anomaly detection

A Ćiprijanović, A Lewis, K Pedro… - Machine Learning …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Artificial intelligence methods show great promise in increasing the quality and speed of
work with large astronomical datasets, but the high complexity of these methods leads to the …

Radio galaxy zoo: towards building the first multipurpose foundation model for radio astronomy with self-supervised learning

IV Slijepcevic, AMM Scaife, M Walmsley… - RAS Techniques …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
In this work, we apply self-supervised learning with instance differentiation to learn a robust,
multipurpose representation for image analysis of resolved extragalactic continuum images …

[PDF][PDF] Zoobot: Adaptable Deep Learning Models for GalaxyMorphology

M Walmsley, C Allen, B Aussel, M Bowles… - Journal of Open Source …, 2023 - par.nsf.gov
Zoobot is a Python package for measuring the detailed appearance of galaxies in telescope
images using deep learning. Zoobot is aimed at astronomers who want to solve a galaxy …

Astroclip: Cross-modal pre-training for astronomical foundation models

F Lanusse, L Parker, S Golkar, M Cranmer… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
We present AstroCLIP, a strategy to facilitate the construction of astronomical foundation
models that bridge the gap between diverse observational modalities. We demonstrate that …

Masked particle modeling on sets: Towards self-supervised high energy physics foundation models

L Heinrich, M Kagan, S Klein, M Leigh, T Golling… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We propose\textit {masked particle modeling}(MPM) as a self-supervised method for
learning generic, transferable, and reusable representations on unordered sets of inputs for …

CzSL: Learning from citizen science, experts, and unlabelled data in astronomical image classification

M Jiménez, EJ Alfaro, M Torres Torres… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Citizen science is gaining popularity as a valuable tool for labelling large collections of
astronomical images by the general public. This is often achieved at the cost of poorer …

Galaxy merger challenge: A comparison study between machine learning-based detection methods

B Margalef-Bentabol, L Wang, A La Marca… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - aanda.org
Aims. Various galaxy merger detection methods have been applied to diverse datasets.
However, it is difficult to understand how they compare. Our aim is to benchmark the relative …

Re-Simulation-based Self-Supervised Learning for Pre-Training Foundation Models

P Harris, M Kagan, J Krupa, B Maier… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) is at the core of training modern large machine learning
models, providing a scheme for learning powerful representations that can be used in a …