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Publications (39)

astro-ph.CO2024

Inpainting Galaxy Counts onto N-Body Simulations over Multiple Cosmologies and Astrophysics

Antoine Bourdin, Ronan Legin, Matthew Ho +3

Cosmological hydrodynamical simulations, while the current state-of-the art methodology for generating theoretical predictions for the large scale structures of the Universe, are a…

quant-ph2024

Quantum-inspired identification of complex cellular automata

Matthew Ho, Andri Pradana, Thomas J. Elliott +2

Elementary cellular automata (ECA) present iconic examples of complex systems. Though described only by one-dimensional strings of binary cells evolving according to nearest-neighb…

astro-ph.GA2026

Introducing sapphire: Towards Hybrid Physics-Informed, Data-Driven Modeling of Galaxy Formation

Viraj Pandya, Greg L. Bryan, T. Lucas Makinen +18

Semi-analytic models (SAMs) have been treating galaxy populations as dynamical systems for years, but their evolution equations remain poorly constrained. We introduce…

astro-ph.HE2026

Simulation-Based Inference for Direction Reconstruction of Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays with Radio Arrays

Oscar Macias, Zachary Mason, Matthew Ho +3

Ultra-high-energy cosmic-ray (UHECR) observatories require unbiased direction reconstruction to enable multi-messenger astronomy with sparse, nanosecond-scale radio pulses. Explici…

astro-ph.CO2026

Cluster Mass Inference from Galaxy Kinematics

Bonny Y. Wang, Leander Thiele, Matthew Ho

The masses of galaxy clusters carry cosmological and astrophysical information. We develop a simulation-based inference pipeline to infer cluster masses from full projected phase-s…

astro-ph.IM2026

Don't Cut Corners: How Training Outside the Prior Makes Simulation-Based Inference More Robust

Chaipat Tirapongprasert, Matthew Ho

Large astrophysical simulation campaigns often generate training data by sampling parameters across a Uniform prior box. Due to the proposal's sharp edge, neural posterior estimato…