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20202026
most citedDetecting Neutrino Mass by Combining Matter Clustering, Halos, and Voids

87 citations · 358 across the 28 of their papers we have counts for

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29 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Surveying the Universe in 4D: Beating Cosmic Variance with Wide-Field Slitless Spectroscopy from HST, JWST, Euclid, Roman, and Beyond

Andreea Petric, Gaël Noirot, Stacey Alberts +71

We summarize strategies, lessons learned, and future directions from the Space Telescope Science Institute workshop Surveying the Universe in 4D: Beating Cosmic Variance with Wide-…

astro-ph.CO2026

Field-Level Baryon Acoustic Oscillation Reconstruction of the DESI DR1 Luminous Red Galaxies with Linear Field Transformer (LiFT)

Liam Parker, Uroš Seljak, Adrian E. Bayer +2

We present the first application of neural field-level baryon-acoustic oscillation (BAO) reconstruction to real spectroscopic survey data. We develop Linear Field Transformer (LiFT…

astro-ph.CO2026

MujicΛ: Reconstructing Initial Conditions from Incomplete Redshift Surveys with Projected Optimization

Chenze Dong, Benjamin Horowitz, Adrian E. Bayer +1

In this paper, we introduce MujicΛ (Mapping the Universe with Jax-based Initial Condition ReconstrΛction), an optimization-based framework for reconstructing initial conditions fro…

astro-ph.CO2026

Field-Level Inference from Galaxies: BAO Reconstruction

Adrian E. Bayer, Liam Parker, David Valcin +3

Baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) underpin the key cosmological results from modern spectroscopic galaxy surveys, but nonlinear gravitational evolution limits the precision achiev…

astro-ph.CO2025

Impact of Simulation Box Size for Weak Lensing: Replication and Super-Sample Effects

Akira Tokiwa, Adrian E. Bayer, Joaquin Armijo +6

We quantify the bias caused by small simulation box size on weak lensing observables and covariances, considering both replication and super-sample effects for a range of higher-or…

astro-ph.CO2025

Flinch: A Differentiable Framework for Field-Level Inference of Cosmological parameters from curved sky data

Andrea Crespi, Marco Bonici, Arthur Loureiro +6

We present Flinch, a fully differentiable and high-performance framework for field-level inference on angular maps, developed to improve the flexibility and scalability of current…

astro-ph.CO2025

Transfer Learning Beyond the Standard Model

Veena Krishnaraj, Adrian E. Bayer, Christian Kragh Jespersen +1

Machine learning enables powerful cosmological inference but typically requires many high-fidelity simulations covering many cosmological models. Transfer learning offers a way to…

astro-ph.IM2025

jFoF: GPU Cluster Finding with Gradient Propagation

Benjamin Horowitz, Adrian E. Bayer

We present jFoF, a fully GPU-native Friends-of-Friends (FoF) halo finder designed for both high-performance simulation analysis and differentiable modeling. Implemented in JAX, jFo…

cs.LG2025

CosmoBench: A Multiscale, Multiview, Multitask Cosmology Benchmark for Geometric Deep Learning

Ningyuan Huang, Richard Stiskalek, Jun-Young Lee +6

Cosmological simulations provide a wealth of data in the form of point clouds and directed trees. A crucial goal is to extract insights from this data that shed light on the nature…

astro-ph.CO2025

Simulation-Efficient Cosmological Inference with Multi-Fidelity SBI

Leander Thiele, Adrian E. Bayer, Naoya Takeishi

The simulation cost for cosmological simulation-based inference can be decreased by combining simulation sets of varying fidelity. We propose an approach to such multi-fidelity inf…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 3 cited

Field-Level Comparison and Robustness Analysis of Cosmological N-body Simulations

Adrian E. Bayer, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, Sammy Sharief +6

We present the first field-level comparison of cosmological N-body simulations, considering various widely used codes: Abacus, CUBEPM, Enzo, Gadget, Gizmo, PKDGrav, and Ramses.…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 2 cited

Interpreting Cosmological Information from Neural Networks in the Hydrodynamic Universe

Arnab Lahiry, Adrian E. Bayer, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro

What happens when a black box (neural network) meets a black box (simulation of the Universe)? Recent work has shown that convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can infer cosmologica…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 1 cited

Initial Conditions from Galaxies: Machine-Learning Subgrid Correction to Standard Reconstruction

Liam Parker, Adrian E. Bayer, Uros Seljak

We present a hybrid method for reconstructing the primordial density from late-time halos and galaxies. Our approach involves two steps: (1) apply standard Baryon Acoustic Oscillat…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 4 cited

The Power of the Cosmic Web

James Sunseri, Adrian E. Bayer, Jia Liu

We study the cosmological information contained in the cosmic web, categorized as four structure types: nodes, filaments, walls, and voids, using the Quijote simulations and a modi…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 5 cited

Massive s through the CNN lens: interpreting the field-level neutrino mass information in weak lensing

Malika Golshan, Adrian E. Bayer

Modern cosmological surveys probe the Universe deep into the nonlinear regime, where massive neutrinos suppress cosmic structure. Traditional cosmological analyses, which use the 2…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 1 cited

CHARM: Creating Halos with Auto-Regressive Multi-stage networks

Shivam Pandey, Chirag Modi, Benjamin D. Wandelt +7

To maximize the amount of information extracted from cosmological datasets, simulations that accurately represent these observations are necessary. However, traditional simulations…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 10 cited

Simulation-Based Inference Benchmark for Weak Lensing Cosmology

Justine Zeghal, Denise Lanzieri, François Lanusse +5

Standard cosmological analysis, which relies on two-point statistics, fails to extract the full information of the data. This limits our ability to constrain with precision cosmolo…

astro-ph.GA2024

Periodicity significance testing with null-signal templates: reassessment of PTF's SMBH binary candidates

Jakob Robnik, Adrian E. Bayer, Maria Charisi +3

Periodograms are widely employed for identifying periodicity in time series data, yet they often struggle to accurately quantify the statistical significance of detected periodic s…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 8 cited

The HalfDome Multi-Survey Cosmological Simulations: N-body Simulations

Adrian E. Bayer, Yici Zhong, Zack Li +3

Upcoming cosmological surveys have the potential to reach groundbreaking discoveries on multiple fronts, including the neutrino mass, dark energy, and inflation. Most of the key sc…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 7 cited

Significance of void shape: Neutrino mass from Voronoi void halos?

Adrian E. Bayer, Jia Liu, Christina D. Kreisch +1

Massive neutrinos suppress the growth of cosmic structure on nonlinear scales, motivating the use of information beyond the power spectrum to tighten constraints on the neutrino ma…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 9 cited

Field-Level Inference with Microcanonical Langevin Monte Carlo

Adrian E. Bayer, Uros Seljak, Chirag Modi

Field-level inference provides a means to optimally extract information from upcoming cosmological surveys, but requires efficient sampling of a high-dimensional parameter space. T…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 23 cited

Joint velocity and density reconstruction of the Universe with nonlinear differentiable forward modeling

Adrian E. Bayer, Chirag Modi, Simone Ferraro

Reconstructing the initial conditions of the Universe from late-time observations has the potential to optimally extract cosmological information. Due to the high dimensionality of…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 16 cited

Super-sample covariance of the power spectrum, bispectrum, halos, voids, and their cross covariances

Adrian E. Bayer, Jia Liu, Ryo Terasawa +3

We study the effect of super-sample covariance (SSC) on the power spectrum and higher-order statistics: bispectrum, halo mass function, and void size function. We also investigate…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 25 cited

The DESI -body Simulation Project -- II. Suppressing sample variance with fast simulations

Zhejie Ding, Chia-Hsun Chuang, Yu Yu +19

Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will construct a large and precise three-dimensional map of our Universe. The survey effective volume reaches $\sim20\Gpchcube$. It is a…