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most citedGalaxy Clustering Analysis with SimBIG and the Wavelet Scattering Transform

33 citations · 77 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

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…

cs.AI2026★ 1 cited

MIMIC: A Generative Multimodal Foundation Model for Biomolecules

Siavash Golkar, Jake Kovalic, Irina Espejo Morales +28

Biological function emerges from coupled constraints across sequence, structure, regulation, evolution, and cellular context, yet most foundation models in biology are trained with…

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.IM2025

Semantic search for 100M+ galaxy images using AI-generated captions

Nolan Koblischke, Liam Parker, Francois Lanusse +3

Finding scientifically interesting phenomena through slow manual labeling campaigns severely limits our ability to explore the billions of galaxy images produced by telescopes. In…

cs.LG2025

Predicting partially observable dynamical systems via diffusion models with a multiscale inference scheme

Rudy Morel, Francesco Pio Ramunno, Jeff Shen +18

Conditional diffusion models provide a natural framework for probabilistic prediction of dynamical systems and have been successfully applied to fluid dynamics and weather predicti…

astro-ph.IM2025

Universal Spectral Tokenization via Self-Supervised Panchromatic Representation Learning

Jeff Shen, Francois Lanusse, Liam Holden Parker +24

Sequential scientific data span many resolutions and domains, and unifying them into a common representation is a key step toward developing foundation models for the sciences. Ast…

cs.LG2025

Walrus: A Cross-Domain Foundation Model for Continuum Dynamics

Michael McCabe, Payel Mukhopadhyay, Tanya Marwah +22

Foundation models have transformed machine learning for language and vision, but achieving comparable impact in physical simulation remains a challenge. Data heterogeneity and unst…

astro-ph.IM2025

AION-1: Omnimodal Foundation Model for Astronomical Sciences

Liam Parker, Francois Lanusse, Jeff Shen +24

While foundation models have shown promise across a variety of fields, astronomy still lacks a unified framework for joint modeling across its highly diverse data modalities. In th…

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.IM2024

The Multimodal Universe: Enabling Large-Scale Machine Learning with 100TB of Astronomical Scientific Data

The Multimodal Universe Collaboration, Jeroen Audenaert, Micah Bowles +26

We present the MULTIMODAL UNIVERSE, a large-scale multimodal dataset of scientific astronomical data, compiled specifically to facilitate machine learning research. Overall, the MU…

cs.LG2024★ 6 cited

The Well: a Large-Scale Collection of Diverse Physics Simulations for Machine Learning

Ruben Ohana, Michael McCabe, Lucas Meyer +24

Machine learning based surrogate models offer researchers powerful tools for accelerating simulation-based workflows. However, as standard datasets in this space often cover small…

cs.LG2024

Contextual Counting: A Mechanistic Study of Transformers on a Quantitative Task

Siavash Golkar, Alberto Bietti, Mariel Pettee +12

Transformers have revolutionized machine learning across diverse domains, yet understanding their behavior remains crucial, particularly in high-stakes applications. This paper int…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 4 cited

{\sc SimBIG}: Cosmological Constraints using Simulation-Based Inference of Galaxy Clustering with Marked Power Spectra

Elena Massara, ChangHoon Hahn, Michael Eickenberg +7

We present the first CDM cosmological analysis performed on a galaxy survey using marked power spectra. The marked power spectrum is the two-point function of a marked field, wh…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 1 cited

: Cosmological Constraints from the Redshift-Space Galaxy Skew Spectra

Jiamin Hou, Azadeh Moradinezhad Dizgah, ChangHoon Hahn +7

Extracting the non-Gaussian information of the cosmic large-scale structure (LSS) is vital in unlocking the full potential of the rich datasets from the upcoming stage-IV galaxy su…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 1 cited

SimBIG: Field-level Simulation-Based Inference of Galaxy Clustering

Pablo Lemos, Liam Parker, ChangHoon Hahn +8

We present the first simulation-based inference (SBI) of cosmological parameters from field-level analysis of galaxy clustering. Standard galaxy clustering analyses rely on analyzi…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 6 cited

: The First Cosmological Constraints from Non-Gaussian and Non-Linear Galaxy Clustering

ChangHoon Hahn, Pablo Lemos, Liam Parker +8

The 3D distribution of galaxies encodes detailed cosmological information on the expansion and growth history of the Universe. We present the first cosmological constraints that ex…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 1 cited

: The First Cosmological Constraints from the Non-Linear Galaxy Bispectrum

ChangHoon Hahn, Michael Eickenberg, Shirley Ho +7

We present the first cosmological constraints from analyzing higher-order galaxy clustering on non-linear scales. We use , a forward modeling framework…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 33 cited

Galaxy Clustering Analysis with SimBIG and the Wavelet Scattering Transform

Bruno Régaldo-Saint Blancard, ChangHoon Hahn, Shirley Ho +8

The non-Gaussisan spatial distribution of galaxies traces the large-scale structure of the Universe and therefore constitutes a prime observable to constrain cosmological parameter…

cs.LG2023★ 16 cited

Multiple Physics Pretraining for Physical Surrogate Models

Michael McCabe, Bruno Régaldo-Saint Blancard, Liam Holden Parker +11

We introduce multiple physics pretraining (MPP), an autoregressive task-agnostic pretraining approach for physical surrogate modeling of spatiotemporal systems with transformers. I…

stat.ML2023★ 7 cited

xVal: A Continuous Numerical Tokenization for Scientific Language Models

Siavash Golkar, Mariel Pettee, Michael Eickenberg +11

Due in part to their discontinuous and discrete default encodings for numbers, Large Language Models (LLMs) have not yet been commonly used to process numerically-dense scientific…