activity
20242026
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6 papers

astro-ph.EP2026

aRieL - Reinforcement Learning for the Ariel Space Telescope Scheduling

James Kostas Ray, Kai Hou Yip, Alexandra Thompson +2

The Ariel mission will conduct a population level survey of hundreds of exoplanet atmospheres, requiring observations to be scheduled across a large and diverse catalogue of potent…

cs.LG2026

Operational Range Bounding in Spectroscopy: A Safety Cage Framework for Machine Learning Models

Nikki Grens, Luís F. Simões, Kai Hou Yip +1

Ensuring the reliability of black-box machine learning models in safety-critical space missions remains a significant challenge, particularly when ground-truth is unavailable for v…

cs.LG2026

Traceable Spectral Inference via Influence Functions: Efficient Data Attribution and Error Proxies for the Ariel Mission

Nikki Grens, Luís F. Simões, Kai Hou Yip +1

Interpretability is critical for machine learning models deployed in scientific space missions such as ESA's Ariel, where ground truth is unavailable during operations and physical…

physics.comp-ph2025

Adaptive Online Emulation for Accelerating Complex Physical Simulations

Tara P. A. Tahseen, Nikolaos Nikolaou, Luís F. Simões +3

Complex physical simulations often require trade-offs between model fidelity and computational feasibility. We introduce Adaptive Online Emulation (AOE), which dynamically learns n…

astro-ph.EP2025

Extreme Learning Machines for Exoplanet Simulations: A Faster, Lightweight Alternative to Deep Learning

Tara P. A. Tahseen, Luís F. Simões, Kai Hou Yip +3

Increasing resolution and coverage of astrophysical and climate data necessitates increasingly sophisticated models, often pushing the limits of computational feasibility. While em…

cs.LG2024

Operational range bounding of spectroscopy models with anomaly detection

Luís F. Simões, Pierluigi Casale, Marília Felismino +4

Safe operation of machine learning models requires architectures that explicitly delimit their operational ranges. We evaluate the ability of anomaly detection algorithms to provid…