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astro-ph.IM2026

Deep Learning for Astrophysics: An Open Textbook from the NASA Cosmic Origins AI/ML Science and Technology Interest Group

Yuan-Sen Ting, Digvijay Wadekar, Phill Cargile +21

Recent community assessments identify education as a principal barrier to adopting modern machine learning in astronomy. We present Deep Learning for Astrophysics, a freely availab…

astro-ph.IM2026

Your Outie Is a Wonderful Astronomer: Macrodata Refinement of the Astro-ph ArXiv Feed at Phermon Industries

Yuan-Sen Ting

We present the Severed Floor, a framework for Macrodata Refinement of the daily astro-ph arXiv feed, deployed at Phermon Industries (formerly McPherson Laboratory, The Ohio State U…

astro-ph.IM2026★ 2 cited

What Understanding Means in AI-Laden Astronomy

Yuan-Sen Ting, André Curtis-Trudel, Siyu Yao

Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming astronomical research, yet the scientific community has largely treated this transformation as an engineering challenge rather than…

astro-ph.IM2025

Why Machine Learning Models Systematically Underestimate Extreme Values II: How to Fix It with LatentNN

Yuan-Sen Ting

Attenuation bias -- the systematic underestimation of regression coefficients due to measurement errors in input variables -- affects astronomical data-driven models. For linear re…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 2 cited

Deep Learning in Astrophysics

Yuan-Sen Ting

Deep learning has generated diverse perspectives in astronomy, with ongoing discussions between proponents and skeptics motivating this review. We examine how neural networks compl…

astro-ph.IM2025

Statistical Machine Learning for Astronomy -- A Textbook

Yuan-Sen Ting

This textbook provides a systematic treatment of statistical machine learning for astronomical research through the lens of Bayesian inference, developing a unified framework that…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 14 cited

Why Machine Learning Models Systematically Underestimate Extreme Values

Yuan-Sen Ting

A persistent challenge in astronomical machine learning is a systematic bias where predictions compress the dynamic range of true values-high values are consistently predicted too…