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most citedSquare Kilometre Array Science Data Challenge 3a: foreground removal for an EoR experiment

9 citations · 17 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

Machine Learning and the SKA for Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Reionization

Anshuman Acharya, Michele Bianco, Daniela Breitman +18

When operational, the SKA will generate unprecedented amounts of data and provide exquisite sensitivity for 21 cm tomography of Cosmic Dawn (CD) and the Epoch of Reionization (EoR)…

cs.LG2026

Can Microcanonical Langevin Dynamics Leverage Mini-Batch Gradient Noise?

Emanuel Sommer, Kangning Diao, Jakob Robnik +2

Scaling inference methods such as Markov chain Monte Carlo to high-dimensional models remains a central challenge in Bayesian deep learning. A promising recent proposal, microcanon…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 2 cited

Detecting Modeling Bias with Continuous Time Flow Models on Weak Lensing Maps

Kangning Diao, Biwei Dai, Uros Seljak

Simulation-based inference provides a powerful framework for extracting rich information from nonlinear scales in current and upcoming cosmological surveys, and ensuring its robust…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 9 cited

Square Kilometre Array Science Data Challenge 3a: foreground removal for an EoR experiment

A. Bonaldi, P. Hartley, R. Braun +179

We present and analyse the results of the Science data challenge 3a (SDC3a, https://sdc3.skao.int/challenges/foregrounds), an EoR foreground-removal community-wide exercise organis…

astro-ph.IM2025

Multi-fidelity emulator for large-scale 21 cm lightcone images: a few-shot transfer learning approach with generative adversarial network

Kangning Diao, Yi Mao

Emulators using machine learning techniques have emerged to efficiently generate mock data matching the large survey volume for upcoming experiments, as an alternative approach to…

astro-ph.IM2024

: A Differentiable and GPU-accelerated Synchrotron Simulation Package

Kangning Diao, Zack Li, Richard D. P. Grumitt +1

We introduce synax, a novel library for automatically differentiable simulation of Galactic synchrotron emission. Built on the JAX framework, synax leverages JAX's capabilities, in…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 1 cited

Modeling Foreground Spatial Variations in 21 cm Gaussian Process Component Separation

Kangning Diao, Richard D. P. Grumitt, Yi Mao

Gaussian processes (GPs) have been extensively utilized as nonparametric models for component separation in 21 cm data analyses. This exploits the distinct spectral behavior of the…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 3 cited

Reionization Parameter Inference from 3D Minkowski Functionals of the 21 cm Signals

Kangning Diao, Zhaoting Chen, Xuelei Chen +1

The Minkowski Functionals (MFs), a set of topological summary statistics, have emerged as a powerful tool for extracting non-Gaussian information. We investigate the prospect of co…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 2 cited

Multi-fidelity Emulator for Cosmological Large Scale 21 cm Lightcone Images: a Few-shot Transfer Learning Approach with GAN

Kangning Diao, Yi Mao

Large-scale numerical simulations () of cosmic reionization are required to match the large survey volume of the upcoming Square Kilometre Array (SKA). We pres…

astro-ph.IM2023

Can Diffusion Model Conditionally Generate Astrophysical Images?

Xiaosheng Zhao, Yuan-Sen Ting, Kangning Diao +1

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are frequently utilized in astronomy to construct an emulator of numerical simulations. Nevertheless, training GANs can prove to be a precari…