Search Results for author: Shirley Ho

Found 56 papers, 36 papers with code

Surrogate Modeling for Computationally Expensive Simulations of Supernovae in High-Resolution Galaxy Simulations

no code implementations14 Nov 2023 Keiya Hirashima, Kana Moriwaki, Michiko S. Fujii, Yutaka Hirai, Takayuki R. Saitoh, Junichiro Makino, Shirley Ho

SNe release a substantial amount of matter and energy to the interstellar medium, resulting in significant feedback to star formation and gas dynamics in a galaxy.

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

no code implementations23 Oct 2023 Pablo Lemos, Liam Parker, ChangHoon Hahn, Shirley Ho, Michael Eickenberg, Jiamin Hou, Elena Massara, Chirag Modi, Azadeh Moradinezhad Dizgah, Bruno Regaldo-Saint Blancard, David Spergel

We demonstrate the robustness of our analysis by showcasing our ability to infer unbiased cosmological constraints from a series of test simulations that are constructed using different forward models than the one used in our training dataset.

Clustering Data Compression

Reusability report: Prostate cancer stratification with diverse biologically-informed neural architectures

1 code implementation28 Sep 2023 Christian Pedersen, Tiberiu Tesileanu, Tinghui Wu, Siavash Golkar, Miles Cranmer, Zijun Zhang, Shirley Ho

This suggests that different neural architectures are sensitive to different aspects of the data, an important yet under-explored challenge for clinical prediction tasks.

Learnable wavelet neural networks for cosmological inference

1 code implementation24 Jul 2023 Christian Pedersen, Michael Eickenberg, Shirley Ho

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been shown to both extract more information than the traditional two-point statistics from cosmological fields, and marginalise over astrophysical effects extremely well.

Predicting the Initial Conditions of the Universe using a Deterministic Neural Network

no code implementations23 Mar 2023 Vaibhav Jindal, Albert Liang, Aarti Singh, Shirley Ho, Drew Jamieson

Finding the initial conditions that led to the current state of the universe is challenging because it involves searching over an intractable input space of initial conditions, along with modeling their evolution via tools such as N-body simulations which are computationally expensive.

Learning Integrable Dynamics with Action-Angle Networks

1 code implementation24 Nov 2022 Ameya Daigavane, Arthur Kosmala, Miles Cranmer, Tess Smidt, Shirley Ho

Here, we propose an alternative construction for learned physical simulators that are inspired by the concept of action-angle coordinates from classical mechanics for describing integrable systems.

Numerical Integration

A Neural Network Subgrid Model of the Early Stages of Planet Formation

no code implementations8 Nov 2022 Thomas Pfeil, Miles Cranmer, Shirley Ho, Philip J. Armitage, Tilman Birnstiel, Hubert Klahr

Planet formation is a multi-scale process in which the coagulation of $\mathrm{\mu m}$-sized dust grains in protoplanetary disks is strongly influenced by the hydrodynamic processes on scales of astronomical units ($\approx 1. 5\times 10^8 \,\mathrm{km}$).

Computational Efficiency

Particle clustering in turbulence: Prediction of spatial and statistical properties with deep learning

1 code implementation5 Oct 2022 Yan-Mong Chan, Natascha Manger, Yin Li, Chao-Chin Yang, Zhaohuan Zhu, Philip J. Armitage, Shirley Ho

The simulation data are used to train a U-Net deep learning model to predict gridded three-dimensional representations of the particle density and velocity fields, given as input the corresponding fluid fields.

Clustering

Robust Simulation-Based Inference in Cosmology with Bayesian Neural Networks

1 code implementation18 Jul 2022 Pablo Lemos, Miles Cranmer, Muntazir Abidi, ChangHoon Hahn, Michael Eickenberg, Elena Massara, David Yallup, Shirley Ho

Simulation-based inference (SBI) is rapidly establishing itself as a standard machine learning technique for analyzing data in cosmological surveys.

Density Estimation

Simple lessons from complex learning: what a neural network model learns about cosmic structure formation

1 code implementation9 Jun 2022 Drew Jamieson, Yin Li, Siyu He, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, Shirley Ho, Renan Alves de Oliveira, David N. Spergel

We find our model generalizes well to these well understood scenarios, demonstrating that the networks have inferred general physical principles and learned the nonlinear mode couplings from the complex, random Gaussian training data.

CoLA

Predicting the Thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Field using Modular and Equivariant Set-Based Neural Networks

1 code implementation28 Feb 2022 Leander Thiele, Miles Cranmer, William Coulton, Shirley Ho, David N. Spergel

We train neural networks on the IllustrisTNG-300 cosmological simulation to predict the continuous electron pressure field in galaxy clusters from gravity-only simulations.

Rediscovering orbital mechanics with machine learning

no code implementations4 Feb 2022 Pablo Lemos, Niall Jeffrey, Miles Cranmer, Shirley Ho, Peter Battaglia

We then use symbolic regression to discover an analytical expression for the force law implicitly learned by the neural network, which our results showed is equivalent to Newton's law of gravitation.

BIG-bench Machine Learning Symbolic Regression

Augmenting astrophysical scaling relations with machine learning: application to reducing the Sunyaev-Zeldovich flux-mass scatter

1 code implementation4 Jan 2022 Digvijay Wadekar, Leander Thiele, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, J. Colin Hill, Miles Cranmer, David N. Spergel, Nicholas Battaglia, Daniel Anglés-Alcázar, Lars Hernquist, Shirley Ho

Using SR on the data from the IllustrisTNG hydrodynamical simulation, we find a new proxy for cluster mass which combines $Y_\mathrm{SZ}$ and concentration of ionized gas ($c_\mathrm{gas}$): $M \propto Y_\mathrm{conc}^{3/5} \equiv Y_\mathrm{SZ}^{3/5} (1-A\, c_\mathrm{gas})$.

Symbolic Regression

Learned Coarse Models for Efficient Turbulence Simulation

1 code implementation31 Dec 2021 Kimberly Stachenfeld, Drummond B. Fielding, Dmitrii Kochkov, Miles Cranmer, Tobias Pfaff, Jonathan Godwin, Can Cui, Shirley Ho, Peter Battaglia, Alvaro Sanchez-Gonzalez

We show that our proposed model can simulate turbulent dynamics more accurately than classical numerical solvers at the comparably low resolutions across various scientifically relevant metrics.

Super-resolving Dark Matter Halos using Generative Deep Learning

1 code implementation11 Nov 2021 David Schaurecker, Yin Li, Jeremy Tinker, Shirley Ho, Alexandre Refregier

Generative deep learning methods built upon Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) provide a great tool for predicting non-linear structure in cosmology.

Learned Simulators for Turbulence

no code implementations ICLR 2022 Kim Stachenfeld, Drummond Buschman Fielding, Dmitrii Kochkov, Miles Cranmer, Tobias Pfaff, Jonathan Godwin, Can Cui, Shirley Ho, Peter Battaglia, Alvaro Sanchez-Gonzalez

We show that our proposed model can simulate turbulent dynamics more accurately than classical numerical solvers at the same low resolutions across various scientifically relevant metrics.

A Deep Learning Approach for Active Anomaly Detection of Extragalactic Transients

1 code implementation22 Mar 2021 V. Ashley Villar, Miles Cranmer, Edo Berger, Gabriella Contardo, Shirley Ho, Griffin Hosseinzadeh, Joshua Yao-Yu Lin

There is a shortage of multi-wavelength and spectroscopic followup capabilities given the number of transient and variable astrophysical events discovered through wide-field, optical surveys such as the upcoming Vera C. Rubin Observatory.

Anomaly Detection

A Bayesian neural network predicts the dissolution of compact planetary systems

2 code implementations11 Jan 2021 Miles Cranmer, Daniel Tamayo, Hanno Rein, Peter Battaglia, Samuel Hadden, Philip J. Armitage, Shirley Ho, David N. Spergel

Our model, trained directly from short N-body time series of raw orbital elements, is more than two orders of magnitude more accurate at predicting instability times than analytical estimators, while also reducing the bias of existing machine learning algorithms by nearly a factor of three.

BIG-bench Machine Learning Time Series Analysis

Learning the Evolution of the Universe in N-body Simulations

no code implementations10 Dec 2020 Chang Chen, Yin Li, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, Shirley Ho, Anthony Pullen

Understanding the physics of large cosmological surveys down to small (nonlinear) scales will significantly improve our knowledge of the Universe.

Neural networks as optimal estimators to marginalize over baryonic effects

no code implementations11 Nov 2020 Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, Benjamin D. Wandelt, Daniel Anglés-Alcázar, Shy Genel, Jose Manuel Zorrilla Mantilla, Shirley Ho, David N. Spergel

For this data, we show that neural networks can 1) extract the maximum available cosmological information, 2) marginalize over baryonic effects, and 3) extract cosmological information that is buried in the regime dominated by baryonic physics.

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Astrophysics of Galaxies Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

HInet: Generating neutral hydrogen from dark matter with neural networks

no code implementations20 Jul 2020 Digvijay Wadekar, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, Shirley Ho, Laurence Perreault-Levasseur

Upcoming 21cm surveys will map the spatial distribution of cosmic neutral hydrogen (HI) over very large cosmological volumes.

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Predicting the long-term stability of compact multiplanet systems

1 code implementation13 Jul 2020 Daniel Tamayo, Miles Cranmer, Samuel Hadden, Hanno Rein, Peter Battaglia, Alysa Obertas, Philip J. Armitage, Shirley Ho, David Spergel, Christian Gilbertson, Naireen Hussain, Ari Silburt, Daniel Jontof-Hutter, Kristen Menou

Our Stability of Planetary Orbital Configurations Klassifier (SPOCK) predicts stability using physically motivated summary statistics measured in integrations of the first $10^4$ orbits, thus achieving speed-ups of up to $10^5$ over full simulations.

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics

Meta-Learning for One-Class Classification with Few Examples using Order-Equivariant Network

1 code implementation8 Jul 2020 Ademola Oladosu, Tony Xu, Philip Ekfeldt, Brian A. Kelly, Miles Cranmer, Shirley Ho, Adrian M. Price-Whelan, Gabriella Contardo

This paper presents a meta-learning framework for few-shots One-Class Classification (OCC) at test-time, a setting where labeled examples are only available for the positive class, and no supervision is given for the negative example.

Astronomy General Classification +3

Discovering Symbolic Models from Deep Learning with Inductive Biases

3 code implementations NeurIPS 2020 Miles Cranmer, Alvaro Sanchez-Gonzalez, Peter Battaglia, Rui Xu, Kyle Cranmer, David Spergel, Shirley Ho

The technique works as follows: we first encourage sparse latent representations when we train a GNN in a supervised setting, then we apply symbolic regression to components of the learned model to extract explicit physical relations.

Symbolic Regression

From Dark Matter to Galaxies with Convolutional Neural Networks

1 code implementation17 Oct 2019 Jacky H. T. Yip, Xinyue Zhang, Yanfang Wang, Wei zhang, Yueqiu Sun, Gabriella Contardo, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, Siyu He, Shy Genel, Shirley Ho

Cosmological simulations play an important role in the interpretation of astronomical data, in particular in comparing observed data to our theoretical expectations.

Learning neutrino effects in Cosmology with Convolutional Neural Networks

no code implementations9 Oct 2019 Elena Giusarma, Mauricio Reyes Hurtado, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, Siyu He, Shirley Ho, ChangHoon Hahn

In this work, we propose a new method, based on a deep learning network, to quickly generate simulations with massive neutrinos from standard $\Lambda$CDM simulations without neutrinos.

Learning Symbolic Physics with Graph Networks

no code implementations12 Sep 2019 Miles D. Cranmer, Rui Xu, Peter Battaglia, Shirley Ho

We introduce an approach for imposing physically motivated inductive biases on graph networks to learn interpretable representations and improved zero-shot generalization.

Inductive Bias Symbolic Regression +1

The Quijote simulations

3 code implementations11 Sep 2019 Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, ChangHoon Hahn, Elena Massara, Arka Banerjee, Ana Maria Delgado, Doogesh Kodi Ramanah, Tom Charnock, Elena Giusarma, Yin Li, Erwan Allys, Antoine Brochard, Chi-Ting Chiang, Siyu He, Alice Pisani, Andrej Obuljen, Yu Feng, Emanuele Castorina, Gabriella Contardo, Christina D. Kreisch, Andrina Nicola, Roman Scoccimarro, Licia Verde, Matteo Viel, Shirley Ho, Stephane Mallat, Benjamin Wandelt, David N. Spergel

The Quijote simulations are a set of 44, 100 full N-body simulations spanning more than 7, 000 cosmological models in the $\{\Omega_{\rm m}, \Omega_{\rm b}, h, n_s, \sigma_8, M_\nu, w \}$ hyperplane.

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

Modeling the Gaia Color-Magnitude Diagram with Bayesian Neural Flows to Constrain Distance Estimates

2 code implementations21 Aug 2019 Miles D. Cranmer, Richard Galvez, Lauren Anderson, David N. Spergel, Shirley Ho

We demonstrate an algorithm for learning a flexible color-magnitude diagram from noisy parallax and photometry measurements using a normalizing flow, a deep neural network capable of learning an arbitrary multi-dimensional probability distribution.

HIGAN: Cosmic Neutral Hydrogen with Generative Adversarial Networks

1 code implementation29 Apr 2019 Juan Zamudio-Fernandez, Atakan Okan, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, Seda Bilaloglu, Asena Derin Cengiz, Siyu He, Laurence Perreault Levasseur, Shirley Ho

One of the most promising ways to observe the Universe is by detecting the 21cm emission from cosmic neutral hydrogen (HI) through radio-telescopes.

Clustering

From Dark Matter to Galaxies with Convolutional Networks

1 code implementation15 Feb 2019 Xinyue Zhang, Yanfang Wang, Wei zhang, Yueqiu Sun, Siyu He, Gabriella Contardo, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, Shirley Ho

In combination with current and upcoming data from cosmological observations, our method has the potential to answer fundamental questions about our Universe with the highest accuracy.

Learning to Predict the Cosmological Structure Formation

1 code implementation15 Nov 2018 Siyu He, Yin Li, Yu Feng, Shirley Ho, Siamak Ravanbakhsh, Wei Chen, Barnabás Póczos

We build a deep neural network, the Deep Density Displacement Model (hereafter D$^3$M), to predict the non-linear structure formation of the Universe from simple linear perturbation theory.

The Simons Observatory: Science goals and forecasts

1 code implementation22 Aug 2018 The Simons Observatory Collaboration, Peter Ade, James Aguirre, Zeeshan Ahmed, Simone Aiola, Aamir Ali, David Alonso, Marcelo A. Alvarez, Kam Arnold, Peter Ashton, Jason Austermann, Humna Awan, Carlo Baccigalupi, Taylor Baildon, Darcy Barron, Nick Battaglia, Richard Battye, Eric Baxter, Andrew Bazarko, James A. Beall, Rachel Bean, Dominic Beck, Shawn Beckman, Benjamin Beringue, Federico Bianchini, Steven Boada, David Boettger, J. Richard Bond, Julian Borrill, Michael L. Brown, Sarah Marie Bruno, Sean Bryan, Erminia Calabrese, Victoria Calafut, Paolo Calisse, Julien Carron, Anthony Challinor, Grace Chesmore, Yuji Chinone, Jens Chluba, Hsiao-Mei Sherry Cho, Steve Choi, Gabriele Coppi, Nicholas F. Cothard, Kevin Coughlin, Devin Crichton, Kevin D. Crowley, Kevin T. Crowley, Ari Cukierman, John M. D'Ewart, Rolando Dünner, Tijmen de Haan, Mark Devlin, Simon Dicker, Joy Didier, Matt Dobbs, Bradley Dober, Cody J. Duell, Shannon Duff, Adri Duivenvoorden, Jo Dunkley, John Dusatko, Josquin Errard, Giulio Fabbian, Stephen Feeney, Simone Ferraro, Pedro Fluxà, Katherine Freese, Josef C. Frisch, Andrei Frolov, George Fuller, Brittany Fuzia, Nicholas Galitzki, Patricio A. Gallardo, Jose Tomas Galvez Ghersi, Jiansong Gao, Eric Gawiser, Martina Gerbino, Vera Gluscevic, Neil Goeckner-Wald, Joseph Golec, Sam Gordon, Megan Gralla, Daniel Green, Arpi Grigorian, John Groh, Chris Groppi, Yilun Guan, Jon E. Gudmundsson, Dongwon Han, Peter Hargrave, Masaya Hasegawa, Matthew Hasselfield, Makoto Hattori, Victor Haynes, Masashi Hazumi, Yizhou He, Erin Healy, Shawn W. Henderson, Carlos Hervias-Caimapo, Charles A. Hill, J. Colin Hill, Gene Hilton, Matt Hilton, Adam D. Hincks, Gary Hinshaw, Renée Hložek, Shirley Ho, Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho, Logan Howe, Zhiqi Huang, Johannes Hubmayr, Kevin Huffenberger, John P. Hughes, Anna Ijjas, Margaret Ikape, Kent Irwin, Andrew H. Jaffe, Bhuvnesh Jain, Oliver Jeong, Daisuke Kaneko, Ethan D. Karpel, Nobuhiko Katayama, Brian Keating, Sarah S. Kernasovskiy, Reijo Keskitalo, Theodore Kisner, Kenji Kiuchi, Jeff Klein, Kenda Knowles, Brian Koopman, Arthur Kosowsky, Nicoletta Krachmalnicoff, Stephen E. Kuenstner, Chao-Lin Kuo, Akito Kusaka, Jacob Lashner, Adrian Lee, Eunseong Lee, David Leon, Jason S. -Y. Leung, Antony Lewis, Yaqiong Li, Zack Li, Michele Limon, Eric Linder, Carlos Lopez-Caraballo, Thibaut Louis, Lindsay Lowry, Marius Lungu, Mathew Madhavacheril, Daisy Mak, Felipe Maldonado, Hamdi Mani, Ben Mates, Frederick Matsuda, Loïc Maurin, Phil Mauskopf, Andrew May, Nialh McCallum, Chris McKenney, Jeff McMahon, P. Daniel Meerburg, Joel Meyers, Amber Miller, Mark Mirmelstein, Kavilan Moodley, Moritz Munchmeyer, Charles Munson, Sigurd Naess, Federico Nati, Martin Navaroli, Laura Newburgh, Ho Nam Nguyen, Michael Niemack, Haruki Nishino, John Orlowski-Scherer, Lyman Page, Bruce Partridge, Julien Peloton, Francesca Perrotta, Lucio Piccirillo, Giampaolo Pisano, Davide Poletti, Roberto Puddu, Giuseppe Puglisi, Chris Raum, Christian L. Reichardt, Mathieu Remazeilles, Yoel Rephaeli, Dominik Riechers, Felipe Rojas, Anirban Roy, Sharon Sadeh, Yuki Sakurai, Maria Salatino, Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao, Emmanuel Schaan, Marcel Schmittfull, Neelima Sehgal, Joseph Seibert, Uros Seljak, Blake Sherwin, Meir Shimon, Carlos Sierra, Jonathan Sievers, Precious Sikhosana, Maximiliano Silva-Feaver, Sara M. Simon, Adrian Sinclair, Praween Siritanasak, Kendrick Smith, Stephen R. Smith, David Spergel, Suzanne T. Staggs, George Stein, Jason R. Stevens, Radek Stompor, Aritoki Suzuki, Osamu Tajima, Satoru Takakura, Grant Teply, Daniel B. Thomas, Ben Thorne, Robert Thornton, Hy Trac, Calvin Tsai, Carole Tucker, Joel Ullom, Sunny Vagnozzi, Alexander van Engelen, Jeff Van Lanen, Daniel D. Van Winkle, Eve M. Vavagiakis, Clara Vergès, Michael Vissers, Kasey Wagoner, Samantha Walker, Jon Ward, Ben Westbrook, Nathan Whitehorn, Jason Williams, Joel Williams, Edward J. Wollack, Zhilei Xu, Byeonghee Yu, Cyndia Yu, Fernando Zago, Hezi Zhang, Ningfeng Zhu

With up to an order of magnitude lower polarization noise than maps from the Planck satellite, the high-resolution sky maps will constrain cosmological parameters derived from the damping tail, gravitational lensing of the microwave background, the primordial bispectrum, and the thermal and kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effects, and will aid in delensing the large-angle polarization signal to measure the tensor-to-scalar ratio.

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Estimating Cosmological Parameters from the Dark Matter Distribution

no code implementations6 Nov 2017 Siamak Ravanbakhsh, Junier Oliva, Sebastien Fromenteau, Layne C. Price, Shirley Ho, Jeff Schneider, Barnabas Poczos

A major approach to estimating the cosmological parameters is to use the large-scale matter distribution of the Universe.

The clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: tomographic BAO analysis of DR12 combined sample in configuration space

2 code implementations11 Jul 2016 Yuting Wang, Gong-Bo Zhao, Chia-Hsun Chuang, Ashley J. Ross, Will J. Percival, Héctor Gil-Marín, Antonio J. Cuesta, Francisco-Shu Kitaura, Sergio Rodriguez-Torres, Joel R. Brownstein, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Shirley Ho, Jean-Paul Kneib, Matt Olmstead, Francisco Prada, Graziano Rossi, Ariel G. Sánchez, Salvador Salazar-Albornoz, Daniel Thomas, Jeremy Tinker, Rita Tojeiro, Mariana Vargas-Magaña, Fangzhou Zhu

Splitting the sample into multiple overlapping redshift slices to extract the redshift information of galaxy clustering, we obtain a measurement of $D_A(z)/r_d$ and $H(z)r_d$ at nine effective redshifts with the full covariance matrix calibrated using MultiDark-Patchy mock catalogues.

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

The clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: cosmological analysis of the DR12 galaxy sample

no code implementations11 Jul 2016 Shadab Alam, Metin Ata, Stephen Bailey, Florian Beutler, Dmitry Bizyaev, Jonathan A. Blazek, Adam S. Bolton, Joel R. Brownstein, Angela Burden, Chia-Hsun Chuang, Johan Comparat, Antonio J. Cuesta, Kyle S. Dawson, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Stephanie Escoffier, Héctor Gil-Marín, Jan Niklas Grieb, Nick Hand, Shirley Ho, Karen Kinemuchi, David Kirkby, Francisco Kitaura, Elena Malanushenko, Viktor Malanushenko, Claudia Maraston, Cameron K. McBride, Robert C. Nichol, Matthew D. Olmstead, Daniel Oravetz, Nikhil Padmanabhan, Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille, Kaike Pan, Marcos Pellejero-Ibanez, Will J. Percival, Patrick Petitjean, Francisco Prada, Adrian M. Price-Whelan, Beth A. Reid, Sergio A. Rodríguez-Torres, Natalie A. Roe, Ashley J. Ross, Nicholas P. Ross, Graziano Rossi, Jose Alberto Rubiño-Martín, Ariel G. Sánchez, Shun Saito, Salvador Salazar-Albornoz, Lado Samushia, Siddharth Satpathy, Claudia G. Scóccola, David J. Schlegel, Donald P. Schneider, Hee-Jong Seo, Audrey Simmons, Anže Slosar, Michael A. Strauss, Molly E. C. Swanson, Daniel Thomas, Jeremy L. Tinker, Rita Tojeiro, Mariana Vargas Magaña, Jose Alberto Vazquez, Licia Verde, David A. Wake, Yuting Wang, David H. Weinberg, Martin White, W. Michael Wood-Vasey, Christophe Yèche, Idit Zehavi, Zhongxu Zhai, Gong-Bo Zhao

When combined with supernova Ia data, we find H0 = 67. 3+/-1. 0 km/s/Mpc even for our most general dark energy model, in tension with some direct measurements.

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Detecting Damped Lyman-$α$ Absorbers with Gaussian Processes

4 code implementations14 May 2016 Roman Garnett, Shirley Ho, Simeon Bird, Jeff Schneider

We develop an automated technique for detecting damped Lyman-$\alpha$ absorbers (DLAs) along spectroscopic lines of sight to quasi-stellar objects (QSOs or quasars).

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability

Large Covariance Matrices: Smooth Models from the 2-Point Correlation Function

1 code implementation6 Oct 2015 Ross O'Connell, Daniel Eisenstein, Mariana Vargas, Shirley Ho, Nikhil Padmanabhan

We introduce a new method for estimating the covariance matrix for the galaxy correlation function in surveys of large-scale structure.

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Optimal Ridge Detection using Coverage Risk

no code implementations NeurIPS 2015 Yen-Chi Chen, Christopher R. Genovese, Shirley Ho, Larry Wasserman

We introduce the concept of coverage risk as an error measure for density ridge estimation.

A First Look at creating mock catalogs with machine learning techniques

no code implementations5 Mar 2013 Xiaoying Xu, Shirley Ho, Hy Trac, Jeff Schneider, Barnabas Poczos, Michelle Ntampaka

We investigate machine learning (ML) techniques for predicting the number of galaxies (N_gal) that occupy a halo, given the halo's properties.

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

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