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  1. Cosmology with One Galaxy: An Analytic Formula Relating \(\Omega_{m}\) with Galaxy Properties

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    Standard cosmological analyses typically treat galaxy formation and cosmological parameter inference as decoupled problems, relying on population-level statistics such as clustering, lensing, or halo abundances. However, classical …
  2. Cosmological back-reaction of baryons on dark matter in the CAMELS simulations

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    Baryonic processes such as radiative cooling and feedback from massive stars and active galactic nuclei (AGN) directly redistribute baryons in the Universe but also indirectly redistribute dark matter …
  3. How DREAMS Are Made: Emulating Satellite Galaxy and Subhalo Populations with Diffusion Models and Point Clouds

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    The connection between galaxies and their host dark matter (DM) halos is critical to our understanding of cosmology, galaxy formation, and DM physics. To maximize the return of …
  4. One Latent to Fit Them All: A Unified Representation of Baryonic Feedback on Matter Distribution

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    Accurate and parsimonious quantification of baryonic feedback on matter distribution is of crucial importance for understanding both cosmology and galaxy formation from observational data. This is, however, challenging …
  5. The DREAMS Project: A New Suite of 1,024 Simulations to Contextualize the Milky Way and Assess Physics Uncertainties

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    We introduce a new suite of 1,024 cosmological and hydrodynamical zoom-in simulations of Milky Way-mass halos, run with Cold Dark Matter, as part of the …
  6. Galaxy Phase-Space and Field-Level Cosmology: The Strength of Semi-Analytic Models

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    Semi-analytic models are a widely used approach to simulate galaxy properties within a cosmological framework, relying on simplified yet physically motivated prescriptions. They have also proven to …
  7. The DREAMS Project: Disentangling the Impact of Halo-to-Halo Variance and Baryonic Feedback on Milky Way Dark Matter Density Profiles

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    Astrophysical searches for dark matter in the Milky Way require a reliable model for its density distribution, which in turn depends on the influence of baryonic feedback on …
  8. Lost in the FoG: Pitfalls of Models for Large-scale Hydrogen Distributions

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    Large-scale H I surveys and their cross correlations with galaxy distributions have immense potential as cosmological probes. Interpreting these measurements requires theoretical models that must incorporate redshift …
  9. How Does Feedback Affect the Star Formation Histories of Galaxies?

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    Star formation in galaxies is regulated by the interplay of a range of processes that shape the multiphase gas in the interstellar and circumgalactic media. Using the Cosmology …
  10. Learning the Universe: cosmological and astrophysical parameter inference with galaxy luminosity functions and colours

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    We perform the first direct cosmological and astrophysical parameter inference from the combination of galaxy luminosity functions and colours using a simulation-based inference approach. Using the SYNTHESIZER …
  11. The DREAMS Project: Disentangling the Impact of Halo-to-Halo Variance and Baryonic Feedback on Milky Way Satellite Galaxies

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    We analyze the properties of satellite galaxies around 1,024 Milky Way-mass hosts from the DREAMS Project, simulated within a \(Λ\)CDM cosmology. Utilizing the TNG galaxy …
  12. Learning Cosmology from Nearest Neighbour Statistics

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    Extracting cosmological parameters from galaxy/halo catalogues with sub-percent level accuracy is an important aspect of modern cosmology, especially in view of ongoing and upcoming surveys such …
  13. Linking Warm Dark Matter to Merger Tree Histories via Deep Learning Networks

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    Dark matter (DM) halos form hierarchically in the Universe through a series of merger events. Cosmological simulations can represent this series of mergers as a graph-like "tree …
  14. On the Sensitivity of Different Galaxy Properties to Warm Dark Matter

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    We study the impact of warm dark matter (WDM) particle mass on galaxy properties using 1024 state-of-the-art cosmological hydrodynamical simulations from the DREAMS project. We …
  15. Interpreting Cosmological Information from Neural Networks in the Hydrodynamic Universe

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    What happens when a black box (neural network) meets a black box (simulation of the Universe)? Recent work has shown that convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can infer cosmological …
  16. CHARM: Creating Halos with Auto-Regressive Multi-stage networks

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    To maximize the amount of information extracted from cosmological datasets, simulations that accurately represent these observations are necessary. However, traditional simulations that evolve particles under gravity by estimating …
  17. The BIG SOBOL SEQUENCE: How many simulations do we need for simulation-based inference in cosmology?

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    … training approaches will be necessary to infer information-optimal parameters from nonlinear simulations.
  18. The Denario project: Deep knowledge AI agents for scientific discovery

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    We present Denario, an AI multi-agent system designed to serve as a scientific research assistant. Denario can perform many different tasks, such as generating ideas, checking the …
  19. MG-NECOLA: Fast Neural Emulators for Modified Gravity Cosmologies

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    Observations of the large-scale structure (LSS) provide a powerful test of gravity on cosmological scales, but high-resolution N-body simulations of modified gravity (MG) are prohibitively …
  20. Predicting the Subhalo Mass Functions in Simulations from Galaxy Images

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    Strong gravitational lensing provides a powerful tool to directly infer the dark matter (DM) subhalo mass function (SHMF) in lens galaxies. However, comparing observationally inferred SHMFs to theoretical …
  21. Toward Robustness across Cosmological Simulation Models IllustrisTNG, SIMBA, Astrid, and Swift-Eagle

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    The rapid advancement of large-scale cosmological simulations has opened new avenues for cosmological and astrophysical research. However, the increasing diversity among cosmological simulation models presents a challenge …
  22. The Future of Artificial Intelligence and the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (AI+MPS)

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    This community paper developed out of the NSF Workshop on the Future of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Mathematical and Physics Sciences (MPS), which was held in March …
  23. Correcting for Interloper Contamination in the Power Spectrum with Neural Networks

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    Modern slitless spectroscopic surveys such as Euclid and Roman collect vast numbers of galaxy spectra, but their low signal-to-noise ratios often lead to incorrect redshift assignments …
  24. CLAPP: The CLASS LLM Agent for Pair Programming

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    We introduce CLAPP (CLASS LLM Agent for Pair Programming), an interactive AI assistant designed to support researchers working with the Einstein-Boltzmann solver CLASS. CLAPP leverages large language …
  25. \(\texttt{GENGARS}\): Accurate non-Gaussian initial conditions with arbitrary bispectrum for N-body simulations

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    Primordial non-Gaussianity is predicted by various inflationary models, and N-body simulations are a crucial tool for studying its imprints on large-scale structure. In this work …
  26. Field-level Comparison and Robustness Analysis of Cosmological N-body Simulations

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    We present the first field-level comparison of cosmological N-body simulations, considering various widely used codes: Abacus, CUBEP\(^{3}\)M, Enzo, Gadget, Gizmo, PKDGrav, and Ramses. Unlike …
  27. Cosmology with Topological Deep Learning

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    The standard cosmological model with cold dark matter posits a hierarchical formation of structures. We introduce topological neural networks (TNNs), implemented as message-passing neural networks on higher …
  28. Open Source Planning & Control System with Language Agents for Autonomous Scientific Discovery

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    We present a multi-agent system for automation of scientific research tasks, cmbagent (https://github.com/CMBAgents/cmbagent). The system is formed by about 30 Large Language Model …
  29. Evaluating Retrieval-Augmented Generation Agents for Autonomous Scientific Discovery in Astrophysics

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    We evaluate 9 Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) agent configurations on 105 Cosmology Question-Answer (QA) pairs that we built specifically for this purpose.The RAG configurations are manually …
  30. CosmoBench: A Multiscale, Multiview, Multitask Cosmology Benchmark for Geometric Deep Learning

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    Cosmological simulations provide a wealth of data in the form of point clouds and directed trees. A crucial goal is to extract insights from this data that shed …
  31. On the effects of parameters on galaxy properties in CAMELS and the predictability of \(\Omega_{\rm m}\)

    Publication
    Recent analyses of cosmological hydrodynamic simulations from CAMELS have shown that machine learning models can predict the parameter describing the total matter content of the universe, Ω …
  32. Cosmology with One Galaxy: Autoencoding the Galaxy Properties Manifold

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    Cosmological simulations like CAMELS and IllustrisTNG characterize hundreds of thousands of galaxies using various internal properties. Previous studies have demonstrated that machine learning can be used to infer …
  33. Cosmology from Point Clouds with Dark Matter Halos from the Quijote Simulations

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    We train a novel deep learning architecture to perform likelihood-free inference on the value of the cosmological parameters from halo catalogs of the Quijote N-body simulations …
  34. X-Raying CAMELS: Constraining Baryonic Feedback in the Circumgalactic Medium with the CAMELS Simulations and eRASS X-Ray Observations

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    The circumgalactic medium (CGM) around massive galaxies plays a crucial role in regulating star formation and feedback. Using the Cosmology and Astrophysics with MachinE Learning Simulations (CAMELS) suite …
  35. Cosmological multifield emulator

    Publication
    … achieving coefficient of determination values \(R^{2}=0.96\) and 0.83 corresponding to \({\Omega }_{m}\) and \({\sigma }_{8}\) respectively. This further demonstrates the great capability of …
  36. Introducing the DREAMS Project: DaRk mattEr and Astrophysics with Machine Learning and Simulations

    Publication
    We introduce the DaRk mattEr and Astrophysics with Machine learning and Simulations (DREAMS) project, an innovative approach to understanding the astrophysical implications of alternative dark matter (DM) models …
  37. Boosting H I-galaxy cross-clustering signal through higher order cross-correlations

    Publication
    After reionization, neutral hydrogen (\({\rm H\, {\small I}}\)) traces the large-scale structure (LSS) of the Universe, enabling \({\rm H\, {\small I}}\) intensity mapping (IM) to capture the …
  38. A field-level emulator for modelling baryonic effects across hydrodynamic simulations

    Publication
    We develop a new and simple method to model baryonic effects at the field level relevant for weak lensing analyses. We analyse thousands of state-of-the-art …
  39. Probing massive neutrinos and modified gravity with redshift-space morphologies and anisotropies of large-scale structure

    Publication
    Strong degeneracy exists between some modified gravity (MG) models and massive neutrinos because the enhanced structure growth produced by modified gravity can be suppressed due to the free …
  40. Cosmological and Astrophysical Parameter Inference from Stacked Galaxy Cluster Profiles Using CAMELS-zoomGZ

    Publication
    We present a study on the inference of cosmological and astrophysical parameters using stacked galaxy cluster profiles. Utilizing the CAMELS-zoomGZ simulations, we explore how various cluster properties …
  41. Field-level emulation of cosmic structure formation with cosmology and redshift dependence

    Publication
    We present a field-level emulator for large-scale structure, capturing the cosmology dependence and the time evolution of cosmic structure formation. The emulator maps linear displacement fields …
  42. Learning the Universe: \(3\ h^{-1}{\rm Gpc}\) Tests of a Field Level \(N\)-body Simulation Emulator

    Publication
    We apply and test a field-level emulator for non-linear cosmic structure formation in a volume matching next-generation surveys. Inferring the cosmological parameters and initial conditions …
  43. Field-level simulation-based inference with galaxy catalogs: the impact of systematic effects

    Publication
    It has been recently shown that a powerful way to constrain cosmological parameters from galaxy redshift surveys is to train graph neural networks to perform field-level likelihood …
  44. The constraining power of the Marked Power Spectrum: an analytical study

    Publication
    The marked power spectrum - a two-point correlation function of a transformed density field - has emerged as a promising tool for extracting cosmological information from the large-scale …
  45. Quijote-PNG: Optimizing the Summary Statistics to Measure Primordial Non-Gaussianity

    Publication
    We apply a suite of different estimators to the QUIJOTE-PNG halo catalogs to find the best approach to constrain Primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG) at nonlinear cosmological scales …
  46. Constraining Cosmology with Simulation-based inference and Optical Galaxy Cluster Abundance

    Publication
    We test the robustness of simulation-based inference (SBI) in the context of cosmological parameter estimation from galaxy cluster counts and masses in simulated optical datasets. We construct …
  47. Debiasing with Diffusion: Probabilistic Reconstruction of Dark Matter Fields from Galaxies with CAMELS

    Publication
    Galaxies are biased tracers of the underlying cosmic web, which is dominated by dark matter (DM) components that cannot be directly observed. Galaxy formation simulations can be used …
  48. Can we constrain warm dark matter masses with individual galaxies?

    Publication
    We study the impact of warm dark matter mass on the internal properties of individual galaxies using a large suite of 1,024 state-of-the-art cosmological …
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