Awesome AI for Astronomy

A curated index of papers, models, datasets, benchmarks and software for machine learning in astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology, heliophysics and planetary science.

    Surveys and Reviews

    21 entries
    2026.07
    Source Finding and Characterisation for SKAO Science

    Review of classical and machine learning source finding and morphology classification for SKAO surveys.

    arXiv 2026
    2026.06
    The Role of Artificial Intelligence in the SKA Era

    Chapter on deep learning for source finding, RFI mitigation, imaging, anomaly detection and scheduling for the SKA.

    arXiv 2026
    2026.06
    Machine Learning and Deep Learning for Exoplanet Detection and Atmospheric Characterization with JWST and the Upcoming Ariel Mission

    Review of machine learning for transit identification, candidate vetting, detrending and atmospheric retrieval, including neural and flow matching posterior estimation, in the context of JWST and Ariel.

    arXiv 2026
    2026.03
    Deep Learning-Based Astronomical Multimodal Data Fusion: A Comprehensive Review

    Review of deep learning methods that fuse images, spectra, time series and catalogues in astronomy.

    arXiv 2026
    2026.01
    Opportunities in AI/ML for the Rubin LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration

    LSST DESC roadmap covering photometric redshifts, transient classification, weak lensing inference, foundation models and infrastructure.

    arXiv 2026
    2025.11
    Advances and Challenges in Solar Flare Prediction: A Review

    Review of statistical, physics-based and deep learning flare forecasting including CNN, LSTM and transformer models.

    arXiv 2025
    2025.10
    Deep Learning in Astrophysics

    Annual Review covering inductive biases, simulation-based inference, anomaly detection, foundation models, reinforcement learning and LLM agents in astronomy.

    ARA&A 2025
    2025.08
    From AI for Science to Agentic Science: A Survey on Autonomous Scientific Discovery

    Domain-oriented survey of autonomous scientific discovery including agentic astronomy and cosmology research.

    arXiv 2025
    2025.08
    A Survey of Scientific Large Language Models: From Data Foundations to Agent Frontiers

    Survey of scientific LLMs and their training data, including astronomy datasets and models.

    arXiv 2025
    2025.08
    The Revolution in Strong Lensing Discoveries from Euclid

    Review of how machine learning, citizen science and expert inspection found about 500 high-quality lens candidates in Euclid Q1.

    arXiv 2025
    2025.03
    Towards Scientific Intelligence: A Survey of LLM-based Scientific Agents

    Survey of LLM-based scientific agents with a section on astronomy and cosmology applications.

    arXiv 2025
    2025.01
    Machine Learning in Gamma Astronomy

    Review of deep learning methods for Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope data, covering gamma-hadron separation, event reconstruction and fast simulation.

    arXiv 2025
    2024.09
    What is the Role of Large Language Models in the Evolution of Astronomy Research?

    Use cases, survey results and recommendations on LLM adoption in astronomy research.

    arXiv 2024
    2023.10
    Constructing Impactful Machine Learning Research for Astronomy: Best Practices for Researchers and Reviewers

    Recommendations on baselines, validation, reproducibility and reporting for machine learning papers in astronomy.

    arXiv 2023
    2023.10
    Deep Learning Based Systems for Crater Detection: A Review

    Review of CNN, U-Net, R-CNN and transformer crater detection algorithms for the Moon, Mars and Mercury.

    arXiv 2023
    2023.03
    Machine Learning for Observational Cosmology

    Review of machine learning applications in time-domain astronomy, galaxy surveys and emulation for cosmology.

    Rep. Prog. Phys. 2023
    2022.11
    Astronomia ex machina: A History, Primer and Outlook on Neural Networks in Astronomy

    Historical review of neural networks in astronomy with a primer on deep learning and an outlook on astronomical foundation models.

    R. Soc. Open Sci. 2023
    2022.10
    The Dawes Review 10: The Impact of Deep Learning for the Analysis of Galaxy Surveys

    Review of deep learning applications to galaxy surveys covering classification, property estimation, discovery and cosmological inference.

    PASA 2023
    2020.05
    Enhancing Gravitational-Wave Science with Machine Learning

    Review of machine learning for LIGO and Virgo data quality, signal modeling, searches and parameter estimation.

    MLST 2021
    2019.11
    The Frontier of Simulation-Based Inference

    Review of simulation-based inference methods and the role of machine learning in inference with intractable likelihoods.

    PNAS 2020
    2019.04
    Machine Learning in Astronomy: A Practical Overview

    Lecture notes from the IAC Winter School 2018 covering supervised and unsupervised learning for astronomical datasets.

    arXiv 2019

    Foundation Models and Representation Learning

    30 entries

    Images

    9 entries
    2026.09
    Gestalt: A Meta-Foundation Model for AstronomyImages

    Combines frozen embeddings of 22 foundation models from eight families by whitening and randomised SVD, outperforming every member on 19 of 21 metrics for HSC, JWST and Legacy Survey galaxies.

    NeurIPS 2026 Workshop (Interpretability for Discovery)
    2024.05
    AstroPT: Scaling Large Observation Models for AstronomyImages

    Autoregressive transformers from 1M to 2.1B parameters pretrained on 8.6M DESI Legacy Survey galaxy images.

    ICML 2024 Workshop (AI4Science)
    2024.04
    Galaxy Scaling LawsScaling Laws for Galaxy ImagesImages

    Supervised scaling study on 840k galaxy images with over 100M Galaxy Zoo annotations.

    arXiv 2024
    2023.12
    Rare Galaxy Classes Identified In Foundation Model RepresentationsImages

    Searches Zoobot representation space for rare morphological classes.

    arXiv 2023
    2023
    Zoobot: Adaptable Deep Learning Models for Galaxy MorphologyImages

    Pretrained galaxy morphology encoders and finetuning utilities, deployed in the Euclid morphology pipeline.

    JOSS 2023
    2022.06
    Zoobot FMTowards Galaxy Foundation Models with Hybrid Contrastive LearningImages

    Pretraining galaxy morphology encoders on Galaxy Zoo volunteer responses for transfer to downstream tasks.

    ICML 2022 Workshop (ML4Astro)
    2021.10
    Galaxy SearchSelf-Supervised Similarity Search for Large Scientific DatasetsImages

    Self-supervised representations of 42M DESI Legacy Imaging Survey galaxies with a public similarity search tool.

    NeurIPS 2021 Workshop (ML4PS)
    2021.10
    Zoobot RepresentationsPractical Galaxy Morphology Tools from Deep Supervised Representation LearningImages

    Representations learned from Galaxy Zoo labels reused for similarity search, anomaly finding and new classification tasks.

    MNRAS 2022
    2020.12
    SSL-SDSSSelf-Supervised Representation Learning for Astronomical ImagesImages

    Contrastive pretraining on about 1.2M SDSS galaxy images, evaluated on morphology classification and photometric redshift estimation.

    ApJL 2021

    Spectra

    9 entries
    2026.01
    OmniSpectra: A Unified Foundation Model for Universal Spectra Representation LearningSpectra

    Masked-modeling transformer pretrained on 5.5 million spectra from eight surveys at native resolution.

    arXiv 2026
    2025.10
    Universal Spectral Tokenization via Self-Supervised Panchromatic Representation LearningSpectra

    Transformer tokenizer that reads spectra on their native wavelength grids, pretrained on SDSS, DESI, GALAH and APOGEE and adapted to object classification and stellar parameter regression.

    arXiv 2025
    2025.07
    SpecCLIP: Aligning and Translating Spectroscopic Measurements for StarsSpectra

    Contrastive alignment of LAMOST low-resolution and Gaia XP spectra foundation models for parameter estimation and cross-spectrum prediction.

    arXiv 2025
    2025.06
    Applying Vision Transformers on Spectral Analysis of Astronomical ObjectsSpectra

    Converts one-dimensional spectra into images for pretrained ViT backbones in classification and regression.

    arXiv 2025
    2024.11
    SpectraFM: Tuning into Stellar Foundation ModelsSpectra

    Transformer pretrained on synthetic stellar spectra and transferred to real spectra across wavelength ranges.

    NeurIPS 2024 Workshop (FM4Science)
    2023.08
    Stellar FMTowards an Astronomical Foundation Model for Stars with a Transformer-Based ModelSpectraTabular

    Transformer trained on cross-survey APOGEE, Gaia and 2MASS data that performs discriminative and generative stellar tasks without task-specific finetuning.

    MNRAS 2024
    2022.11
    spenderAutoencoding Galaxy Spectra I: ArchitectureSpectra

    Attentive convolutional autoencoder that models galaxy spectra in the rest frame with explicit redshifting and resampling, trained on SDSS-II.

    AJ 2023
    2020.07
    Cycle-StarNet: Bridging the Gap between Theory and Data by Leveraging Large Data SetsSpectra

    Domain adaptation between synthetic and observed stellar spectra with cycle-consistent networks.

    ApJ 2021
    2020.02
    SDSS-VAEDimensionality Reduction of SDSS Spectra with Variational AutoencodersSpectra

    Variational autoencoder compression of SDSS galaxy spectra into a low-dimensional latent space.

    AJ 2020

    Time Series

    6 entries
    2026.10
    What Does Self-supervision Add to Engineered Features for Stellar Light Curves?Time series

    Measures the information that self-supervised light-curve encoders add beyond engineered periodogram and variability features.

    arXiv 2026
    2026.06
    Domain-Informed Multi-View Self-Distillation for Astronomical Light-Curve Representation Learning with JEPATime series

    Domain-informed JEPA combines raw, periodogram and phase-folded light-curve views with uncertainty-aware tokenization and multi-view self-distillation, trained on LEAVES and evaluated on StarEmbed and 12 irregular time-series datasets.

    arXiv 2026
    2025.04
    FALCO: A Foundation Model of Astronomical Light Curves for Time Domain AstronomyTime series

    Self-supervised transformer on Kepler light curves for variability classification, surface gravity estimation and flare identification.

    arXiv 2025
    2024.08
    Maven: A Multimodal Foundation Model for Supernova ScienceSpectraTime series

    Contrastive alignment of supernova photometry and spectroscopy, pretrained on 0.5M synthetic events and finetuned on ZTF.

    MLST 2024
    2023.09
    Astroconformer: The Prospects of Analyzing Stellar Light Curves with Transformer-Based Deep Learning ModelsTime series

    Conformer model for Kepler light curves that infers surface gravity and frequency of maximum oscillation power.

    MNRAS 2024
    2022.05
    ASTROMER: A Transformer-Based Embedding for the Representation of Light CurvesTime series

    Self-supervised light-curve encoder pretrained with masked magnitude prediction on MACHO R-band data.

    A&A 2023

    Multimodal

    6 entries
    2026.10
    Self-Supervised Representation Learning for JWST Galaxy Images and Low Resolution SpectraImagesSpectra

    Joint representation of F150W imaging and 1 to 2 micron PRISM spectra that recovers stellar mass at 1 < z < 3 with R2 of about 0.9, with CLIP alignment improving single-modality inference.

    NeurIPS 2026 Workshop (RPS)
    2025.10
    AION-1: Omnimodal Foundation Model for Astronomical SciencesImagesSpectraTabular

    Token-based masked modeling over 39 modalities from Legacy Survey, HSC, SDSS, DESI and Gaia, released at 300M to 3.1B parameters.

    NeurIPS 2025
    2024.11
    AstroM3: A Self-Supervised Multimodal Model for AstronomySpectraTime seriesTabular

    Trimodal CLIP-style pretraining on variable-star light curves, spectra and metadata.

    arXiv 2024
    2024.03
    PAPERCLIP: Associating Astronomical Observations and Natural Language with Multi-Modal ModelsImagesText

    CLIP finetuned on Hubble Space Telescope observations paired with observing proposal abstracts.

    COLM 2024
    2023.10
    AstroCLIP: A Cross-Modal Foundation Model for GalaxiesImagesSpectra

    Contrastive alignment of DESI galaxy images and spectra in a shared embedding space.

    MNRAS 2024
    2023.10
    MPPMultiple Physics Pretraining for Physical Surrogate ModelsSimulations

    Autoregressive pretraining of a single surrogate model across heterogeneous physical simulation systems.

    NeurIPS 2024

    Language and Vision-Language Models

    11 entries
    2026.09
    Rethinking Domain Specialization for Open-Ended Scientific Reasoning in Astronomy Language Models

    Evaluates whether continued pretraining and instruction tuning on astronomy corpora help open-ended scientific reasoning.

    arXiv 2026
    2026.01
    Spec-o3: A Tool-Augmented Vision-Language Agent for Rare Celestial Object Candidate Vetting via Automated Spectral Inspection

    Tool-using vision-language agent trained with supervised fine-tuning on expert inspection trajectories and outcome-based reinforcement learning, which vets rare-object candidates by iteratively inspecting spectral regions, raising macro-F1 on five LAMOST tasks from 28.3 to 76.5 with transfer to SDSS and DESI.

    ACL 2026Oral
    2025.05
    AstroSage-70BAstroMLab 4: Benchmark-Topping Performance in Astronomy Q&A with a 70B-Parameter Domain-Specialized Reasoning Model

    Llama-3.1-70B with continued pretraining and reasoning-chain SFT. Scores 89.0% on a validated 3,846-question subset of AstroMLab 1.

    arXiv 2025
    2025.04
    AstroLLaVA: Towards the Unification of Astronomical Data and Natural Language

    LLaVA finetuned on about 30k captioned images from APOD, ESO and Hubble for astronomical visual question answering.

    ICLR 2025 Workshop (SCI-FM)
    2024.11
    AstroSage-8BAstroMLab 3: Achieving GPT-4o Level Performance in Astronomy with a Specialized 8B-Parameter Large Language Model

    Llama-3.1-8B with continued pretraining on about 250k astro-ph and gr-qc preprints, SFT and model merging. Scores 80.9% on AstroMLab 1.

    Sci. Rep. 2025
    2024.11
    Astro-HEP-BERT: A Bidirectional Language Model for Studying the Meanings of Concepts in Astrophysics and High Energy Physics

    BERT model adapted to astrophysics and high energy physics literature for concept analysis.

    arXiv 2024
    2024.09
    AstroLLaMA-2-70BAstroMLab 2: AstroLLaMA-2-70B Model and Benchmarking Specialised LLMs for Astronomy

    Releases AstroLLaMA-3-8B and AstroLLaMA-2-70B and reports that the 7B AstroLLaMA series underperforms its base model.

    SC 2024 Workshop (AI4S)
    2024.07
    cosmosage: A Natural-Language Assistant for Cosmology

    Cosmology assistant built by continued pretraining on cosmology papers and textbooks followed by question-answer finetuning.

    Astron. Comput. 2025
    2024.01
    AstroLLaMA-Chat: Scaling AstroLLaMA with Conversational and Diverse Datasets

    Continual pretraining on abstracts, introductions and conclusions followed by domain conversational finetuning.

    arXiv 2024
    2023.09
    AstroLLaMA: Towards Specialized Foundation Models in Astronomy

    LLaMA-2-7B finetuned on over 300k astro-ph abstracts.

    IJCNLP-AACL 2023 Workshop (WIESP)
    2021.12
    astroBERTBuilding astroBERT, a Language Model for Astronomy & Astrophysics

    BERT model with 110M parameters trained on NASA ADS papers for named entity recognition and classification.

    arXiv 2021

    Agents and Retrieval Systems

    12 entries
    2026.11
    GalaxyWikiExtracting Published Discussions of 13,616 Galaxies with Language Models

    GPT-5.5 agents extract source-linked discussions from arXiv papers and coordinate matching groups the evidence into 13,616 galaxy entries.

    WASP 2026 Workshop
    2026.11
    auto_researchA Semi-autonomous Multi-agent Pipeline for High-energy Astrophysics Research with Enforced Provenance and Verifiable Self-extension

    Multi-agent pipeline that retrieves HEASARC data and writes its own tools, tested by reproducing IXPE polarimetry results.

    arXiv 2026
    2026.04
    Competing with AI Scientists: Agent-Driven Approach to Astrophysics Research

    Cmbagent multi-agent workflow with human intervention that builds a weak lensing inference pipeline and took first place in the FAIR Universe Weak Lensing Uncertainty Challenge.

    arXiv 2026
    2025.10
    Mephisto: Self-Improving Large Language Model-Based Agents for Automated Interpretation of Multi-band Galaxy Observations

    Multi-agent tree search over CIGALE SED models with a self-updating knowledge base, applied to JWST Little Red Dots.

    arXiv 2025
    2025.10
    DenarioThe Denario Project: Deep Knowledge AI Agents for Scientific Discovery

    Modular multi-agent research assistant for idea generation, analysis and paper drafting, using cmbagent as its analysis backend.

    arXiv 2025
    2025.10
    CTAgent / GammapygptDomain-Specific Agents for Cherenkov Telescope Array Control Software and Gamma-Ray Data Analysis

    Agents that generate and validate CTAO control software and Gammapy analysis scripts with automated self-correction.

    arXiv 2025
    2025.04
    AI CosmologistThe AI Cosmologist I: An Agentic System for Automated Data Analysis

    Agents for planning, coding, execution, analysis and synthesis that run machine learning experiments on cosmological datasets.

    arXiv 2025
    2025.03
    AstroAgents: A Multi-Agent AI for Hypothesis Generation from Mass Spectrometry Data

    Multi-agent system that proposes astrobiology hypotheses from mass spectrometry data.

    arXiv 2025
    2025.03
    AI Agents for Ground-Based Gamma Astronomy

    LLM agent prototypes for CTAO control software and Gammapy analysis code generation with retrieval augmentation.

    arXiv 2025
    2024.12
    cmbagentMulti-Agent System for Cosmological Parameter Analysis

    Planning and control system of about 30 LLM agents for autonomous cosmological data analysis.

    arXiv 2024
    2024.12
    StarWhisper Telescope: An AI Framework for Automating End-to-End Astronomical Observations

    LLM agent that plans observations, controls a 10-telescope network and runs transient detection for the Nearby Galaxy Supernovae Survey.

    Commun. Eng. 2025
    2024.08
    pathfinder: A Semantic Framework for Literature Review and Knowledge Discovery in Astronomy

    Retrieval-augmented literature search and synthesis over about 350k ADS papers with time and citation weighting.

    ApJS 2024

    Benchmarks

    30 entries

    Benchmarks are grouped by input type. Data and modality benchmarks provide observational or simulated data with fixed splits and metrics for task-specific models. The two evaluation subsections test general or domain-adapted language and vision-language models.

    Data and Modality Benchmarks

    15 entries
    2026.11
    FAIR Universe WLFAIR Universe Weak Lensing ML Uncertainty Challenge: Dataset and Cosmological Inference CompetitionImages

    Simulated HSC-like weak lensing convergence maps and a competition scoring cosmological parameter estimates together with their uncertainty calibration.

    arXiv 2026
    2026.08
    JW-FD: A Long Horizon Multimodal Solar Flare Forecasting DatasetImagesTabular

    Fifteen-year flare forecasting dataset from 2011 to 2025 built from SDO/HMI magnetograms, NOAA region summaries and flare lists, with active region level splits and configurable horizons.

    arXiv 2026
    2026.07
    Moonstone: A Multimodal Foundation Model and Benchmark for Lunar Remote SensingImages

    Lunar remote sensing foundation model released with a benchmark of six downstream tasks.

    arXiv 2026
    2026.04
    CraterBench-R: Instance-Level Crater Retrieval for Planetary ScaleImages

    Instance retrieval benchmark of about 25,000 Mars CTX crater identities with verified multi-view queries, used to evaluate 30 vision backbones.

    arXiv 2026
    2026.03
    LenghuSky-8: An 8-Year All-Sky Cloud Dataset with Star-Aware Masks and Alt-Az Calibration for Segmentation and NowcastingImagesTime series

    Eight-year dataset of 429,620 all-sky images with star-aware cloud masks and per-pixel altitude-azimuth calibration, supporting DINOv3-based segmentation and short-horizon cloud nowcasting benchmarks for observatory operations.

    CVPR Findings 2026
    2025.11
    NuBench: An Open Benchmark for Deep Learning-Based Event Reconstruction in Neutrino TelescopesPoint clouds

    Seven simulated neutrino telescope datasets used to compare ParticleNeT, DynEdge, GRIT and DeepIce on energy, direction, topology, vertex and inelasticity reconstruction.

    arXiv 2025
    2025.10
    Mars-Bench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Foundation Models for Mars Science TasksImages

    20 orbital and rover image datasets for classification, segmentation and object detection used to compare natural-image, Earth observation and vision-language backbones.

    NeurIPS 2025 (Datasets and Benchmarks)
    2025.10
    MMAEMulti-Modal Masked Autoencoders for Learning Image-Spectrum Associations for Galaxy Evolution and CosmologyImagesSpectra

    Paired dataset of 134,533 HSC galaxy images and DESI spectra with a masked autoencoder baseline for cross-modal reconstruction and redshift estimation.

    arXiv 2025
    2025.08
    SuryaBench: Benchmark Dataset for Advancing Machine Learning in Heliophysics and Space Weather PredictionImagesTime series

    Curated SDO core dataset with application benchmarks on active region emergence, flares, magnetic field extrapolation, EUV irradiance and solar wind prediction.

    arXiv 2025
    2025.07
    CosmoBench: A Multiscale, Multiview, Multitask Cosmology Benchmark for Geometric Deep LearningPoint clouds

    About 34,000 point clouds from Quijote, CAMELS-SAM and CAMELS together with 25,000 merger trees for cosmological parameter inference and tree tasks.

    NeurIPS 2025 (Datasets and Benchmarks)
    2023.12
    RadioGalaxyNET: Dataset and Novel Computer Vision Algorithms for the Detection of Extended Radio Galaxies and Infrared HostsImages

    2,800 radio and infrared images with 4,155 expert-annotated galaxies in COCO format for multi-component radio galaxy and host detection.

    PASA 2024
    2023.05
    MiraBest: A Dataset of Morphologically Classified Radio Galaxies for Machine LearningImages

    1,256 NVSS and FIRST radio-loud AGN labelled by Fanaroff-Riley class with confidence flags, distributed as a batched dataset for deep learning libraries.

    RASTI 2023
    2023.03
    SKA SDC2SKA Science Data Challenge 2: Analysis and ResultsData cubes

    Detection and characterisation of 233,245 simulated HI sources in a 2,000 h SKA-MID spectral line cube, with reproducibility awards for open pipelines.

    MNRAS 2023
    2022.09
    MLGWSC-1: The First Machine Learning Gravitational-Wave Search Mock Data ChallengeTime series

    Common datasets and metrics for comparing machine learning gravitational-wave search algorithms.

    PRD 2023
    2018.02
    The Strong Gravitational Lens Finding ChallengeImages

    Open challenge in which participants classified 100,000 simulated space-based and ground-based cutouts as lenses or non-lenses, comparing CNNs, SVMs, arc finders and visual inspection.

    A&A 2019

    Multimodal Model Evaluation

    5 entries
    2026.05
    AstroAlertBench: Evaluating the Accuracy, Reasoning, and Honesty of Multimodal LLMs in Astronomical ClassificationImagesTabularText

    Evaluates 13 multimodal LLMs on transient alert review through metadata grounding, scientific reasoning and hierarchical classification over five classes.

    arXiv 2026
    2026.04
    AstroVLBenchA Systematic Evaluation of Vision-Language Models for Observational Astronomical Reasoning TasksImagesSpectraTime seriesTabularText

    More than 4,100 expert-verified instances over five tasks covering HSC imaging, FIRST and NVSS radio maps, AKARI photometry, PLAsTiCC light curves and optical spectra.

    arXiv 2026
    2026.02
    MarsRetrieval: Benchmarking Vision-Language Models for Planetary-Scale Geospatial Retrieval on MarsImagesText

    Benchmark of vision-language models on retrieval over Mars orbital imagery at planetary scale.

    arXiv 2026
    2025.10
    AstroMMBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Multimodal Large Language Models Capabilities in AstronomyImagesText

    621 expert-reviewed multiple-choice questions on astronomical images across six subfields, used to evaluate 25 MLLMs.

    arXiv 2025
    2025.03
    AstroChartDomainCQA: Crafting Knowledge-Intensive QA from Domain-Specific ChartsImagesText

    AstroChart provides 1,690 question-answer pairs over 482 astronomy charts and is used to evaluate 21 MLLMs on perception, numerical reasoning and domain knowledge.

    AAAI 2026

    Text and Reasoning Evaluation

    10 entries
    2026.10
    Astro2Method: Benchmarking LLMs on Machine Learning Method Selection in AstronomyText

    500 expert-reviewed binary questions from 346 astronomy papers asking which machine learning method performs better for a stated problem.

    arXiv 2026
    2026.09
    Reconstructing Implicit Scientific Knowledge: Evaluating LLM Agents through End-to-End Reproduction of AstronomyText

    Reproduction framework that separates execution from verification, applied to one ApJ and thirteen Nature astronomy papers, eleven of which leave the reproduction path ambiguous.

    arXiv 2026
    2026.06
    ALeRCE Text-to-SQLQuerying an Astronomical Database Using Large Language Models: The ALeRCE Text-to-SQL SystemText

    Evaluates thirteen LLMs on translating natural-language requests into SQL queries over the ALeRCE alert broker database, comparing direct and step-by-step generation.

    A&A 2026
    2026.03
    AI Cosplaying as Astrophysicists: A Controlled Synthetic-Agent Study of AI-Assisted Astrophysical Research WorkflowsText

    Controlled study of 144 synthetic researchers on 2,592 astrophysics assignments, comparing solo work with four styles of AI assistance over 12,960 scored episodes.

    arXiv 2026
    2025.10
    IOAALarge Language Models Achieve Gold Medal Performance at the International Olympiad on Astronomy & Astrophysics (IOAA)Text

    Evaluates five LLMs on 49 theory and 8 data analysis problems from the 2022 to 2025 IOAA exams.

    arXiv 2025
    2025.10
    ReplicationBench: Can AI Agents Replicate Astrophysics Research Papers?Text

    111 tasks derived from 20 astrophysics papers that test whether agents can reproduce published results, with the best models scoring about 20 percent.

    arXiv 2025
    2025.07
    CosmoPaperQAEvaluating Retrieval-Augmented Generation Agents for Autonomous Scientific Discovery in AstrophysicsText

    105 expert-written question-answer pairs from cosmology papers for comparing retrieval-augmented generation agents against human evaluation.

    arXiv 2025
    2025.05
    AstroVisBench: A Code Benchmark for Scientific Computing and Visualization in AstronomyText

    864 processing and visualization tasks from 110 NOIRLab and STScI notebooks, scored by execution and a VLM judge.

    NeurIPS 2025 (Datasets and Benchmarks)
    2025
    Astro-QAAn Astronomical Question Answering Dataset for Evaluating Large Language ModelsText

    3,082 English and Chinese questions of six types across astrophysics, astrometry, celestial mechanics, history and techniques, evaluated on 27 LLMs.

    Scientific Data 2025
    2024.07
    AstroMLab 1: Who Wins Astronomy Jeopardy!?Text

    4,425 multiple-choice questions curated from the Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics for evaluating LLM knowledge recall.

    Astron. Comput. 2025

    Galaxies

    47 entries

    Morphology and Catalogues

    16 entries
    2026.08
    A General-Purpose VLM Can Teach an Astronomy Foundation Model to Better Recognize Galaxy Morphology

    Distils a general-purpose VLM answering Galaxy Zoo decision tree questions into Zoobot through side tuning, with teacher uncertainty guiding which galaxies are sent for human labels.

    arXiv 2026
    2025.03
    Euclid Q1: Exploring Galaxy Morphology across Cosmic Time through Sersic Fits

    Euclid Q1 morphology study listed among Zoobot applications.

    arXiv 2025
    2025.03
    Euclid Q1: First Visual Morphology Catalogue

    First Euclid visual morphology catalogue produced with Galaxy Zoo volunteers and Zoobot.

    arXiv 2025
    2025.03
    Euclid Q1: A First Look at the Fraction of Bars in Massive Galaxies at z < 1

    Bar fraction measurement in Euclid Q1 using machine learning morphology.

    arXiv 2025
    2025.03
    Euclid Q1: A Census of Dwarf Galaxies across a Range of Distances and Environments

    Dwarf galaxy census in Euclid Q1 listed among Zoobot applications.

    arXiv 2025
    2024.06
    Galaxy Zoo DESI: Large-scale Bars as a Secular Mechanism for Triggering AGN

    Uses Galaxy Zoo DESI deep learning morphologies to study bars and AGN.

    arXiv 2024
    2024.05
    Galaxy Zoo: Stronger Bars Facilitate Quenching in Star-forming Galaxies

    Uses deep learning bar classifications to study the link between bar strength and quenching.

    arXiv 2024
    2024.04
    Uncovering Tidal Treasures: Automated Classification of Faint Tidal Features in DECaLS Data

    Classification of faint tidal features in DECaLS images using pretrained morphology models.

    arXiv 2024
    2024.02
    Euclid Preparation. Measuring Detailed Galaxy Morphologies for Euclid with Machine Learning

    Zoobot trained to predict detailed morphology for Euclid imaging.

    arXiv 2024
    2023.04
    Astroformer: More Data Might Not be All You Need for Classification

    Hybrid transformer and convolutional classifier trained in the low-data regime on Galaxy10 DECals.

    arXiv 2023
    2023.03
    Harnessing the Hubble Space Telescope Archives: A Catalog of 21,926 Interacting Galaxies

    Zoobot-based search of the HST archive for interacting galaxies.

    ApJ 2023
    2023.02
    DeepAstroUDA: Semi-Supervised Universal Domain Adaptation for Cross-Survey Galaxy Morphology Classification and Anomaly Detection

    Universal domain adaptation between SDSS, DECaLS and LSST mock images that also clusters unknown classes.

    MLST 2023
    2021.11
    A Comparison of Deep Learning Architectures for Optical Galaxy Morphology Classification

    Compares deep learning architectures for optical galaxy morphology classification using the Zoobot library.

    ICECET 2021
    2021.02
    GZ DECaLSGalaxy Zoo DECaLS: Detailed Visual Morphology Measurements from Volunteers and Deep Learning for 314,000 Galaxies

    7.5M volunteer classifications and Bayesian CNN posteriors for 314k DECaLS galaxies.

    MNRAS 2022
    2020.06
    GaMorNetGalaxy Morphology Network: A Convolutional Neural Network Used to Study Morphology and Quenching in ~100,000 SDSS and ~20,000 CANDELS Galaxies

    CNN pretrained on simulated galaxies and transferred to SDSS and CANDELS bulge-to-total classification.

    ApJ 2020

    Anomaly Detection

    13 entries
    2026.08
    Agentic Active Learning Meets Visual Embeddings: Finding Anomalies among 370 000 Variable Stars from ASAS-SN

    DINOv2 light-curve embeddings, isolation forests and multimodal LLM agents that vet anomaly candidates.

    arXiv 2026
    2026.02
    astromorph: Self-supervised Machine Learning Pipeline for Astronomical Morphology Analysis

    BYOL-based embedding pipeline applied to ALMA protoplanetary disks and infrared dark clouds.

    arXiv 2026
    2025.10
    Re-envisioning Euclid Galaxy Morphology: Identifying and Interpreting Features with Sparse Autoencoders

    Sparse autoencoders on Zoobot and masked-autoencoder embeddings of Euclid Q1 galaxies to surface interpretable features.

    arXiv 2025
    2025.05
    AnomalyMatch: Discovering Rare Objects of Interest with Semi-supervised and Active Learning

    FixMatch with EfficientNet and a user-in-the-loop active learning interface, integrated into ESA Datalabs.

    arXiv 2025
    2025.05
    AnomalyMatch HLAIdentifying Astrophysical Anomalies in 99.6 Million Source Cutouts from the Hubble Legacy Archive Using AnomalyMatch

    Applies AnomalyMatch to the full Hubble Legacy Archive and reports 1,176 new anomalies across 19 classes.

    A&A 2025
    2025
    Coniferest: A Complete Active Anomaly Detection Framework

    Isolation-forest based active anomaly detection with expert feedback, used by the SNAD team on ZTF data.

    Astron. Comput. 2025
    2023.11
    Enabling Unsupervised Discovery in Astronomical Images through Self-Supervised Representations

    Self-supervised features with clustering, artefact removal, anomaly detection and similarity search on survey images.

    MNRAS 2024
    2023.09
    Astronomaly at Scale: Searching for Anomalies Amongst 4 Million Galaxies

    Applies Astronomaly to about 4M galaxies using pretrained Zoobot representations.

    MNRAS 2024
    2021.12
    DeepAdversaries: Examining the Robustness of Deep Learning Models for Galaxy Morphology Classification

    Studies the robustness of galaxy morphology classifiers to image perturbations.

    MLST 2022
    2021.05
    HSC AnomaliesAnomaly Detection in Hyper Suprime-Cam Galaxy Images with Generative Adversarial Networks

    Wasserstein GAN anomaly scores for HSC galaxy images.

    MNRAS 2021
    2020.10
    Astronomaly: Personalised Active Anomaly Detection in Astronomical Data

    Active learning framework that combines anomaly scores with user feedback to rank interesting objects.

    Astron. Comput. 2021
    2020.06
    SequencerExtracting the Main Trend in a Data Set: The Sequencer Algorithm

    Unsupervised ordering algorithm that recovers one-dimensional trends in spectra and other datasets.

    ApJ 2021
    2016.11
    Weirdest GalaxiesThe Weirdest SDSS Galaxies: Results from an Outlier Detection Algorithm

    Unsupervised random forest outlier scores for about two million SDSS galaxy spectra.

    MNRAS 2017

    Physical Properties and Photometric Redshifts

    18 entries
    2026.02
    PITAOptimizing Deep Learning Photometric Redshifts for the Roman Space Telescope with HST/CANDELS

    Semi-supervised network that combines contrastive, color and redshift losses on CANDELS images.

    arXiv 2026
    2025.07
    Template-Fitting Meets Deep Learning: Redshift Estimation Using Physics-Guided Neural Networks

    Multimodal network with cross-attention and Bayesian layers that integrates SED templates on HSC PDR3 data.

    arXiv 2025
    2025.07
    Deep Learning Improves Photometric Redshifts in All Regions of Color Space

    Self-organizing map analysis showing lower scatter and attenuation bias for image-based photo-z on SDSS.

    arXiv 2025
    2025.05
    RAILRedshift Assessment Infrastructure Layers (RAIL): Rubin-era Photometric Redshift Stress-testing and At-scale Production

    LSST DESC framework for training, evaluating and running photometric redshift estimators.

    arXiv 2025
    2025.01
    Hybrid-z: Enhancing the Kilo-Degree Survey Bright Galaxy Sample Photometric Redshifts with Deep Learning

    Inception CNN on four-band images combined with an MLP on nine-band magnitudes for 1.2 million KiDS-Bright galaxies.

    A&A 2025
    2024.10
    CLAP. I. Resolving Miscalibration for Deep Learning-based Galaxy Photometric Redshift Estimation

    Supervised contrastive learning with adaptive KNN to calibrate photometric redshift probability densities.

    arXiv 2024
    2024.06
    Galaxy Spectroscopy without Spectra: Galaxy Properties from Photometric Images with Conditional Diffusion Models

    Diffusion model with contrastive networks that predicts optical spectra and photometric redshifts from SDSS images.

    arXiv 2024
    2024.05
    pzflowProbabilistic Forward Modeling of Galaxy Catalogs with Normalizing Flows

    Normalizing flows for modeling galaxy catalogs and photometric redshift posteriors.

    AJ 2024
    2023.04
    SBI++: Flexible, Ultra-fast Likelihood-free Inference Customized for Astronomical Applications

    Neural posterior estimation for galaxy SED fitting that handles missing data and out-of-distribution noise.

    ApJL 2023
    2022.10
    Mangrove: Learning Galaxy Properties from Merger Trees

    Graph neural networks on dark matter merger trees that emulate semi-analytic galaxy properties.

    ApJ 2022
    2022.07
    GaMPEN: A Machine-learning Framework for Estimating Bayesian Posteriors of Galaxy Morphological Parameters

    Bayesian CNN that predicts posteriors of bulge-to-total ratio, effective radius and flux.

    ApJ 2022
    2022.03
    SEDflowAccelerated Bayesian SED Modeling Using Amortized Neural Posterior Estimation

    Amortized neural posterior estimation of 12 SED parameters in about one second per galaxy.

    ApJ 2022
    2022.02
    PROVABGSThe DESI PRObabilistic Value-Added Bright Galaxy Survey (PROVABGS) Mock Challenge

    Bayesian SED modeling pipeline for DESI BGS that uses neural emulators for speed.

    ApJ 2023
    2019.11
    SPECULATOR: Emulating Stellar Population Synthesis for Fast and Accurate Galaxy Spectra and Photometry

    Neural network emulator of stellar population synthesis for fast SED fitting.

    ApJS 2020
    2019
    dense_basisNonparametric Star Formation History Reconstruction with Gaussian Processes. I. Counting Major Episodes of Star Formation

    Gaussian process representation of galaxy star formation histories for SED fitting.

    ApJ 2019
    2018.06
    Pasquet Photo-zPhotometric Redshifts from SDSS Images Using a Convolutional Neural Network

    CNN that predicts redshift probability densities directly from multiband SDSS images.

    A&A 2019
    2016.12
    DelightData-driven, Interpretable Photometric Redshifts Trained on Heterogeneous and Unrepresentative Data

    Gaussian process photometric redshifts that combine templates with data-driven flux modeling.

    ApJ 2017
    2015.07
    ANNz2: Photometric Redshift and Probability Distribution Function Estimation Using Machine Learning

    Ensembles of neural networks and boosted decision trees for photometric redshift PDFs.

    PASP 2016

    Gravitational Lensing

    22 entries
    2026.11
    SHINE: Shear inference environment - Generative forward modelling for radio weak gravitational lensing

    A convolutional autoencoder trained on HST COSMOS galaxy images supplies morphologies for shear inference on 10,000 simulated radio interferometric visibilities.

    arXiv 2026
    2026.04
    AgileLensEuclid Quick Data Release (Q1). AgileLens: A Scalable CNN-Based Pipeline for Strong Gravitational Lens Identification

    Iterative fine-tuning of a modified VGG16 from 27 seed lenses to 30,686 training images, yielding 441 grade A or B candidates in Euclid Q1, 130 of them new.

    arXiv 2026
    2025.11
    Euclid Quick Data Release (Q1). Searching for Giant Gravitational Arcs in Galaxy Clusters with Mask Region-based Convolutional Neural Networks

    Mask R-CNN instance segmentation of cluster-scale lensed arcs trained on Euclidised HST simulations.

    arXiv 2025
    2025.05
    arXiv 2025
    2025.03
    Euclid Q1: The Strong Lensing Discovery Engine A, System Overview and Lens Catalogue

    Overview of the Euclid Q1 strong lens search combining volunteers and machine learning.

    arXiv 2025
    2025.03
    arXiv 2025
    2025.03
    Euclid Q1: The Strong Lensing Discovery Engine D, Double-Source-Plane Lens Candidates

    Double-source-plane lens candidates from the Euclid Q1 search.

    arXiv 2025
    2025.03
    Euclid Q1: The Strong Lensing Discovery Engine E, Ensemble Classification of Strong Gravitational Lenses

    Ensemble classification of lens candidates and lessons for Euclid DR1.

    arXiv 2025
    2025.03
    arXiv 2025
    2025.02
    Euclid: Finding Strong Gravitational Lenses in the Early Release Observations Using Convolutional Neural Networks

    Five CNN lens finders applied to 13 Euclid ERO fields, followed by visual inspection and spectroscopic confirmation.

    arXiv 2025
    2024.06
    Caustics: A Python Package for Accelerated Strong Gravitational Lensing Simulations

    Differentiable, GPU-accelerated lensing simulator for machine learning workflows.

    JOSS 2024
    2022.11
    Score LensingPosterior Samples of Source Galaxies in Strong Gravitational Lenses with Score-Based Priors

    Score-based generative priors for lensed source reconstruction.

    arXiv 2022
    2022.03
    paltasFrom Images to Dark Matter: End-to-end Inference of Substructure from Hundreds of Strong Gravitational Lenses

    Simulation-based inference of subhalo mass function parameters from many lenses.

    ApJ 2023
    2022.02
    GIGA-Lens: Fast Bayesian Inference for Strong Gravitational Lens Modeling

    GPU-accelerated lens modeling with gradient-based optimization, variational inference and HMC.

    ApJ 2022
    2021.10
    Lens MiningMining for Strong Gravitational Lenses with Self-supervised Learning

    Self-supervised representations of DESI Legacy Survey images used to find new strong lens candidates.

    ApJ 2022
    2021.02
    deeplenstronomy: A Dataset Simulation Package for Strong Gravitational Lensing

    Configuration-driven simulation of strong lensing training sets for deep learning.

    JOSS 2021
    2020.10
    ovejeroHierarchical Inference with Bayesian Neural Networks: An Application to Strong Gravitational Lensing

    Bayesian neural networks for population-level lens parameter inference.

    ApJ 2021
    2020
    DeepLenseDeep Learning the Morphology of Dark Matter Substructure

    Classifies strong lensing images by dark matter substructure type with deep learning.

    ApJ 2020
    2019.09
    Substructure MiningMining for Dark Matter Substructure: Inferring Subhalo Population Properties from Strong Lenses with Machine Learning

    Likelihood-ratio estimation with neural networks for subhalo population inference from lensed images.

    ApJ 2019
    2019.08
    DeepMassDeep Learning Dark Matter Map Reconstructions from DES SV Weak Lensing Data

    U-Net mass mapping of Dark Energy Survey Science Verification weak lensing data.

    MNRAS 2020

    Source Detection, Deblending and Image Simulation

    19 entries
    2026.05
    FluxFlow: Conservative Flow-Matching for Astronomical Image Super-Resolution

    Pixel-space flow matching for super-resolution that weights training by observational uncertainty and source regions, with a training-free Wiener-regularised correction against spurious sources; introduces 19,500 co-registered DESI to HST image pairs.

    NeurIPS 2026
    2026.04
    Diffusion-based Galaxy Simulations for the Roman High Latitude Survey

    DDPM trained on JWST JADES imaging to generate Roman-like multi-band galaxy stamps for weak lensing.

    arXiv 2026
    2026.01
    Denoising the Deep Sky: Physics-Based CCD Noise Formation for Astronomical Imaging

    Synthesises paired training data from a CCD noise model covering shot noise, response non-uniformity, dark current, readout effects, cosmic rays and hot pixels on stacked high-SNR bases; releases multi-band raw frames from two twin ground-based telescopes.

    ECCV 2026
    2026
    scarlet2: Astronomical Scene Modeling in JAX

    JAX scene modeling for multi-band, multi-epoch and multi-instrument data with neural network priors.

    JOSS 2026
    2025.06
    GalaxySDCan AI Dream of Unseen Galaxies? Conditional Diffusion Model for Galaxy Morphology Augmentation

    Stable Diffusion fine-tuned on Galaxy Zoo 2 morphology prompts to augment classifiers and find rare dusty early-type galaxies.

    arXiv 2025
    2025.06
    GalCatDiffCategory-based Galaxy Image Generation via Diffusion Models

    Class-conditioned diffusion model with residual attention blocks trained on Galaxy10 DECaLS categories.

    arXiv 2025
    2025.04
    Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model for Realistic and Fast Generated Euclid-like Data for Weak Lensing Analysis

    DDPM trained on CANDELS images that generates Euclid-like galaxies for shear calibration.

    arXiv 2025
    2025
    BTKThe Blending ToolKit: A Simulation Framework for Evaluation of Galaxy Detection and Deblending

    Simulation and metrics framework for benchmarking detection and deblending algorithms.

    OJAp 2025
    2024.07
    MuyGPs Stellar BlendsStellar Blend Image Classification Using Computationally Efficient Gaussian Processes

    Scalable Gaussian process classification of blended stellar images.

    arXiv 2024
    2022.03
    WaveDiffRethinking Data-driven Point Spread Function Modeling with a Differentiable Optical Model

    Differentiable wavefront-based PSF model that captures chromatic variations for Euclid-like telescopes.

    Inverse Problems 2023
    2021.11
    astroddpmRealistic Galaxy Image Simulation via Score-Based Generative Models

    Denoising diffusion models that generate realistic galaxy images.

    MNRAS 2022
    2021.07
    MuyGPs BlendsGaussian Process Classification for Galaxy Blend Identification in LSST

    Gaussian process classifiers that flag blended galaxies in simulated LSST images.

    ApJ 2022
    2021.05
    MuyGPs Star-Galaxy ImagesStar-Galaxy Image Separation with Computationally Efficient Gaussian Process Classification

    Scalable local Gaussian process classification of star and galaxy image cutouts.

    AJ 2022
    2020.12
    PS1 Point Source Catalog IIA Morphological Classification Model to Identify Unresolved PanSTARRS1 Sources II: Update to the PS1 Point Source Catalog

    Random forest star and galaxy separation for Pan-STARRS1 sources.

    PASP 2021
    2020.10
    MuyGPs Star-GalaxyStar-Galaxy Separation via Gaussian Processes with Model Reduction

    Gaussian process classification of stars and galaxies with dimensionality reduction.

    arXiv 2020
    2020.08
    galsim-hubDeep Generative Models for Galaxy Image Simulations

    Conditional generative models of galaxy light profiles integrated with GalSim.

    MNRAS 2021
    2020.05
    DeblenderVAEDeblending Galaxies with Variational Autoencoders: A Joint Multi-band, Multi-instrument Approach

    VAE-based deblender trained jointly on ground and space-based simulated images.

    MNRAS 2021
    2019
    Astro R-CNNDeblending and Classifying Astronomical Sources with Mask R-CNN Deep Learning

    Instance segmentation for joint detection, deblending and star-galaxy classification.

    MNRAS 2019
    2018.02
    scarlet: Source Separation in Multi-band Images by Constrained Matrix Factorization

    Constrained matrix factorization deblender for multiband survey images.

    Astron. Comput. 2018

    Stars and Stellar Spectroscopy

    15 entries
    2026.05
    Spectra as Language: Large Language Models for Scalable Stellar Parameter and Abundance Inference

    Fine-tunes a large language model on LAMOST low-resolution spectra in two stages to infer stellar parameters and elemental abundances, validated against Gaia-ESO and GALAH DR4.

    arXiv 2026
    2026.04
    ASTRAFier: A Novel and Scalable Transformer-based Stellar Variability Classifier

    BiLSTM, attention and CNN classifier applied to about 2.8 million TESS light curves.

    arXiv 2026
    2026.04
    Homogeneous Stellar Parameters from Heterogeneous Spectra with Deep Learning

    Single transformer trained across APOGEE, GALAH, DESI and Gaia RVS that outputs atmospheric parameters, 20 abundances, distances and ages on one consistent scale.

    arXiv 2026
    2026.04
    Potential of Gaia XP Spectra in Red Giant Star Asteroseismology: A Deep-Learning Approach

    CNN-LSTM models trained on Kepler red giants recover delta nu, nu max and period spacing from Gaia XP spectra and provide predictions for more than 2.5 million giants.

    arXiv 2026
    2026.03
    A Generalist Model Including Evolved Star Mass and Age

    Extends a transformer stellar foundation model to infer mass and age of giants from Gaia XP spectra.

    arXiv 2026
    2025.10
    EBOP MAVEN: A Machine Learning Model to Estimate the Input Parameters for Analytic Fitting of Detached Eclipsing Binary Light Curves

    CNN that predicts detached eclipsing binary parameters from phase-folded TESS light curves to initialise JKTEBOP fits.

    arXiv 2025
    2025.08
    The Use of Conditional Variational Autoencoders in Generating Stellar Spectra

    CVAE that generates stellar spectra over a grid of atmospheric parameters, rotation and instrumental resolution.

    arXiv 2025
    2025.07
    Millions of Main-Sequence Binary Stars from Gaia BP/RP Spectra

    Neural spectral emulator of single stars used to identify more than 14 million binary candidates from XP spectra.

    arXiv 2025
    2025.05
    UA-CSNetMetallicities of 20 Million Giant Stars Based on Gaia XP Spectra

    Uncertainty-aware cost-sensitive network that estimates metallicities down to [Fe/H] about -4 for giants.

    arXiv 2025
    2024.11
    Mapping the Milky Way with Gaia Bp/Rp Spectra I: Systematic Flux Corrections and Atmospheric Parameters for 68 Million Stars

    APOGEE-trained network that corrects XP flux systematics before model-atmosphere fitting.

    arXiv 2024
    2024.10
    Predicting Metallicities and Carbon Abundances from Gaia XP Spectra for (Carbon-enhanced) Metal-poor Stars

    Heteroscedastic neural network ensemble that predicts [Fe/H] and [C/Fe] for more than 10 million XP stars.

    arXiv 2024
    2024.07
    LightPredAccurate and Robust Stellar Rotation Periods Catalog for 82771 Kepler Stars Using Deep Learning

    LSTM and transformer model pretrained contrastively on Kepler light curves and trained on spot-model simulations.

    arXiv 2024
    2020.05
    Blancato CNNData-driven Derivation of Stellar Properties from Photometric Time Series Data Using Convolutional Neural Networks

    CNNs that infer stellar rotation and surface gravity from Kepler light curves.

    ApJ 2022
    2020
    stella: Convolutional Neural Networks for Flare Identification in TESS

    CNN flare detection in TESS two-minute light curves.

    JOSS 2020
    2018.08
    astroNNDeep Learning of Multi-element Abundances from High-resolution Spectroscopic Data

    Bayesian neural networks for stellar parameters and abundances from APOGEE spectra.

    MNRAS 2019

    Time-Domain Astronomy and Transients

    24 entries
    2026.07
    NAPTIME: A Neural-Process Framework for Rubin Alert Classification

    Neural process that jointly reconstructs and classifies sparse multiband light curves on ELAsTiCC2 and MALLORN.

    arXiv 2026
    2026.06
    PIE-ADA: Physics-Informed Ensemble with Adaptive Data Augmentation for Photometric Transient Classification

    Physics-motivated light-curve augmentation for rare classes combined with gradient boosted ensembles.

    arXiv 2026
    2025.08
    DeepAP: Deep Learning-based Aperture Photometry Feasibility Assessment and Aperture Size PredictionImages

    Two-stage framework uses a Vision Transformer to assess aperture-photometry feasibility and a ResNet to predict aperture size for optical survey photometry, achieving a test ROC AUC of 0.96 for feasibility assessment.

    RAA 2025
    2025.02
    Real-Time Active Learning for Optimised Spectroscopic Follow-up: Enhancing Early SN Ia Classification with the Fink Broker

    Active learning loop on the Fink stream that selects spectroscopic targets to improve early SN Ia classifiers.

    arXiv 2025
    2025.02
    Transfer Learning for Transient Classification: From Simulations to Real Data and ZTF to LSST

    Shows that transient classifiers pretrained on simulations or ZTF light curves can be adapted to real data and to LSST with small labelled samples.

    arXiv 2025
    2025.02
    FLARE: A Framework for Stellar Flare Forecasting Using Stellar Physical Properties and Historical Records

    Forecasts stellar flares from Kepler light curves by combining stellar physical properties and historical flare records through a soft prompt module and a residual record fusion module.

    IJCAI 2025
    2025.01
    ORACLE: A Real-Time, Hierarchical, Deep-Learning Photometric Classifier for the LSST

    Hierarchical recurrent classifier for real-time LSST alert streams.

    arXiv 2025
    2025.01
    AMPEL Workflows for LSST: Modular and Reproducible Real-time Photometric Classification

    SNGuess, FollowMe and FinalBet classification channels for ELAsTiCC alerts.

    arXiv 2025
    2024.07
    FCN4Flare: Fully Convolution Neural Networks for Flare Detection

    Fully convolutional networks with a NaN mask and masked Dice loss detect stellar flares point by point in variable-length Kepler light curves, yielding a catalogue of 30,285 flares on 1,426 stars.

    MNRAS 2025
    2024.04
    CATSTransient Classifiers for Fink

    Tree-based and deep learning classifiers in the Fink broker evaluated on ELAsTiCC, including the CATS architecture.

    arXiv 2024
    2024.04
    StarWhisper LCDeep Learning and Methods Based on Large Language Models Applied to Stellar Light Curve Classification

    Compares Conv1D-BiLSTM and Swin Transformer classifiers with fine-tuned LLM, multimodal LLM and audio LLM models on Kepler and K2 variable-star light curves; the Swin Transformer reaches 99% accuracy and the LLM-based models about 90%.

    Intell. Comput. 2025
    2023.11
    Identifying Light-curve Signals with a Deep-learning-based Object Detection Algorithm. II. A General Light-curve Classification Framework

    Object-detection based classifier on light curves and power spectra from Kepler, TESS and ZTF.

    ApJS 2024
    2022.08
    MuyGPs Light CurvesLight Curve Completion and Forecasting Using Fast and Scalable Gaussian Processes (MuyGPs)

    Scalable Gaussian processes for filling gaps in and forecasting light curves.

    arXiv 2022
    2021.11
    ACAIPhenomenological Classification of the Zwicky Transient Facility Astronomical Event Alerts

    Multi-label deep learning classifiers for ZTF alert phenomenology.

    arXiv 2021
    2021.06
    SCONE: Supernova Classification with a Convolutional Neural Network

    CNN on wavelength-time heatmaps of supernova light curves.

    AJ 2021
    2021.05
    Time-Series TransformerPaying Attention to Astronomical Transients: Introducing the Time-series Transformer for Photometric Classification

    Transformer classifier for multiband transient light curves evaluated on PLAsTiCC.

    RASTI 2024
    2021.02
    SCoPeThe ZTF Source Classification Project: I. Methods and Infrastructure

    Modular machine learning framework for classifying variable sources in ZTF light curves.

    AJ 2021
    2021
    Roman Microlensing NPEReal-time Likelihood-free Inference of Roman Binary Microlensing Events with Amortized Neural Posterior Estimation

    ResNet-GRU featurizer and normalizing flow that infer binary microlensing parameters in real time.

    AJ 2021
    2020.11
    Cyclic-Permutation NetworksClassification of Periodic Variable Stars with Novel Cyclic-permutation Invariant Neural Networks

    Phase-folded light-curve classifiers that are invariant to cyclic permutations.

    MNRAS 2021
    2019.07
    braaiReal-bogus Classification for the Zwicky Transient Facility Using Deep Learning

    CNN real-bogus classifier deployed in the ZTF alert pipeline.

    MNRAS 2019
    2019.04
    DeepStreaks: Identifying Fast-moving Objects in the Zwicky Transient Facility Data with Deep Learning

    CNN ensemble that identifies streaks from fast-moving near-Earth objects in ZTF images.

    MNRAS 2019
    2019.01
    SuperNNova: An Open-Source Framework for Bayesian, Neural Network Based Supernova Classification

    Recurrent and Bayesian neural networks for light-curve classification.

    MNRAS 2020
    2016.03
    snmachinePhotometric Supernova Classification with Machine Learning

    Feature extraction and classifier pipeline for photometric supernova typing.

    ApJS 2016

    Exoplanets

    27 entries
    2026.11
    Learning a model of non-stationary nuisances with non-local correlations for object detection

    Learns a sparse precision matrix for correlated stellar residuals and tests likelihood-ratio exoplanet detection on 13 VLT/SPHERE datasets.

    EUSIPCO 2026
    2026.06
    ExoVeilOne Transit Is All You Need: Detecting Exoplanets Through Learned Stellar Behaviour with ExoVeil

    Transformer world model trained on 16,499 Kepler light curves predicts stellar flux, with matched filtering on residuals reaching AUC 0.938 on DR25 and recovering 47 TESS planets zero-shot.

    arXiv 2026
    2026.04
    ExoNet: Calibrated Multimodal Deep Learning for TESS Exoplanet Candidate Vetting Using Phase-Folded Light Curves, Stellar Parameters, and Multi-Head Attention

    Late fusion of light-curve CNN features with attention and stellar parameters, calibrated by temperature scaling.

    arXiv 2026
    2026.03
    RAVENAutomatic Search for Transiting Planets in TESS-SPOC FFIs with RAVEN: Over 100 Newly Validated Planets and Over 2000 Vetted Candidates

    Machine learning classifiers trained on injected simulations combined with statistical validation for TESS FFI candidates.

    arXiv 2026
    2025.11
    WATSON-Net: Vetting, Validation, and Analysis of Transits from Space Observations with Neural Networks

    Multi-branch network for transit vetting integrated into the SHERLOCK pipeline.

    arXiv 2025
    2025.09
    Exoplanetary Atmospheres Retrieval via a Quantum Extreme Learning Machine

    Quantum extreme learning machine retrieval executed on IBM quantum hardware.

    arXiv 2025
    2025.09
    Identifying Exoplanets with Deep Learning: A CNN and RNN Classifier for Kepler DR25 and Candidate Vetting

    CNN, bidirectional LSTM and attention classifier for Kepler DR25 transit signals.

    arXiv 2025
    2025.08
    Towards the Habitable Worlds Observatory: Retrieval of Reflection Spectra from Evolving Earth Analogues Using 1D CNNs

    1D CNN retrieval of composition and planetary properties from HWO-like reflected-light spectra.

    arXiv 2025
    2025.08
    Supervised Machine Learning Methods with Uncertainty Quantification for Exoplanet Atmospheric Retrievals from Transmission Spectroscopy

    Benchmark of PLS, SVM, KNN, tree ensembles and XGBoost on Ariel-like transmission spectra.

    arXiv 2025
    2025.06
    DART-Vetter: A Deep LeARning Tool for Automatic Triage of Exoplanet Candidates

    Compact CNN on phase-folded light curves that triages TESS and Kepler threshold crossing events.

    arXiv 2025
    2025.02
    FASTERNear-instantaneous Atmospheric Retrievals and Model Comparison with FASTER

    Neural ratio estimation for marginal posteriors and amortized Bayesian model comparison, applied to WASP-39b.

    arXiv 2025
    2025.02
    Exoplanet Transit Candidate Identification in TESS Full-Frame Images via a Transformer-Based Algorithm

    Convolutional embeddings and transformer encoder applied to flux, centroid and background series of 4.1 million light curves.

    arXiv 2025
    2024.10
    FMPE RetrievalFlow Matching for Atmospheric Retrieval of Exoplanets: Where Reliability Meets Adaptive Noise Levels

    Flow matching posterior estimation with importance sampling to verify retrievals and estimate the evidence.

    arXiv 2024
    2024.01
    FlopPITy: Enabling Self-consistent Exoplanet Atmospheric Retrievals with Machine Learning

    Sequential neural posterior estimation with neural spline flows for self-consistent atmospheric retrievals.

    arXiv 2024
    2023.11
    AESTRA: Deep Learning for Precise Radial Velocity Estimation in the Presence of Stellar Activity

    Self-supervised spectrum autoencoder and RV estimator that separate Doppler shifts from activity-induced line-profile changes.

    AJ 2024
    2023.01
    SBI-EARNeural Posterior Estimation for Exoplanetary Atmospheric Retrieval

    Normalizing-flow posterior estimation for exoplanet atmospheric retrieval.

    A&A 2023
    2022.04
    HSR4HCIHalf-sibling Regression Meets Exoplanet Imaging: PSF Modeling and Subtraction Using a Flexible, Domain Knowledge-driven, Causal Framework

    Data-driven PSF subtraction for high-contrast imaging based on half-sibling regression.

    A&A 2022
    2021.11
    ExoMiner: A Highly Accurate and Explainable Deep Learning Classifier that Validates 301 New Exoplanets

    Multi-branch network that mimics expert vetting diagnostics and validates 301 Kepler planets.

    ApJ 2022
    2021.01
    BNN ChaosA Bayesian Neural Network Predicts the Dissolution of Compact Planetary Systems

    Bayesian neural network that predicts instability times of compact planetary systems.

    PNAS 2021
    2021
    MARGEAccurate Machine-learning Atmospheric Retrieval via a Neural-network Surrogate Model for Radiative Transfer

    Neural surrogate for radiative transfer that accelerates exoplanet atmospheric retrieval.

    PSJ 2021
    2020.07
    SPOCKPredicting the Long-term Stability of Compact Multiplanet Systems

    Gradient boosted classifier on short N-body integrations that predicts multiplanet stability.

    PNAS 2020
    2019.04
    Astronet-TriageIdentifying Exoplanets with Deep Learning III: Automated Triage and Vetting of TESS Candidates

    Neural networks for triage and vetting of TESS transit signals.

    AJ 2019
    2018.06
    HELASupervised Machine Learning for Analysing Spectra of Exoplanetary Atmospheres

    Random forest atmospheric retrieval for exoplanet transmission spectra.

    Nature Astronomy 2018
    2017.06
    Pearson Exoplanet AISearching for Exoplanets Using Artificial Intelligence

    Neural networks that detect transit signals in simulated and Kepler light curves.

    MNRAS 2018

    Cosmology and Large-Scale Structure

    47 entries
    2026.11
    Self-Interacting Neutrinos in NEDE and DRMD Cosmologies: Posteriors, profiles and evidence using CLiENT

    An actively trained neural emulator approximates the joint cosmological and nuisance-parameter log posterior using roughly 300,000 likelihood evaluations per dataset.

    arXiv 2026
    2026.09
    Neural Posterior Estimation for Tomographic Weak Lensing Mass Mapping

    Amortised network that maps multiband images directly to a variational posterior over tomographic shear and convergence, validated on LSST DESC DC2 images.

    arXiv 2026
    2026.07
    From Dark Matter to Galaxies: Halo-Free Mock Generation via Conditional Point-Cloud Diffusion

    Point-cloud diffusion that generates galaxy positions and star formation rates from IllustrisTNG dark matter fields.

    arXiv 2026
    2026.06
    Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Optimized wCDM Simulation-based Inference with Weak Lensing Map-level Hybrid Statistics

    Hybrid power spectrum and neural summaries that compress DES Y3 lensing maps to seven statistics.

    arXiv 2026
    2026.06
    Field-level Weak Lensing Cosmology with 60 Simulations Using Multifidelity Simulation-based Inference

    Pretraining on lognormal mocks and fine-tuning on 60 N-body simulations for KiDS-Legacy field-level inference.

    arXiv 2026
    2026.06
    Simulation-Based Inference for Cluster Cosmology with Set-Based Neural Network Architectures

    Set-based networks and autoregressive flows on eRASS1-like cluster catalogues.

    arXiv 2026
    2026.06
    JADEJoint Inference of Weak Lensing Convergence Map and Cosmology with Diffusion Models

    Pixel-space diffusion transformer that treats cosmological parameters as tokens and samples convergence maps and parameters jointly from noisy shear fields.

    arXiv 2026
    2026.02
    C3NN-SBI: Learning Hierarchies of N-Point Statistics from Cosmological Fields with Physics-Informed Neural Networks

    Couples a correlator convolutional network whose summaries map to given N-point orders with simulation-based inference on DES Y3-like convergence maps.

    arXiv 2026
    2025.12
    CLiENT: A New Tool for Emulating Cosmological Likelihoods Using Deep Neural Networks

    Emulates the likelihood of a data set directly with neural networks, giving an auto-differentiable surrogate that matches true-likelihood credible intervals to within 0.1 sigma using fewer than 20,000 evaluations.

    JCAP 2026
    2025.11
    arXiv 2025
    2025.11
    Fast End-to-End Framework for Cosmological Parameter Inference from CMB Data Using Machine Learning

    Combines analytical blind separation of foregrounds with neural network parameter inference.

    arXiv 2025
    2025.11
    Deep-learning Mitigation of Foregrounds and Beam Effects in 21-cm Intensity Mapping Using Hybrid Frequency Differencing and PCA

    Two-channel UNet with frequency-differenced and PCA-cleaned inputs for HI reconstruction under realistic beams.

    arXiv 2025
    2025.11
    The Shear-to-Cosmology Paradigm I. Hybrid Field-Level and Simulation-Based Framework for Weak Lensing Surveys

    Maps observed shear fields directly to cosmological parameters, roughly doubling the figure of merit of convergence-based inference on CSST-like mocks.

    arXiv 2025
    2025.09
    21cmLSTM / 21cmKANEmulating Global 21 cm Cosmology Observations from the Lunar Far Side to Achieve Quick and Reliable Physical Constraints

    LSTM and Kolmogorov-Arnold network emulators of the global 21-cm signal for Bayesian inference.

    arXiv 2025
    2025.09
    Exploring the Early Universe with Deep Learning

    Benchmark of deep learning models that recover the neutral hydrogen fraction from 2D 21-cm power spectra.

    arXiv 2025
    2025.06
    Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: wCDM Cosmology from Simulation-based Inference with Persistent Homology on the Sphere

    Spherical persistent homology summaries with neural compression and likelihood estimation on DES Y3 lensing maps.

    arXiv 2025
    2024.12
    Nonlinear Reconstruction of 21cm Global Signal from 21cm Power Spectrum with Artificial Neural Networks

    Neural network that predicts the global 21-cm signal from power spectrum measurements under SKA-like noise.

    arXiv 2024
    2024.09
    Simulation-based Inference Benchmark for Weak Lensing Cosmology

    Compares simulation budgets of explicit and implicit full-field inference for LSST Y10-like convergence maps.

    arXiv 2024
    2024.07
    Optimal Neural Summarisation for Full-Field Weak Lensing Cosmological Implicit Inference

    Compares neural compression losses against an HMC full-field reference with a differentiable lognormal simulator.

    arXiv 2024
    2023.09
    21cmEMU: An Emulator of 21cmFAST Summary Observables

    Neural emulator of 21cmFAST power spectra and global signals.

    MNRAS 2024
    2023.07
    Capse.jl: Efficient and Auto-differentiable CMB Power Spectra Emulation

    Julia neural emulator of CMB power spectra for gradient-based samplers.

    OJAp 2024
    2023.06
    In Search of Global 21-cm Signal Using Artificial Neural Network in Light of ARCADE 2

    Neural network that extracts global 21-cm parameters from antenna temperatures with foregrounds and ionospheric distortion.

    EPJC 2025
    2022.04
    CosmoGraphNetLearning Cosmology and Clustering with Cosmic Graphs

    Graph neural networks on galaxy catalogues for cosmological parameter inference.

    ApJ 2022
    2022.03
    DeepLSS: Breaking Parameter Degeneracies in Large-scale Structure with Deep Learning Analysis of Combined Probes

    Deep learning analysis of combined weak lensing and galaxy clustering maps.

    PRX 2022
    2022.03
    LINNA: Likelihood Inference Neural Network Accelerator

    Neural network emulation of the likelihood for accelerated cosmological parameter inference.

    JCAP 2023
    2022
    21cmVAE: A Very Accurate Emulator of the 21 cm Global Signal

    Variational autoencoder emulator of the global 21-cm signal.

    ApJ 2022
    2021.11
    HaloGraphNetInferring Halo Masses with Graph Neural Networks

    Graph neural networks trained on CAMELS to infer halo masses from galaxy properties.

    ApJ 2022
    2021.11
    harmonicMachine Learning Assisted Bayesian Model Comparison: Learnt Harmonic Mean Estimator

    Learned harmonic mean estimator of the Bayesian evidence from posterior samples.

    arXiv 2021
    2021.11
    DeepMass CMBSingle Frequency CMB B-mode Inference with Realistic Foregrounds from a Single Training Image

    Moment networks trained on a single foreground image for CMB B-mode inference.

    MNRAS Letters 2021
    2021.07
    FieldIMNNsLossless, Scalable Implicit Likelihood Inference for Cosmological Fields

    Information maximising neural network compression of Gaussian and lognormal fields followed by simulation-based inference.

    JCAP 2021
    2020.12
    DeepSphere: A Graph-based Spherical CNN

    Graph convolutions on spherical sky maps such as HEALPix.

    ICLR 2020
    2020.11
    Stellar Streams SBITowards Constraining Warm Dark Matter with Stellar Streams through Neural Simulation-based Inference

    Neural ratio estimation for dark matter constraints from stream density variations.

    MNRAS 2021
    2020.11
    Moment NetworksSolving High-dimensional Parameter Inference: Marginal Posterior Densities & Moment Networks

    Networks that estimate marginal posterior moments for high-dimensional inference.

    arXiv 2020
    2020.11
    ForSE: A GAN-based Algorithm for Extending CMB Foreground Models to Subdegree Angular Scales

    GAN that adds small-scale non-Gaussian structure to Galactic dust foreground maps.

    ApJ 2021
    2020.10
    FlowPM: Distributed TensorFlow Implementation of the FastPM Cosmological N-body Solver

    Differentiable particle-mesh N-body simulation for gradient-based inference and hybrid ML models.

    Astron. Comput. 2021
    2020.10
    LDLLearning Effective Physical Laws for Generating Cosmological Hydrodynamics with Lagrangian Deep Learning

    Learned displacement layers that map dark matter simulations to baryonic fields.

    PNAS 2021
    2020.10
    deep21: A Deep Learning Method for 21cm Foreground Removal

    3D UNet ensemble that separates cosmological HI signal from radio foregrounds.

    JCAP 2021
    2020.06
    Symbolic DLDiscovering Symbolic Models from Deep Learning with Inductive Biases

    Graph networks distilled into symbolic expressions, including a dark matter halo example.

    NeurIPS 2020
    2019.08
    3DcosmoGANCosmological N-body Simulations: A Challenge for Scalable Generative Models

    Scalable 3D GAN for N-body density fields.

    Comput. Astrophys. Cosmol. 2019
    2019
    A&A 2019
    2018
    IMNNAutomatic Physical Inference with Information Maximizing Neural Networks

    Neural compression that maximises Fisher information for downstream inference.

    PRD 2018
    2017.06
    Comput. Astrophys. Cosmol. 2019

    Simulation-Based Inference

    10 entries
    2024.02
    LtU-ILI: An All-in-One Framework for Implicit Inference in Astrophysics and Cosmology

    Unified interface over sbi, pydelfi and lampe with validation and calibration tools.

    OJAp 2024
    2023.12
    nbi: The Astronomer's Package for Neural Posterior Estimation

    Neural posterior estimation package with featurizers for light curves and spectra.

    NeurIPS 2023 Workshop (DLIP)
    2023.06
    nautilus: Boosting Bayesian Importance Nested Sampling with Deep Learning

    Importance nested sampling with neural network emulation of the likelihood contours.

    MNRAS 2023
    2023.02
    TARPSampling-Based Accuracy Testing of Posterior Estimators for General Inference

    Coverage test that checks generative posterior estimators using samples alone.

    ICML 2023
    2022.11
    GPryFast and Robust Bayesian Inference Using Gaussian Processes with GPry

    Active-learning Gaussian process surrogate of the posterior for expensive cosmological likelihoods.

    JCAP 2023
    2022.07
    pocoMCAccelerating Astronomical and Cosmological Inference with Preconditioned Monte Carlo

    Sequential Monte Carlo sampler preconditioned with normalizing flows.

    MNRAS 2022
    2022.05
    margarineMarginal Post Processing of Bayesian Inference Products with Normalizing Flows and Kernel Density Estimators

    Normalizing flows and KDEs that learn nuisance-free marginal posteriors for marginal KL divergences and emulation.

    MNRAS 2023
    2021.11
    swyft TMNREFast and Credible Likelihood-Free Cosmology with Truncated Marginal Neural Ratio Estimation

    Truncated marginal neural ratio estimation applied to CMB cosmological inference.

    JCAP 2022
    2021.07
    swyftTruncated Marginal Neural Ratio Estimation

    Simulation-efficient marginal posterior estimation with prior truncation.

    NeurIPS 2021
    2019.03
    pydelfiFast Likelihood-free Cosmology with Neural Density Estimators and Active Learning

    Density-estimation likelihood-free inference with active simulation acquisition.

    MNRAS 2019

    High-Energy Astrophysics and Astroparticle Physics

    13 entries
    2026.10
    GammaLearnDeep Learning for Cherenkov Astronomy: Performance of GammaLearn on LST-1

    Applies the gamma-PhysNet CNN to LST-1 Crab Nebula observations, improving sensitivity over the random forest analysis below 1 TeV.

    arXiv 2026
    2026.09
    candelaA Differentiable Neural Surrogate for Photon Propagation in Neutrino Telescopes

    SIREN neural field that learns the IceCube photon Green function, predicting photon yield and arrival-time distributions for a point energy deposit and sensor.

    arXiv 2026
    2025.10
    Multivariate Time Series Classification of Fermi-Detected Gamma-Ray Transients Using Convolutional-Recurrent Neural Networks

    CNN-LSTM classifiers that separate GRBs, TGFs, solar flares and SGRs in Fermi-GBM light curves and flag outliers.

    arXiv 2025
    2025.09
    Unsupervised Machine Learning Classification of Gamma-ray Bursts Based on the Rest-frame Prompt Emission Parameters

    Unsupervised clustering of GRBs into types using rest-frame prompt emission properties.

    arXiv 2025
    2025.09
    ASIDTowards a Foundation Model for Astrophysical Source Detection: An End-to-End Gamma-Ray Data Analysis Pipeline Using Deep Learning

    U-Net detection with CNN classification and deep-ensemble flux estimation on Fermi-LAT and CTAO simulations.

    arXiv 2025
    2025.05
    A Robust Neural Determination of the Source-count Distribution of the Fermi-LAT Sky at High Latitudes

    Neural ratio estimation with spherical convolutions on 14 years of high-latitude Fermi-LAT photon maps.

    arXiv 2025
    2025.05
    Fast Low Energy Reconstruction Using Convolutional Neural Networks

    IceCube Collaboration CNNs that reconstruct energy, direction, vertex and flavour signature of GeV neutrinos in DeepCore for oscillation measurements.

    arXiv 2025
    2024.08
    Enhancing Events in Neutrino Telescopes through Deep Learning-Driven Super-Resolution

    Predicts hits on virtual optical modules between real ones to super-resolve neutrino telescope events, improving muon angular reconstruction.

    arXiv 2024
    2024.01
    DeepGRBDeep Learning for Gamma-Ray Bursts: A Data Driven Event Framework for X/Gamma-Ray Analysis in Space Telescopes

    Neural background estimation with FOCuS-Poisson trigger search on Fermi-GBM count rates.

    arXiv 2024
    2022.09
    GraphNeT IceCubeGraph Neural Networks for Low-Energy Event Classification & Reconstruction in IceCube

    Point-cloud GNN that classifies and reconstructs GeV-scale neutrino events in IceCube.

    JINST 2022
    2021.10
    Fermi GCE SBIA Neural Simulation-based Inference Approach for Characterizing the Galactic Center γ-ray Excess

    Normalizing-flow posterior estimation on spherical Fermi-LAT maps with graph neural network summaries.

    PRD 2022
    2021.07
    GCE SCDExtracting the Galactic Center Excess' Source-count Distribution with Neural Nets

    Neural networks that estimate source-count distributions and flux fractions of gamma-ray templates.

    PRD 2021
    2020.06
    GCE BGCNNGalactic Center Excess in a New Light: Disentangling the γ-Ray Sky with Bayesian Graph Convolutional Neural Networks

    Bayesian graph CNNs on HEALPix maps that separate point-source and smooth contributions to the Fermi Galactic Center Excess.

    PRL 2020

    Gravitational Waves

    21 entries
    2026.11
    Deep-Learning-Assisted Bayesian Inference for Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals

    Deep learning acceleration of Bayesian parameter inference for EMRI signals.

    arXiv 2026
    2026.10
    Scalable and Sequential Inference of the Neutron Star Equation of State with the Einstein Telescope

    Normalizing-flow stacking of single-event posteriors with GPU sequential Monte Carlo for EOS inference.

    arXiv 2026
    2026.09
    BilbyFlow: User-Friendly Neural Posterior Estimation for Gravitational-Wave Astronomy

    Adds neural posterior estimation to Bilby, analysing 38 high-mass GWTC-3 events with a median importance-sampling efficiency of 7 percent.

    arXiv 2026
    2026.09
    Searching for Gravitational Wave Echo with Group Equivariant Neural Posterior Estimation

    DINGO-based GNPE model for echo searches that analyses an O4a event in under 20 minutes on one GPU and finds no significant echo evidence.

    arXiv 2026
    2026.07
    AI-enabled Gravitational-waves Searches for Binary Neutron Stars at Optimal Sensitivity

    Neural network BNS search with heterodyned inputs that runs in real time on a single GPU.

    arXiv 2026
    2026.07
    Identifying Lensed Gravitational Waves with Physics-Informed Posterior Learning

    Fuses waveform features with neural posterior samples of common-source parameters to rank lensed multi-image signals against unrelated overlapping mergers in O4 data.

    arXiv 2026
    2026.04
    labradorA Domain-Optimized Machine-Learning Tool for Gravitational Wave Inference

    Neural posterior estimation with heterodyning, tailored coordinates and neural rescaling built on cogwheel, covering long signals with secondary masses below 10 solar masses.

    arXiv 2026
    2026.02
    Factorized Neural Posterior Estimation for Rapid and Reliable Inference of Parameterized Post-Einsteinian Deviation Parameters in Gravitational Waves

    Independent normalizing flows for each ppE deviation parameter give posteriors in about 0.4 s per event, a speedup of about 9 x 10^4 over MCMC.

    arXiv 2026
    2025.11
    DINGO-lensingIdentification and Characterization of Distorted Gravitational Waves by Lensing Using Deep Learning

    Extends DINGO to lensed signals, reducing parameter estimation and lensing Bayes factor computation from weeks to seconds while matching Bilby.

    arXiv 2025
    2024.09
    A Binary Neutron Star Merger Search Pipeline Powered by Deep Learning

    CNN on matched-filter SNR time series that detects BNS mergers and is robust to glitches.

    arXiv 2024
    2024.08
    A Machine-learning Classifier for the Postmerger Remnant of Binary Neutron Stars

    Gradient boosted trees trained on numerical-relativity simulations predict BNS merger outcomes from inspiral parameters.

    arXiv 2024
    2024.07
    DINGO-BNSReal-time Inference for Binary Neutron Star Mergers Using Machine Learning

    Prior-conditioned neural posterior estimation that infers all BNS parameters in about one second, including before merger.

    Nature 2025
    2024
    GWAK: Gravitational-Wave Anomalous Knowledge with Recurrent Autoencoders

    Semi-supervised anomaly detection for unmodeled gravitational-wave transients.

    MLST 2024
    2023.04
    Peregrine: Sequential Simulation-based Inference for Gravitational Wave Signals

    Truncated marginal neural ratio estimation for compact binary parameter estimation.

    PRD 2023
    2022.11
    flowMC: Normalizing Flow Enhanced Sampling Package for Probabilistic Inference in JAX

    MCMC with normalizing-flow global proposals, used for gravitational-wave parameter estimation.

    JOSS 2023
    2021.06
    DINGOReal-time Gravitational-wave Science with Neural Posterior Estimation

    Normalizing-flow posteriors for binary black hole events with inference times of about a minute.

    PRL 2021
    2021.02
    nessaiNested Sampling with Normalizing Flows for Gravitational-wave Inference

    Nested sampler that uses normalizing flows to propose new live points.

    PRD 2021
    2020.05
    DeepCleanNoise Reduction in Gravitational-wave Data via Deep Learning

    Neural network for low-frequency noise subtraction in gravitational-wave detectors.

    Phys. Rev. Res. 2020
    2019.09
    Nature Physics 2022
    2019.04
    Magic BulletConvolutional Neural Networks: A Magic Bullet for Gravitational-wave Detection?

    Critical evaluation of CNN-based gravitational-wave detection.

    PRD 2019

    Solar Physics and Heliophysics

    14 entries
    2026.11
    Identification of chromospheric dynamical signatures in the 2022 December 27 solar flare with DKIST

    A two-stage k-means pipeline groups 17,422 DKIST Ca II flare profiles into 19 spectral clusters and maps chromospheric kernel–halo structure.

    arXiv 2026
    2026.07
    FlareEUVA Deep Learning Framework for Predicting Solar EUV Irradiance During Significant Flares

    Attention model on 13 co-aligned SDO AIA and HMI channels that forecasts daily 6.5 nm EVE irradiance over three days for 33 significant flares.

    arXiv 2026
    2026.04
    Predicting Associations between Solar Flares and Coronal Mass Ejections Using SDO/HMI Magnetograms and a Hybrid Neural Network

    ViT and LSTM hybrid that predicts whether upcoming flares will be eruptive or confined.

    arXiv 2026
    2026.02
    Prediction of Major Solar Flares Using Interpretable Class-dependent Reward Framework with Active Region Magnetograms and Domain Knowledge

    CNN, CNN-BiLSTM and transformer models with class-dependent rewards for imbalanced M-class flare prediction.

    arXiv 2026
    2025.11
    JW-Flare: Accurate Solar Flare Forecasting Method Based on Multimodal Large Language Models

    Multimodal LLM fine-tuned with LoRA on magnetograms and textual magnetic parameters for 24-hour flare forecasts.

    arXiv 2025
    2025.10
    Solar Flare Forecasting with Foundational Transformer Models across Image, Video, and Time-series Modalities

    Compares SigLIP2, VideoMAE and Moirai2 on SDO/HMI magnetograms and GOES X-ray fluxes.

    arXiv 2025
    2025.08
    Surya: Foundation Model for Heliophysics

    366M-parameter spatiotemporal model trained on eight AIA channels and five HMI products at native resolution.

    arXiv 2025
    2023
    NF2Probing the Solar Coronal Magnetic Field with Physics-informed Neural Networks

    Physics-informed neural network extrapolation of force-free coronal magnetic fields from photospheric magnetograms.

    Nature Astronomy 2023
    2020.06
    Unsupervised MFBDLearning to Do Multiframe Blind Deconvolution Unsupervisedly

    Unsupervised neural multiframe blind deconvolution of solar observations.

    A&A 2021
    2019.05
    Solar Physics 2019
    2019.04
    SICONStokes Inversion Based on Convolutional Neural Networks

    Fully convolutional networks that invert Hinode Stokes maps into 3D thermodynamic and magnetic cubes.

    A&A 2019
    2019.03
    SDOMLA Machine-learning Data Set Prepared from the NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory Mission

    Curated 6.5 TB AIA, HMI and EVE dataset with baselines for EUV irradiance forecasting and instrument translation.

    ApJS 2019
    2017.06
    EnhanceEnhancing SDO/HMI Images Using Deep Learning

    Deconvolution and super-resolution of HMI continuum images and magnetograms.

    A&A 2018
    2017.03
    DeepVel: Deep Learning for the Estimation of Horizontal Velocities at the Solar Surface

    End-to-end network that estimates horizontal velocity fields from pairs of granulation images.

    A&A 2017

    Radio Astronomy

    15 entries
    2026.08
    YOLO-CharsRadio Galaxies Detection and Characterization Using Deep Learning Techniques

    Two-stage YOLO detection and characterisation network for flux, size and position angle on SKA SDC1 images.

    MNRAS 2026
    2025.09
    YOLO-CIANNA: Galaxy Detection with Deep Learning in Radio Data. II. Winning the SKA SDC2 Using a Generalized 3D-YOLO Network

    3D CNN detector for HI sources in SKA SDC2 hyperspectral cubes, extending the method that won SDC2.

    A&A 2026
    2025.06
    Simulating Realistic Radio Continuum Survey Maps with Diffusion Models

    Diffusion-generated radio galaxies assembled into sky models and imaged to mimic LoTSS pointings.

    arXiv 2025
    2025.03
    Classification of Radio Sources Through Self-Supervised Learning

    Self-supervised pretraining and deep clustering that classify LoTSS-DR2 radio galaxies into 12 morphology classes.

    arXiv 2025
    2024.10
    Simulating Images of Radio Galaxies with Diffusion Models

    Continuous-time diffusion model that generates radio galaxy images with control over flux and morphology.

    arXiv 2024
    2024.03
    R2D2The R2D2 Deep Neural Network Series Paradigm for Fast Precision Imaging in Radio Astronomy

    Series of residual networks for radio interferometric imaging.

    ApJS 2024
    2024
    StarWhisper-PulsarPulsar Candidate Classification with Multimodal Large Language Models

    Fine-tunes multimodal LLMs on diagnostic plots, text and numerical features to classify pulsar candidates, outperforming earlier machine learning classifiers after a few training epochs.

    NeurIPS 2024 Workshop (FM4Science)
    2023.12
    AIRIThe AIRI Plug-and-Play Algorithm for Image Reconstruction in Radio-Interferometry: Variations and Robustness

    Learned denoisers in proximal algorithms for radio-interferometric imaging with uncertainty quantification.

    MNRAS 2025
    2023.05
    Radio Galaxy Zoo FMRadio Galaxy Zoo: Towards Building the First Multipurpose Foundation Model for Radio Astronomy with Self-supervised Learning

    BYOL pretraining on unlabelled radio galaxy images for downstream classification.

    RASTI 2024
    2022
    radionetsDeep Learning-based Imaging in Radio Interferometry

    Neural networks that reconstruct radio images from incomplete visibility data.

    A&A 2022
    2021.11
    POLISHDeep Radio-interferometric Imaging with POLISH: DSA-2000 and Weak Lensing

    Super-resolution network for radio interferometric image reconstruction.

    MNRAS 2022
    2020.12
    Attention GatingAttention-gating for Improved Radio Galaxy Classification

    Attention-gated CNNs for FRI and FRII radio galaxy classification.

    MNRAS 2021
    2020.10
    Pulsar SGANPulsar Candidate Identification Using Semi-supervised Generative Adversarial Networks

    Semi-supervised GAN classifier for pulsar candidates with few labelled examples.

    MNRAS 2021
    2019.02
    FETCH: A Deep-learning Based Classifier for Fast Transient Classification

    CNN classifier for fast radio burst and single-pulse candidates.

    MNRAS 2020
    2019
    ClaRANRadio Galaxy Zoo: ClaRAN, a Deep Learning Classifier for Radio Morphologies

    Faster R-CNN detection and classification of radio source morphologies.

    MNRAS 2019

    Planetary Science and Small Bodies

    15 entries
    2026.09
    Multimodal-Multiresolution Foundation Model for Lunar Remote Sensing

    TerraMind-style model pretrained on nearly two million co-registered tile bundles over 11 modalities at 1 m and 100 m scales, evaluated on craters, irregular mare patches and ice prospectivity.

    arXiv 2026
    2026.07
    LunarFM: A Shared Multimodal Representation of the Moon's Surface

    Foundation model mapping 18 channels from six instruments on three lunar missions into one embedding for similarity search, resource mapping, mineral regression and geology classification.

    arXiv 2026
    2026.06
    Deep Learning-Based Lunar Crater Terrain Relative Navigation

    U-Net++ crater detector coupled with an extended Kalman filter for lunar landing navigation.

    arXiv 2026
    2026.04
    MOMO: Mars Orbital Model Foundation Model for Mars Orbital Applications

    Multi-sensor foundation model for Mars that combines representations from several orbital instruments for downstream remote sensing tasks.

    arXiv 2026
    2026.03
    LLaVA-LE: Large Language-and-Vision Assistant for Lunar Exploration

    LLaVA adapted to lunar remote sensing with LUCID, 96k panchromatic images paired with scientific captions and question-answer pairs.

    arXiv 2026
    2026.03
    VAD4Space: Visual Anomaly Detection for Planetary Surface Imagery

    Benchmarks unsupervised visual anomaly detection methods on lunar and Mars rover imagery, with PaDiM localising craters without labels.

    arXiv 2026
    2026.01
    Vision-Language Model for Accurate Crater Detection

    OWLv2 vision transformer fine-tuned on LRO images for lunar crater detection.

    arXiv 2026
    2026
    Lunar-Bench: Towards Evaluating Task-Oriented Reasoning of LLMs in Lunar Exploration Scenarios

    3,000 tasks derived from lunar mission procedures with Environmental Scenario Indicators for safety, efficiency, integrity and alignment; the best of 36 models reaches 47.8% against 65.1% for human experts.

    ACL Findings 2026
    2026
    Lunar-R1: Efficient Reasoning of Large Language Models for Lunar Exploration via Reinforcement Learning

    8B reasoning model trained by continued pretraining, SFT and RL, with Latent Difficulty Perception that cuts chain-of-thought tokens by 38.9%, the Lunar-QA benchmark and RK3588 NPU deployment.

    EMNLP 2026 Industry
    2026
    ThermoONetDeep Learning-enabled Size Estimation of Comets Indicates a More Dynamic Early Solar System

    DeepONet thermophysical model of water sublimation, fitted with simulated annealing to the water production curves of 28 comets to estimate nucleus sizes.

    Nat. Commun. 2026
    2025.08
    Deep Learning Framework for Crater Detection and Identification on the Moon and Mars

    Two-stage YOLO detection and CNN or ResNet-50 size classification of craters with an annotated dataset.

    arXiv 2025
    2025
    Lunar Twins: We Choose to Go to the Moon with Large Language Models

    Earth-Moon collaborative Chang'e large model with Yutu-Text and Yutu-VL small models, the Lunar_GenData multi-agent instruction workflow built on Chang'e mission data, and the Lunar_Eval suite.

    ACL Findings 2025
    2023.04
    A Flexible Deep Learning Crater Detection Scheme Using Segment Anything Model (SAM)

    Zero-shot crater segmentation with SAM on lunar and Martian images and DEMs.

    Icarus 2024
    2022.08
    AstroVision: Towards Autonomous Feature Detection and Description for Missions to Small Bodies Using Deep Learning

    115,970 annotated real images of 16 small bodies for keypoint detection and description benchmarks.

    Acta Astronaut. 2023
    2018.03
    DeepMoonLunar Crater Identification via Deep Learning

    CNN crater detection on lunar digital elevation maps, transferred to Mercury.

    Icarus 2019

    Datasets

    5 entries

    Observational Datasets

    2 entries
    2024.12
    Multimodal UniverseThe Multimodal Universe: Enabling Large-Scale Machine Learning with 100 TB of Astronomical Scientific Data

    Images, spectra, time series and catalogs for hundreds of millions of objects, distributed as Hugging Face datasets with benchmark tasks.

    NeurIPS 2024 (Datasets and Benchmarks)
    2018.10
    PLAsTiCCThe Photometric LSST Astronomical Time-series Classification Challenge (PLAsTiCC): Data Set

    Simulated LSST multi-band light curves for transient and variable classification.

    arXiv 2018

    Simulation Datasets

    3 entries
    2024.12
    The Well: A Large-Scale Collection of Diverse Physics Simulations for Machine Learning

    15 TB across 16 physics simulation datasets, including MHD and supernova explosion simulations.

    NeurIPS 2024 (Datasets and Benchmarks)
    2020.10
    CAMELSThe CAMELS Project: Cosmology and Astrophysics with MachinE Learning Simulations

    4,233 cosmological simulations varying cosmological and feedback parameters, designed for training ML models.

    ApJ 2021
    2019.09
    QuijoteThe Quijote Simulations

    44,100 N-body simulations spanning more than 7,000 cosmological models, designed for information quantification and ML training.

    ApJS 2020

    Tools and Libraries

    66 entries
    AspGapinfers red giant stellar parameters and abundances from Gaia XP spectra.
    astroMLprovides machine learning and statistics routines for astronomy.
    astrorapidclassifies transients in real time with recurrent neural networks.
    avocadoclassifies photometric transients with Gaussian process augmentation and boosted trees.
    BLISSperforms Bayesian light source separation with amortized variational inference.
    ctlearntrains deep learning models for imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescope event reconstruction.
    D3Memulates N-body displacement fields with deep learning.
    DASHclassifies supernova spectra with deep learning.
    Deep-HiTSclassifies HiTS transient candidates with convolutional neural networks.
    deep-potentialrecovers gravitational potentials from phase-space snapshots with normalizing flows.
    DeepBenchgenerates simple physics and astronomy benchmark datasets for machine learning.
    DeepDISCapplies Detectron2 instance segmentation to astronomical source detection.
    DeepMergeclassifies high-redshift merging galaxies with CNNs.
    DeepSourcedetects point sources in radio images with deep learning.
    E2CNNRadGalclassifies radio galaxies with group-equivariant CNNs.
    Finkis an LSST alert broker with machine learning classification modules.
    fink-sciencehosts the science modules and classifiers run on the Fink alert stream.
    FLEETselects superluminous supernova and tidal disruption event candidates for follow-up.
    FlexCodeestimates conditional densities for photometric redshifts.
    Galaxy Zoo Bayesian CNNtrains Bayesian CNNs with active learning on Galaxy Zoo labels.
    galaxy-datasetsloads Galaxy Zoo datasets for PyTorch training.
    Galaxy10 DECaLSprovides 17,736 DECaLS g, r, z galaxy images in 10 morphology classes with Galaxy Zoo labels (Zenodo).
    GalaxyGANrecovers features from degraded galaxy images with GANs.
    GPzestimates photometric redshifts with sparse Gaussian processes.
    Gravity Spyclassifies LIGO detector glitches with citizen science and machine learning.
    herculensperforms differentiable strong lens modeling in JAX.
    InstrumentToInstrumenttranslates solar observations between instruments.
    IrregularTimeSeriesAutoencoderlearns recurrent autoencoder features from irregularly sampled light curves.
    jax-cosmoprovides differentiable cosmology computations in JAX.
    jax-lensingimplements probabilistic mass mapping with neural score estimation (paper).
    JaxPMimplements a differentiable particle-mesh N-body solver in JAX.
    jimperforms gravitational-wave parameter estimation in JAX with flow-enhanced sampling.
    lampeimplements neural ratio and posterior estimation for likelihood-free inference in PyTorch.
    lc_classifierclassifies light curves in the ALeRCE broker.
    LIAclassifies microlensing events with random forests.
    light-curveextracts light-curve features for transient and variable classification.
    magnifymodels AGN light curves with Gaussian process and neural network tools.
    map2maptrains field-to-field neural networks on cosmological simulations.
    MCCDmodels the PSF across multiple CCDs with data-driven methods.
    ml4gwprovides PyTorch utilities for gravitational-wave machine learning.
    ML_GBT_SETIsearches Green Bank Telescope data for technosignatures with machine learning.
    MLZestimates photometric redshifts with TPZ random forests.
    Morpheusperforms pixel-level morphological classification of astronomical images.
    MuyGPySprovides scalable Gaussian process estimation used for star-galaxy separation.
    ParSNIPbuilds generative models of transient light curves with physics-enabled deep learning.
    PICSclassifies pulsar candidates with image pattern recognition.
    pmwdimplements differentiable particle-mesh N-body simulation in JAX.
    PySRperforms symbolic regression for interpretable scientific models (paper).
    QuasarNETclassifies quasar spectra and estimates redshifts with a convolutional network.
    ramjetdetects transits and microlensing events in light curves with neural networks.
    RESSPECTapplies active learning to supernova spectroscopic follow-up.
    sbiimplements neural posterior, likelihood and ratio estimation (JOSS).
    ShapeDeconvdeconvolves galaxy images with deep learning for shape measurement.
    SimBIGperforms simulation-based inference of galaxy clustering.
    single_pulse_mlclassifies single-pulse and fast radio burst candidates with deep learning.
    star-galaxy CNNseparates stars and galaxies with CNNs.
    StarNetinfers stellar parameters from spectra with CNNs.
    StarWhispercollects code, data and model weights for astronomy language models, light-curve and spectral classification and autonomous telescope observing, with research skills for AI coding agents.
    sunbirdemulates galaxy clustering summary statistics with neural networks.
    Superphotclassifies supernovae from photometric light curves.
    Superphot+fits and classifies supernova light curves.
    SuperRAENNclassifies supernova light curves with recurrent autoencoder features.
    The Cannonprovides a data-driven model for stellar labels from spectra.
    The Paynefits stellar spectra with neural network spectral emulators.
    transomalydetects anomalous transients in real time.
    xValencodes real numbers as continuous embeddings for language models on scientific data.

    Communities and Groups

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    Polymathic AIdevelops AstroCLIP, AION-1, MPP, the Multimodal Universe and The Well.
    UniverseTBDdevelops AstroLLaMA, AstroPT and AstroLLaVA.
    AstroMLabdevelops the AstroMLab benchmark and the AstroSage models.
    ML4GWdevelops machine learning pipelines for gravitational-wave astronomy.