arXiv:2603. 22006v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Upcoming stage-IV surveys such as Euclid and Rubin will deliver vast amounts of high-precision data, opening new opportunities to constrain cosmological models with unprecedented accuracy.
By Hubert Leterme, Andreas Tersenov, Jalal Fadili, Jean-Luc Starck
arXiv:2606. 10023v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate posterior estimation is central to scientific inference, as uncertainties determine what can be reliably learned from observational data.
By Ludvig Doeser, Jens Jasche
arXiv:2606. 00803v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reconstructing the three-dimensional distribution of dark matter from weak-lensing observations is a central but highly ill-posed inverse problem in cosmology.
By Brandon Zhao, Diana Scognamiglio, Olivier Dor\'e, Katherine L. Bouman
The paper presents a fully automated method for reconstructing the surface mass density of galaxy clusters using photometry and gravitational lensing data. It introduces DarkClusters-15k, a benchmark dataset of 15,000 simulated clusters with paired mass and photometry maps across multiple redshifts and simulation frameworks. By training a diffusion prior on this dataset, the authors generate posterior samples constrained by weak- and strong-lensing observables, achieving accurate, physics‑guided reconstructions with well‑calibrated uncertainties in minutes.
By Diego Royo, Brandon Zhao, Adolfo Mu\~noz, Diego Gutierrez, Katherine L. Bouman
arXiv:2607. 27320v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Field-level inference of cosmological initial conditions from galaxy surveys requires a forward model that is simultaneously accurate in the non-linear regime, computationally efficient, and fully differentiable.
By Cooper Jacobus, Beatriz Tucci, Oliver Philcox
The paper demonstrates that a self‑supervised Vision Transformer (ViT) pretrained on a fast, low‑cost semi‑numerical simulator can produce data summaries that transfer across different simulators without retraining. In 21cm cosmology, the ViT—named SKATR—pretrained on 67,000 21cmFAST lightcones is applied unchanged to hydrodynamical Loreli II lightcones, enabling accurate inference of five astrophysical parameters with fewer radiative‑transfer simulations than a fully‑supervised baseline. SKATR remains accurate, informative, and calibrated even under realistic SKA antenna array noise, outperforming supervised models retrained on noisy data.
By Yannic Pietschke, Caroline Heneka, Ayodele Ore, Romain Meriot
arXiv:2512. 10222v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Semi-analytic models are a widely used approach to simulate galaxy properties within a cosmological framework, relying on simplified yet physically motivated prescriptions.
By Natal\'i S. M. de Santi, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, Pablo Araya-Araya, Gabriella De Lucia, Fabio Fontanot, Lucia A. Perez, Manuel Arn\'es-Curto, Violeta Gonzalez-Perez, \'Angel Chandro-G\'omez, Rachel S. Somerville, Tiago Castro
arXiv:2604. 01313v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: High-fidelity simulations and complex inverse problems, such as detector modeling and unfolding, are computationally intensive bottlenecks across subatomic physics, yet essential for accurate physical interpretation.
By Zeyu Xia, Tyler Kim, Trevor Reed, Judy Fox, Geoffrey Fox, Adam Szczepaniak
arXiv:2509. 23385v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Simulation-based inference (SBI) is transforming experimental sciences by enabling parameter estimation in complex non-linear models from simulated data.
By Pierre-Louis Ruhlmann, Michael Arbel, Florence Forbes, Pedro L. C. Rodrigues
Previous work has evaluated physics reasoning in foundation models using synthetic or semi-synthetic scenes and visual question-answering tasks. However, these benchmarks emphasize high-level events and lack the visual fidelity required to assess true low-level Newtonian understanding.
arXiv:2506.12045v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Accurate reconstruction of latent environmental fields from sparse, indirect observations is a fundamental challenge across scientific domain...
By Kazuma Kobayashi, Tapas Tripura, Jay Phil Yoo, Diab Abueidda, Seid Koric, Souvik Chakraborty, Syed Bahauddin Alam
arXiv:2606. 04165v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: High-precision calorimeter simulation at current and future colliders imposes rapidly growing computational demands, motivating the development of machine-learning surrogates for traditional Monte Carlo tools such as Geant4.
By Cheng Jiang, Sitian Qian, Kevin Pedro, Oz Amram, Huilin Qu, Maggie Voetberg