arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 7

Mapping Dark-Matter Clusters via Physics-Guided Diffusion Models

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 Machine Learning
Oct 2

Gestalt: a meta-foundation model for astronomy

arXiv:2609.38312v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The Platonic Representation Hypothesis predicts that sufficiently scaled foundation models converge on a shared representation of the world. As each...

By Michael J. Smith, Shashwat Sourav