Inductive Biases in Field-Level Cosmological Inference from Galaxy Catalogs

📅 2026-09-08
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研究使用具有不同归纳偏置的机器学习模型,从模拟星系目录中推断物质密度参数Ω_m,比较了Deep Sets和图神经网络在处理速度和位置信息上的表现。
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We perform field-level likelihood-free inference of the matter density parameter $Ω_m$ from simulated galaxy catalogs using machine learning models with differing inductive biases. Using hydrodynamic simulations from CAMELS, we examine how observable choice and architecture govern cosmological information extraction. We consider galaxy positions and line-of-sight peculiar velocities, separately and jointly, and compare permutation-invariant Deep Sets, implemented with either multilayer perceptrons (MLPs) or Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs), to graph neural networks (GNNs), which explicitly encode spatial relations. We test in-distribution and out-of-distribution (OOD) performance across simulations with different subgrid galaxy-formation prescriptions. Deep Sets infer $Ω_m$ from velocities alone with mean relative errors of approximately $18\%$ in-distribution and $\sim25\%$ OOD, with KANs and MLPs achieving comparable performance. In contrast, the same set-based approach does not yield useful $σ_8$ predictions in either in-distribution or cross-suite tests. Adding positions does not improve Deep Sets, while GNNs infer $Ω_m$ with mean relative errors of about $10\%$ in-distribution and $10$--$17\%$ OOD. These results indicate that peculiar velocities provide the dominant source of $Ω_m$ information for set-based models in this setting, while spatial information is most effectively used by architectures that explicitly encode galaxy-galaxy relations. Because the velocity inputs are exact simulated peculiar velocities, applications to survey data will require validation under realistic velocity-measurement noise, selection effects, and survey geometry.
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cosmological inference
inductive biases
galaxy catalogs
matter density parameter
machine learning models
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field-level inference
inductive biases
Deep Sets
graph neural networks
peculiar velocities
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