Domain adaptation techniques for improved cross-domain study of galaxy mergers

Autor:	Ćiprijanović, A., Kafkes, D., Jenkins, S., Downey, K., Perdue, G. N., Madireddy, S., Johnston, T., Nord, B.
Rok vydání:	2020
Předmět:	Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence Computer Science - Machine Learning
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
Popis:	In astronomy, neural networks are often trained on simulated data with the prospect of being applied to real observations. Unfortunately, simply training a deep neural network on images from one domain does not guarantee satisfactory performance on new images from a different domain. The ability to share cross-domain knowledge is the main advantage of modern deep domain adaptation techniques. Here we demonstrate the use of two techniques - Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD) and adversarial training with Domain Adversarial Neural Networks (DANN) - for the classification of distant galaxy mergers from the Illustris-1 simulation, where the two domains presented differ only due to inclusion of observational noise. We show how the addition of either MMD or adversarial training greatly improves the performance of the classifier on the target domain when compared to conventional machine learning algorithms, thereby demonstrating great promise for their use in astronomy. Comment: Accepted in: Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences - Workshop at the 34th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS); final version
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/2011.03591 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv