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  1. Gestalt: a meta-foundation model for astronomy

    Sep 29, 2026Michael J. Smith, Shashwat SouravAstronomical ImagesDimensionality Reduction

    AstroAI · Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian · UniverseTBD +1

  2. Scale-Vector Alignment: A Scale-Aware Framework for Spatially Resolved Morphological Similarity in Astronomical Images

    Sep 21, 2026Mengke Zhao, Guang-Xing Li, Keping Qiu +1Astronomical ImagesSimilarity and Metrics

    School of Astronomy and Space Science, Nanjing University, 163 Xianlin Avenue, Nanjing 210023, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China · Key Laboratory of Modern Astronomy and Astrophysics (Nanjing University), Ministry of Education, Nanjing 210023, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China · South-Western Institute for Astronomy Research, Yunnan University, Kunming 650500, People’s Republic of China

  3. Rethinking Domain Specialization for Open-Ended Scientific Reasoning in Astronomy Language Models

    Sep 15, 2026Vanessa Lama, Sanjay Das, Emily Herron +5Scientific DiscoveryAstronomical Images

    Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA · The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA · Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Königstuhl 17, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany +1

  4. More than half of recent astronomy papers are written with language-model assistance

    Sep 11, 2026Serat M. Saad, Yuan-Sen TingAstronomical Images

    Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University, 140 West 18th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA · Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics (CCAPP), The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA · Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Königstuhl 17, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany

  5. Inductive Biases in Field-Level Cosmological Inference from Galaxy Catalogs

    Sep 8, 2026James O. Baldwin, Shy Genel, Francisco Villaescusa-NavarroCosmologyAstronomical Images

    City University of New York Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave, New York, NY 10016 · Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute, 162 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10010, USA · Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory, Columbia University, 550 West 120th Street, New York, NY 10027, USA +1

  6. Estimating Uncertainty in Galaxy Morphology Classification

    Aug 9, 2026Kai Cheng, Ruoqi Wang, Qiong LuoAstronomical ImagesUncertainty

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, China

  7. PhysAttNet: Enhancing Predictive Performance in Industrial and Astrophysical Time Series via Physics-Informed Attention

    Aug 7, 2026Amal Saadallah, Julia Tjus, Petra Wiederkeher +1Physics-Informed LearningTime Series Forecasting

    Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany · Virtual Machining Group, TU Dortmund, Germnay · Faculty of Physics, Germany

  8. A General-Purpose VLM Can Teach an Astronomy Foundation Model to Better Recognize Galaxy Morphology

    Aug 3, 2026Dichang Zhang, Jiaqi Deng, Yixuan Shao +7Astronomical ImagesMorphology

    Department of Computer Science Stony Brook University Stony Brook, New York, USA · School of Computer Science University of Technology Sydney Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · Futurewei Technologies San Jose, California, USA

  9. AI's Capability in Assisting Scientific Research in Physics, Astrophysics, and Cosmology II: Project Planning and Proposal Evaluation

    Jul 28, 2026Jia Liu, Veena Krishnaraj, Kateryna Vovk +18Artificial Intelligence ScientistsPeer Review

  10. AI's Capability in Assisting Scientific Research in Physics, Astrophysics, and Cosmology I: Literature Review

    Jul 28, 2026Anamaria Hell, Kateryna Vovk, Veena Krishnaraj +18Literature ReviewScientific Discovery

    IPMU

  11. Monitoring Post-Disaster Urban Recovery Using High-Resolution SAR Time Series and Unsupervised Learning: Evidence from the 2023 Türkiye-Syria Earthquake

    Jul 27, 2026Luigi Russo, Deodato Tapete, Silvia Liberata Ullo +1Post-Disaster Damage AssessmentSynthetic Aperture Radar

    Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering, University of Pavia, 27100 Pavia, Italy · Italian Space Agency (ASI), Via del Politecnico, 00133 Roma RM, Italia · Department of Engineering, University of Sannio, 82100 Benevento, Italy

  12. Strong Gravitational Lensing Posterior Sampling in Pixel-Space Using Diffusion Models and Recurrent Inference Machines

    Jul 21, 2026Guillaume Payeur, Laurence Perreault-Levasseur, Gabriel Missael Barco +1Astronomical ImagesPosterior Sampling

    Department of Physics, Universit´e de Montr´eal, Montreal QC, Canada · 2Mila - Quebec AI Institute, Montreal QC, Canada · 3Ciela Institute, Institute for Astrophysics and Machine Learning, Montreal QC, Canada +3

  13. Co-addition and Subtraction of Undersampled Images

    Jul 20, 2026Matan Schlanger, Barak ZackayAstronomical ImagesSignal-To-Noise Ratio

    Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics Weizmann Institute of Science 76100 Rehovot, Israel

  14. Neural Posterior Estimation for Inferring Weak Lensing Shear

    Jul 10, 2026Tim White, Dingrui Tao, Camille Avestruz +2Astronomical Images

    Department of Statistics, University of Michigan · Department of Physics, University of Michigan

  15. Leveraging Multimodality for Real-Time Classification of Transients and Variables found by the Zwicky Transient Facility

    Jun 30, 2026Ved G. Shah, Nabeel Rehemtulla, Adam A. Miller +13Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope DataAstronomical Images

    Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208, USA · Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA), 1800 Sherman Ave, Evanston, IL 60201, USA · NSF-Simons AI Institute for the Sky (SkAI), 172 E. Chestnut St., Chicago, IL 60611, USA +8

  16. Scalable Bayesian Additive Models for Stellar Flare Detection via Amortized Gaussian Process Inference and Hidden Markov Models

    Jun 21, 2026Rodrigo Herrera, Vianey Leos-Barajas, Gwendolyn Eadie +2Gaussian ProcessHidden Markov Models

    Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto · Data Sciences Institute, University of Toronto · School of the Environment, University of Toronto +3

  17. Process-Reward Tactic Evolution for Long-Horizon Bioinformatics Workflows

    Jun 18, 2026Lingzhi Yang, Yubo Fan, Song Wu +1BioinformaticsAgentic Workflow Design

    Stony Brook University · Vanderbilt University · Brookhaven National Lab

  18. Querying an astronomical database using large language models: the ALeRCE text-to-SQL system

    Jun 16, 2026P. A. Estevez, J. Espejo-Moreira, S. Sanfeliu-Alvarez +10Text-To-SqlAstronomical Images

    Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Chile, Av. Tupper 2007, Santiago, Chile · Millennium Institute of Astrophysics (MAS), Nuncio Monseñor Sótero Sanz 100, Providencia, Santiago, Chile · Departamento de Astronomía, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 36D, Santiago, Chile +11

  19. Classification of Astronomical Spectra Using PCA-Compressed Flux and Inverse-Variance Features

    Jun 11, 2026Bruno Santos Meneses Barreto, Marcio EisencraftAstronomical ImagesHyperspectral Image

    Departamento de Engenharia de Telecomunicações e Controle, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo-SP

  20. Multi-Variable Stellar Parameter Estimation Using Residual Multitask Neural Networks

    Jun 11, 2026Bruno Santos Meneses Barreto, Marcio EisencraftAstronomical ImagesResidual Networks

    Escola Polit´ecnica, Universidade de S˜ao Paulo, SP

  21. Integral Field Unit Spectroscopy with One Fiber

    Jun 8, 2026Zehao Peng, Biprateep Dey, Chris J. Maddison +1Astronomical ImagesHyperspectral Image

    University of Toronto · 2Vector Institute

  22. Semi-supervised Source Detection in Astronomical Images: New Benchmark and Strong Baseline

    Jun 8, 2026Longhan Feng, Zihuang Cao, Ali Luo +5Unsupervised DetectionAstronomical Images

    School of Software Dalian University of Technology Dalian, China · National Astronomical Observatories Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, China · Research Institute of Highway Ministry of Transport Beijing, China

  23. Classifying galaxies in the Galaxy10 DECals dataset using Inception and Residual CNNs

    Jun 7, 2026Lanz Anthonee A. Lagman, Prospero C. Naval, Reinabelle C. ReyesConvolutional Neural NetworksAstronomical Images

    Data Science Program, College of Science, University of the Philippines - Diliman, Philippines · Department of Computer Science, College of Engineering, University of the Philippines - Diliman, Philippines · National Institute of Physics, College of Science, University of the Philippines - Diliman, Philippines

  24. Beyond Point Estimates: Benchmarking Uncertainty Quantification Methods on the AION-1 Astronomical Foundation Model

    Jun 5, 2026Karla Tame-Narvaez, Aleksandra Ćiprijanović, Shubhendu TrivediUncertainty QuantificationAstronomical Images

    Scientific Computing Division Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Batavia, IL 60510 · Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics University of Chicago Chicago, IL 60637 · Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Batavia, IL 60510 +1

  25. Hub-Aware Hybrid Search: Accelerating the Locally Aligned Ant Technique

    Jun 4, 2026Simone Vilardi, Reynier Peletier, Felipe Contreras +1Astronomical ImagesSearch Algorithms

    University of Groningen - Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence · University of Groningen - Kapteyn Astronomical Institute · Instituto de F´ısica y Astronom´ıa, Universidad de Valpara´ıso

  26. Identifying Gems from Roman RAPIDly

    Jun 3, 2026Karan Gandhi, Ashish A. Mahabal, Jacob E. Jencson +6Astronomical Images

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, India · Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA · Center for Data Driven Discovery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA +2

  27. Low-Pass Flow Matching

    Jun 1, 2026Francesco M. Ruscio, T. Konstantin RuschInterpolationMulti-Reference Image Generation

    ELLIS Institute Tübingen & · Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems & · AITHYRA +2

  28. Generative Diffusion Priors for 3D Mapping of the Dark Universe

    May 30, 2026Brandon Zhao, Diana Scognamiglio, Olivier Doré +1CosmologyDiffusion Priors

    Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, California Institute of Technology · Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology · Department of Physics, Duke University +1

  29. AstroRAG -- A Pagerank-Based Retrieval-Augmented Generation Pipeline for Question Answering in Astronomy

    May 24, 2026Zhifeng Wang, Jason Jingshi Li, Kaihao Zhang +1Astronomical ImagesQuestion

    Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia · Learning Machines Pty Ltd, Canberra, ACT, Australia

  30. Spectra as Language: Large Language Models for Scalable Stellar Parameter and Abundance Inference

    May 21, 2026Hai-Ling Lu, Yu-Yang Li, Yin-Bi Li +4Astronomical ImagesChemistry

    National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China · School of Astronomy and Space Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China +1

  31. Self-Supervised ConvLSTM for Fermi Large Area Telescope Transient Detection

    May 21, 2026Alberto Garinei, Stefano Speziali, Alessandro Vispa +11Cosmic-Ray Syntactic PoolUnsupervised Detection

    Idea-Re S.r.l., 06125, Perugia, Italy · bDipartimento Scienze Ingegneristiche, Università Guglielmo Marconi, 00193, Rome, Italy · cIstituto Nazionale Fisica Nucleare, sezione di Perugia, 06123, Perugia, Italy +1

  32. Velocityformer: Broken-Symmetry-Matched Equivariant Graph Transformers for Cosmological Velocity Reconstruction

    May 20, 2026Tilman Tröster, David Mirkovic, Veronika Oehl +1CosmologyAstronomical Images

    Department of Physics ETH Zürich

  33. Hyrax: An Extensible Framework for Rapid ML Experimentation and Unsupervised Discovery in the Era of Rubin, Roman, and Euclid

    May 18, 2026Aritra Ghosh, Drew Oldag, Michael Tauraso +29Astronomical ImagesUnsupervised

    Dept. of Astronomy & the DiRAC Institute, University of Washington, Box 351580, Seattle, WA 98195, USA · eScience Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, U.S.A. · School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA +6

  34. Accelerating Redshift-Conditioned Galaxy Image Synthesis with One-step Generative Modeling

    May 17, 2026Tianyue Yang, Sandro Tacchella, Xiao XueGenerative ModelsDiffusion Models

    The Center for Computational Science University College London · Cavendish Laboratory Kavli Institute for Cosmology University of Cambridge

  35. Diversified Residual Symbolic Regression

    May 15, 2026Koki Ikeda, Masahiro Nomura, Ryoki HamanoSymbolic RegressionKernel Ridge Regression

    CyberAgent Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan · Institute of Science Tokyo Meguro, Tokyo, Japan

  36. Beyond AI as Assistants: Toward Autonomous Discovery in Cosmology

    May 14, 2026Licong Xu, Thomas BorrettArtificial Intelligence ScientistsCosmology

    Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA, UK · Kavli Institute for Cosmology, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA, UK · Cavendish Astrophysics, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA, UK

  37. Quantifying the Reconstructability of Astrophysical Methods with Large Language Models and Information Theory: A Case Study in Spectral Reconstruction

    May 11, 2026Hsing Wen Lin, Zong-Fu SieReproducibilitySignal Reconstruction

    Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA · Michigan Institute for Data and AI in Society, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA · Independent Researcher, Taiwan

  38. Stellar Age Compression Reshapes Interpretations of the Milky Way Thick-Disk Formation History

    May 11, 2026Zhipeng ZhangAstronomical ImagesTimescale

    China Mobile Research Institute, Beijing 100053, China · China Mobile GBA (Greater Bay Area) Innovation Institute, Guangzhou 510656, China

  39. You Only Stack Once (YOSO): A Motion-Filtered, Deep-Learning Framework for Detecting Faint Moving Sources

    May 7, 2026Nitya Pandey, César Fuentes, Pedro Bernardinelli +15Astronomical ImagesMotion Estimation

    Departamento de Astronom´ıa, Universidad de Chile, Camino del Observatorio 1515, Las Condes, Santiago, Chile · Centro de Excelencia en Astrof´ısica y Tecnolog´ıas Afines (CATA), Chile · Dept. of Astronomy & the DiRAC Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, USA +11

  40. AstroAlertBench: Evaluating the Accuracy, Reasoning, and Honesty of Multimodal LLMs in Astronomical Classification

    May 7, 2026Claire Chen, Jiabao Sean Xiao, Shuze Daniel Liu +7Astronomical ImagesMultimodal Benchmarks

    1California Institute of Technology · 2Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 3Purdue University

  41. FluxFlow: Conservative Flow-Matching for Astronomical Image Super-Resolution

    May 5, 2026Shuhong Liu, Xining Ge, Ziteng Cui +8Hyperspectral Image Super-ResolutionAstronomical Images

    1The University of Tokyo · 2I2WM · 3Tohoku University +1

  42. StreakMind: AI detection and analysis of satellite streaks in astronomical images with automated database integration

    May 5, 2026Rafael Carrillo Navarro, René Duffard, Pablo García-Martín +3Satellite DataAstronomical Images

    Real Instituto y Observatorio de la Armada (ROA), Plaza de las Marinas s/n, 11100 San Fernando (Cádiz), Spain · Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía – CSIC, Apdo. 3004, 18080 Granada, Spain · Safran, 171 Bd de Valmy, 92700 Colombes, France +2

  43. Stable but Wrong: An Inference Limit in Galactic Archaeology

    Apr 30, 2026Zhipeng ZhangAstronomical ImagesStatistical Inference

    China Mobile Research Institute, Beijing 100053, China · China Mobile GBA (Greater Bay Area) Innovation Institute, Guangzhou 510656, China

  44. Star-Fusion: A Multi-modal Transformer Architecture for Discrete Celestial Orientation via Spherical Topology

    Apr 29, 2026May Hammad, Menatallh HammadMultiple Satellite SystemsSpatio-Temporal Transformers

    Department of Aerospace Informatics, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg

  45. Plausible but Wrong: A case study on Agentic Failures in Astrophysical Workflows

    Apr 28, 2026Shivam Rawat, Lucie FlekAgentic WorkflowsAgentic Evaluations

    Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology, University of Bonn, Germany; Lamarr Institute for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, Germany.

  46. Improving Radio Interferometry Imaging by Explicitly Modeling Cross-Domain Consistency in Reconstruction

    Apr 18, 2026Kai Cheng, Ruoqi Wang, Qiong LuoImage ReconstructionRadio Map Estimation

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)

  47. AstroSURE: Learning to Remove Noise from Astronomical Images Without Ground Truth Data

    Apr 18, 2026Omid Vaheb, Sebastien Fabbro, Stark DraperCanada-France-Hawaii Telescope DataAstronomical Images

    Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, 10 King’s College Road, Toronto, ON M5S 3G4, Canada · National Research Council Herzberg Astronomy an Astrophysics Research Centre, 5071 West Saanich Road, Victoria, BC V9E 2E7, Canada · Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada

  48. Stargazer: A Scalable Model-Fitting Benchmark Environment for AI Agents under Astrophysical Constraints

    Apr 17, 2026Xinge Liu, Terry Jingchen Zhang, Bernhard Schölkopf +2Astronomical ImagesArtificial Intelligence Agents

    University of Toronto · 2Vector Institute · 3Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen, Germany +1

  49. High-dimensional inference for the γγ-ray sky with differentiable programming

    Apr 9, 2026Siddharth Mishra-Sharma, Tracy R. Slatyer, Yitian Sun +1Cosmic-Ray Syntactic PoolAstronomical Images

    Faculty of Computing and Data Sciences, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA · 2The NSF AI Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions · Center for Theoretical Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA +2

  50. A plug-and-play approach with fast uncertainty quantification for weak lensing mass mapping

    Mar 23, 2026Hubert Leterme, Andreas Tersenov, Jalal Fadili +1CosmologyAstronomical Images

    Université Caen Normandie, ENSICAEN, CNRS, Normandie Univ, GREYC UMR 6072, F-14000 Caen, France · Université Paris-Saclay, Université Paris Cité, CEA, CNRS, AIM, 91191, Gif-sur-Yvette, France · Institutes of Computer Science and Astrophysics, Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH), Heraklion, Greece

  51. Denoising the Deep Sky: Physics-Based CCD Noise Formation for Astronomical Imaging

    Jan 30, 2026Shuhong Liu, Xining Ge, Ziying Gu +7Astronomical ImagesSingle-Photon Avalanche Diode

    The University of Tokyo · I2WM · Shanghai Astronomical Observatory +2

  52. Interpretable machine learning of halo gas density profiles: a sensitivity analysis of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations

    Dec 9, 2025Daniele Sorini, Sownak Bose, Mathilda Denison +1CosmologyAstronomical Images

    Institute for Computational Cosmology, Department of Physics, Durham University, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LE, United Kingdom · Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, 209 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6396, USA · Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Royal Observatory, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh, EH9 3HJ, United Kingdom +2

  53. The Platonic Universe: Do Foundation Models See the Same Sky?

    Sep 23, 2025UniverseTBD, :, Trinidad Borrell +11Astronomical ImagesFoundation Model

    Independent Researcher · AstroAI · Harvard-Smithsonian CfA +4