24–28 Aug 2026
Leiden University
Europe/Zurich timezone

Fast Neural Emulation of Cosmological Structure Formation with TUNeS

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20m
Gorlaeus gebouw (Leiden University)

Gorlaeus gebouw

Leiden University

Einsteinweg 55, 2333 CC Leiden
Talk Methods / Statistical Inference / Machine Learning

Speaker

Yuqi Kang (Beijing Normal University)

Description

We present TUNeS (Temporal UNet emulator for Structure formation), a fast neural emulator for cosmological structure formation across redshift. Starting from the initial particle distribution, TUNeS predicts the evolved matter density field with a two-stage architecture that combines particle-based large-scale evolution and grid-based nonlinear refinement. The framework is designed to be naturally extendable to larger volumes through stitching, enabling continuous structure generation over extended spatial regions. Trained on only a small number of N-body simulations, TUNeS achieves good accuracy in both the power spectrum and non-Gaussian statistics, while requiring only about 25 seconds to generate a 256^3 grids density field from initial conditions on a single GPU. These features make it a promising approach for fast mock production and other applications requiring many high-fidelity matter realizations.

Author

Yuqi Kang (Beijing Normal University)

Co-author

Prof. Bin Hu (Beijing Normal University)

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