Large cosmological datasets have been probing the properties of our Universe and constraining the parameters of dark matter and dark energy with increasing precision. Deep learning techniques have shown potential to be smarter than — and greatly outperform — human-designed statistics.
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Haiman, Z. Learning from the machine. Nat Astron 3, 18–19 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-018-0623-9
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