Teaching dark matter simulations to speak the halo language

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Main Authors: Pandey, Shivam, Lanusse, Francois, Modi, Chirag, Wandelt, Benjamin D.
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Published: 2024
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author Pandey, Shivam
Lanusse, Francois
Modi, Chirag
Wandelt, Benjamin D.
author_facet Pandey, Shivam
Lanusse, Francois
Modi, Chirag
Wandelt, Benjamin D.
contents We develop a transformer-based conditional generative model for discrete point objects and their properties. We use it to build a model for populating cosmological simulations with gravitationally collapsed structures called dark matter halos. Specifically, we condition our model with dark matter distribution obtained from fast, approximate simulations to recover the correct three-dimensional positions and masses of individual halos. This leads to a first model that can recover the statistical properties of the halos at small scales to better than 3% level using an accelerated dark matter simulation. This trained model can then be applied to simulations with significantly larger volumes which would otherwise be computationally prohibitive with traditional simulations, and also provides a crucial missing link in making end-to-end differentiable cosmological simulations. The code, named GOTHAM (Generative cOnditional Transformer for Halo's Auto-regressive Modeling) is publicly available at \url{https://github.com/shivampcosmo/GOTHAM}.
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spellingShingle Teaching dark matter simulations to speak the halo language
Pandey, Shivam
Lanusse, Francois
Modi, Chirag
Wandelt, Benjamin D.
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
We develop a transformer-based conditional generative model for discrete point objects and their properties. We use it to build a model for populating cosmological simulations with gravitationally collapsed structures called dark matter halos. Specifically, we condition our model with dark matter distribution obtained from fast, approximate simulations to recover the correct three-dimensional positions and masses of individual halos. This leads to a first model that can recover the statistical properties of the halos at small scales to better than 3% level using an accelerated dark matter simulation. This trained model can then be applied to simulations with significantly larger volumes which would otherwise be computationally prohibitive with traditional simulations, and also provides a crucial missing link in making end-to-end differentiable cosmological simulations. The code, named GOTHAM (Generative cOnditional Transformer for Halo's Auto-regressive Modeling) is publicly available at \url{https://github.com/shivampcosmo/GOTHAM}.
title Teaching dark matter simulations to speak the halo language
topic Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.11401