Modeling Irregular Astronomical Time Series with Neural Stochastic Delay Differential Equations

Fuente: arXiv
Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Oh, YongKyung, Kam, Seungsu, Lim, Dong-Young, Kim, Sungil
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
Subjects:
Online Access:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866918424200871936
author Oh, YongKyung
Kam, Seungsu
Lim, Dong-Young
Kim, Sungil
author_facet Oh, YongKyung
Kam, Seungsu
Lim, Dong-Young
Kim, Sungil
contents Astronomical time series from large-scale surveys like LSST are often irregularly sampled and incomplete, posing challenges for classification and anomaly detection. We introduce a new framework based on Neural Stochastic Delay Differential Equations (Neural SDDEs) that combines stochastic modeling with neural networks to capture delayed temporal dynamics and handle irregular observations. Our approach integrates a delay-aware neural architecture, a numerical solver for SDDEs, and mechanisms to robustly learn from noisy, sparse sequences. Experiments on irregularly sampled astronomical data demonstrate strong classification accuracy and effective detection of novel astrophysical events, even with partial labels. This work highlights Neural SDDEs as a principled and practical tool for time series analysis under observational constraints.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2508_17521
institution arXiv
publishDate 2025
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Modeling Irregular Astronomical Time Series with Neural Stochastic Delay Differential Equations
Oh, YongKyung
Kam, Seungsu
Lim, Dong-Young
Kim, Sungil
Machine Learning
Astronomical time series from large-scale surveys like LSST are often irregularly sampled and incomplete, posing challenges for classification and anomaly detection. We introduce a new framework based on Neural Stochastic Delay Differential Equations (Neural SDDEs) that combines stochastic modeling with neural networks to capture delayed temporal dynamics and handle irregular observations. Our approach integrates a delay-aware neural architecture, a numerical solver for SDDEs, and mechanisms to robustly learn from noisy, sparse sequences. Experiments on irregularly sampled astronomical data demonstrate strong classification accuracy and effective detection of novel astrophysical events, even with partial labels. This work highlights Neural SDDEs as a principled and practical tool for time series analysis under observational constraints.
title Modeling Irregular Astronomical Time Series with Neural Stochastic Delay Differential Equations
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17521