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author Tenorio, Rodrigo
Williams, Michael J.
Bayley, Joseph
Messenger, Christopher
Demkin, Maggie
Reade, Walter
Koda, Jun
Yamakawa, Yoichi
Yamaguchi, Taiki
Abe, Kenshin
Achard, Chris
Bukhari, Habib S. T.
Shugaev, Maxim V.
Sokolov, Gleb
Yoshihara, Hiroshi
Debout, Vincent
Goulet, Sebastien
Tastet, Jean-Loup
Timiryasov, Inar
Ruchayskiy, Oleg
Kanonik, Dzianis
Seferbekov, Selim
Saito, Shohei
Sato, Ryotaro
Segawa, Shinsaku
Zhyvalkouski, Artsem
Uchida, Yusuke
Yokoi, Shingo
Sayed, Anjum
Yamashita, Isamu
Xing, Rui-Qi
Wang, Ziyue
author_facet Tenorio, Rodrigo
Williams, Michael J.
Bayley, Joseph
Messenger, Christopher
Demkin, Maggie
Reade, Walter
Koda, Jun
Yamakawa, Yoichi
Yamaguchi, Taiki
Abe, Kenshin
Achard, Chris
Bukhari, Habib S. T.
Shugaev, Maxim V.
Sokolov, Gleb
Yoshihara, Hiroshi
Debout, Vincent
Goulet, Sebastien
Tastet, Jean-Loup
Timiryasov, Inar
Ruchayskiy, Oleg
Kanonik, Dzianis
Seferbekov, Selim
Saito, Shohei
Sato, Ryotaro
Segawa, Shinsaku
Zhyvalkouski, Artsem
Uchida, Yusuke
Yokoi, Shingo
Sayed, Anjum
Yamashita, Isamu
Xing, Rui-Qi
Wang, Ziyue
contents We report results of a public data-analysis challenge, hosted on the open data-science platform Kaggle, to detect simulated continuous gravitational-wave signals (CWs). These are weak signals from rapidly spinning neutron stars that remain undetected despite extensive searches. The competition dataset consisted of a population of CW signals using both simulated and real LIGO detector data matching the conditions of actual CW searches. The competition attracted more than 1,000 participants to develop realistic CW search algorithms. We describe the top 10 approaches and discuss their applicability as a pre-processing step compared to standard CW-search approaches. For the competition's dataset, we find that top approaches can reduce the computing cost by 1 to 3 orders of magnitude at a false-dismissal probability comparable to standard CW searches. Additionally, the competition drove the development of new GPU-accelerated detection pipelines, which facilitated their adoption in other areas of gravitational-wave data analysis. We release the associated dataset, which constitutes the first open standardized benchmark for CW detection, to enable reproducible method comparisons and to encourage further developments toward the first detection of these elusive signals.
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spellingShingle Learning to detect continuous gravitational waves: an open data-analysis competition
Tenorio, Rodrigo
Williams, Michael J.
Bayley, Joseph
Messenger, Christopher
Demkin, Maggie
Reade, Walter
Koda, Jun
Yamakawa, Yoichi
Yamaguchi, Taiki
Abe, Kenshin
Achard, Chris
Bukhari, Habib S. T.
Shugaev, Maxim V.
Sokolov, Gleb
Yoshihara, Hiroshi
Debout, Vincent
Goulet, Sebastien
Tastet, Jean-Loup
Timiryasov, Inar
Ruchayskiy, Oleg
Kanonik, Dzianis
Seferbekov, Selim
Saito, Shohei
Sato, Ryotaro
Segawa, Shinsaku
Zhyvalkouski, Artsem
Uchida, Yusuke
Yokoi, Shingo
Sayed, Anjum
Yamashita, Isamu
Xing, Rui-Qi
Wang, Ziyue
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
Physics and Society
We report results of a public data-analysis challenge, hosted on the open data-science platform Kaggle, to detect simulated continuous gravitational-wave signals (CWs). These are weak signals from rapidly spinning neutron stars that remain undetected despite extensive searches. The competition dataset consisted of a population of CW signals using both simulated and real LIGO detector data matching the conditions of actual CW searches. The competition attracted more than 1,000 participants to develop realistic CW search algorithms. We describe the top 10 approaches and discuss their applicability as a pre-processing step compared to standard CW-search approaches. For the competition's dataset, we find that top approaches can reduce the computing cost by 1 to 3 orders of magnitude at a false-dismissal probability comparable to standard CW searches. Additionally, the competition drove the development of new GPU-accelerated detection pipelines, which facilitated their adoption in other areas of gravitational-wave data analysis. We release the associated dataset, which constitutes the first open standardized benchmark for CW detection, to enable reproducible method comparisons and to encourage further developments toward the first detection of these elusive signals.
title Learning to detect continuous gravitational waves: an open data-analysis competition
topic General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
Physics and Society
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06445