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Main Authors: Chen, Yao, Luo, Rui, Wang, Chen, Zhang, Yong-Kun, Zhao, Shiqian, Lyu, Chengbing, Zheng, ZePeng, Lei, Hai, Zhou, DeJiang, Niu, Chenhui, Han, JinLin, Hobbs, George, Li, Di, Liang, Chengwei, Tan, Siyi, Tian, Ting
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.19249
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author Chen, Yao
Luo, Rui
Wang, Chen
Zhang, Yong-Kun
Zhao, Shiqian
Lyu, Chengbing
Zheng, ZePeng
Lei, Hai
Zhou, DeJiang
Niu, Chenhui
Han, JinLin
Hobbs, George
Li, Di
Liang, Chengwei
Tan, Siyi
Tian, Ting
author_facet Chen, Yao
Luo, Rui
Wang, Chen
Zhang, Yong-Kun
Zhao, Shiqian
Lyu, Chengbing
Zheng, ZePeng
Lei, Hai
Zhou, DeJiang
Niu, Chenhui
Han, JinLin
Hobbs, George
Li, Di
Liang, Chengwei
Tan, Siyi
Tian, Ting
contents Searching for fleeting radio transients like fast radio bursts (FRBs) with wide-field radio telescopes has become a common challenge in data-intensive science. Conventional algorithms normally cost enormous time to seek candidates by finding the correct dispersion measures, of which the process is so-called dedispersion. Here we present a novel scheme to identify FRB signals from raw data without dedispersion using Machine Learning (ML). Under the data environment for multibeam receivers, we train the EfficientNet model and achieve both exceeding 92% accuracy and precision in FRB recognition. We find that the searching efficiency can be significantly enhanced without the procedure of dedispersion compared with conventional softwares like TransientX and presto. Specifically, the impact of radio frequency interference (RFI) for single-beam and multibeam data has been investigated, and we find ML can naturally mitigate RFI under the multibeam environment. Finally, we validate the trained model on actual data from the current FRB surveys carried out by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope, which provides considerable potential for real implementation in the future.
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spellingShingle Towards DM-free search for Fast Radio Bursts with Machine Learning -- I. An implementation on multibeam data
Chen, Yao
Luo, Rui
Wang, Chen
Zhang, Yong-Kun
Zhao, Shiqian
Lyu, Chengbing
Zheng, ZePeng
Lei, Hai
Zhou, DeJiang
Niu, Chenhui
Han, JinLin
Hobbs, George
Li, Di
Liang, Chengwei
Tan, Siyi
Tian, Ting
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Searching for fleeting radio transients like fast radio bursts (FRBs) with wide-field radio telescopes has become a common challenge in data-intensive science. Conventional algorithms normally cost enormous time to seek candidates by finding the correct dispersion measures, of which the process is so-called dedispersion. Here we present a novel scheme to identify FRB signals from raw data without dedispersion using Machine Learning (ML). Under the data environment for multibeam receivers, we train the EfficientNet model and achieve both exceeding 92% accuracy and precision in FRB recognition. We find that the searching efficiency can be significantly enhanced without the procedure of dedispersion compared with conventional softwares like TransientX and presto. Specifically, the impact of radio frequency interference (RFI) for single-beam and multibeam data has been investigated, and we find ML can naturally mitigate RFI under the multibeam environment. Finally, we validate the trained model on actual data from the current FRB surveys carried out by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope, which provides considerable potential for real implementation in the future.
title Towards DM-free search for Fast Radio Bursts with Machine Learning -- I. An implementation on multibeam data
topic Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.19249