用扩散模型学习暗物质3D分布,提升弱引力透镜重建精度。
Generative Diffusion Priors for 3D Mapping of the Dark Universe

- 基于宇宙模拟构建数据集,训练扩散模型作为暗物质先验
- 在真实模拟中实现比基线方法更高的2D/3D重建准确率
- 能捕捉丝状结构且对宇宙学参数变化鲁棒,适合高精度宇宙学研究
从弱引力透镜观测重建暗物质的三维分布是宇宙学中的核心但高度病态的逆问题。由于我们仅从单一视线上观测宇宙,且星系形状扭曲存在噪声、距离信息不确定,因此对三维物质场的有效恢复需依赖强先验假设。现有方法或采用手工设计的先验生成点估计,或使用神经集成近似贝叶斯不确定性,难以刻画宇宙网的非高斯、丝状结构。随着新一代高分辨率宇宙学模拟的出现,我们获得了远超解析模型的非线性结构形成统计知识。本文构建新数据集 $ exttt{Conicus3D}$,利用模拟数据训练数据驱动的扩散模型先验,以捕获暗物质在宇宙时空中完整的三维分布。结合近期即插即用的后验采样框架,我们将该先验与可微分的物理前向模型结合,应用于现代弱引力透镜调查的真实模拟。实验表明,该方法在2D和3D重建上显著优于基线,生成的后验样本统计特性与底层模拟高度一致,且对适度的宇宙学参数偏移保持鲁棒。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Reconstructing the three-dimensional distribution of dark matter from weak-lensing observations is a central but highly ill-posed inverse problem in cosmology. Unlike standard 3D reconstruction with multiple viewpoints, we observe the universe from a single line of sight, through noisy shape distortions of galaxies with uncertain distances, so meaningful recovery of the 3D matter field requires strong prior assumptions. Existing methods either produce point estimates with handcrafted priors or use neural ensembles for approximate Bayesian uncertainty, and struggle to capture the non-Gaussian, filamentary structure of the cosmic web. With the advent of new high-resolution cosmological simulations, we now have an alternative source of prior knowledge that captures the nonlinear statistics of structure formation with far greater fidelity than analytic prescriptions. We leverage these simulations to build a new dataset $\texttt{Conicus3D}$, which enables us to learn a data-driven diffusion-model prior capturing the full 3D distribution of dark matter structure across cosmic time. Building on recent plug-and-play approaches, we modify a diffusion-based posterior sampling scheme to the 3D weak-lensing setting, combining the learned prior with a differentiable physical forward model. On realistic simulations targeting a modern weak lensing survey, our approach yields substantially improved 2D and 3D reconstruction accuracy over baseline methods. Moreover, it produces posterior samples whose statistics closely track the underlying simulations, while remaining robust to moderate shifts in cosmology.
Thank you to arXiv for use of its open access interoperability. PaperDance 不是 arXiv 官方产品;中文卡片由大模型生成,请以原文为准。