arXiv:2607.00228astro-ph.IMastro-ph.HE2026-07被引 1

融合光变曲线、元数据和图像,提升天文瞬变源实时分类准确率

Leveraging Multimodality for Real-Time Classification of Transients and Variables found by the Zwicky Transient Facility

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  • 用多模态数据(光变、元数据、图像)构建实时分类模型
  • 早期分类宏F1得分达0.73,比仅用光变曲线提升40%
  • 适合高通量天文巡天的快速源筛选,尤其对早期识别有优势

现代时域巡天如齐克夫瞬变设施(ZTF)每晚产生数十万条警报,实时决策后续观测成为核心挑战。可靠早期分类对科学判断至关重要,但受限于稀疏光变曲线和类别混淆。本文基于ORACLE模型,提出ORACLE-2,融合光变曲线、元数据与图像,实现实时分层分类。在真实与模拟数据上验证,多模态融合显著提升性能。在ZTF亮瞬变源调查数据上,最优模型ORACLE-2 Omni的宏F1得分为0.73,较仅用光变与元数据模型提升11%,较仅光变模型提升40%,且早期阶段增益最明显。为适配将使警报量增加一个数量级的太空与时间遗产调查(LSST),我们在模拟的ELAsTiCC数据集上训练了光变+元数据版本,宏F1达0.88,较纯光变模型提升13%,媲美当前顶尖模型。我们还量化了性能与吞吐量的权衡,明确了多模态方法最有利的应用场景。结果表明,多模态融合可显著提升早期分类能力,为当前及未来高通量时域巡天的警报高效筛选提供可行方案。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Modern time-domain surveys such as the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) generate hundreds of thousands of alerts each night, making real-time decisions for follow-up observations a central challenge in time-domain astronomy. Robust early classification is crucial for making informed decisions, but is hindered by sparse light curves and degeneracies between classes. In this work, we leverage multimodality to substantially improve real-time classification and demonstrate the practicality of our approach by deploying our model on the ZTF alert stream. Building on the Online Ranked Astrophysical CLass Estimator (ORACLE), we introduce the ORACLE-2 models, which combine light curves, metadata, and images for real-time hierarchical classification. Using both real and simulated datasets, we show that incorporating additional modalities consistently improves classification performance. On observations from ZTF's Bright Transient Survey, our best-performing model, ORACLE-2 Omni, achieves a macro F1 score of 0.73 -- an improvement of up to 11% over models using light curves and metadata alone, and up to 40% over light-curve-only models, with the strongest gains realized at early times. To demonstrate applicability to the Legacy Survey of Space and Time, which will increase alert volume by more than an order of magnitude, we train a light curve + metadata variant on the simulated ELAsTiCC dataset. This model achieves a macro F1 score of 0.88, an improvement of up to 13% over the light-curve-only variant, matching the performance of other state-of-the-art models. Finally, we quantify the trade-offs between performance and throughput, identifying regimes where multimodal approaches offer the greatest benefit. These results show that combining multiple modalities improves early-time classification, enabling more effective triage of high-volume alert streams for current and future time-domain surveys.

天文分类多模态实时处理

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