Path Measures for Stochastic Galaxy Formation on Layered Halo Graphs

arXiv:2603.15128 · astro-ph.GA, hep-ph · Submitted 2026-03-16 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.GA, hep-ph

Submitted: 2026-03-16

Updated: 2026-05-28

Code: https://github.com/DanengYang/GraphPathLikelihood

Terminology

• Calibration — 8× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Clustering — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Stochastic Dynamics — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Graph Construction — 5× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Graph Path Likelihood Model — 4× in this paper
• Diffusion Model — 3× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Benchmark — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative Model — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Inverse Problem — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Mass Segregation — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Pruning — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Abundance — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Diffusion Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Domain Shift — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Foundation Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Generative Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Gradient Flow — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Metallicity — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Normalizing Flow — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Normalizing Flows — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Optimal Transport — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Point Clouds — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Simulation-based Inference — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Hierarchical Galaxy Formation
• Galacticus: A Semi-Analytic Model of Galaxy Formation
• Physical Models of Galaxy Formation in a Cosmological Framework
• Galaxies in the EAGLE hydrodynamical simulation and in the Durham and Munich semi-analytical models
• A unified multi-wavelength model of galaxy formation
• First Results from the TNG50 Simulation: Galactic outflows driven by supernovae and black hole feedback
• The IllustrisTNG Simulations: Public Data Release
• Accelerated calibration of semi-analytic galaxy formation models
• A graph model for the clustering of dark matter halos
• The Cosmic Graph: Optimal Information Extraction from Large-Scale Structure using Catalogues
• $\texttt{Mangrove}$: Learning Galaxy Properties from Merger Trees
• Wiener Reconstruction of The Large Scale Structure
• Reconstructed Density and Velocity Fields from the 2MASS Redshift Survey
• Reconstructing the cosmic density field with the distribution of dark matter halos
• Reconstructing the Cosmic Velocity and Tidal Fields with Galaxy Groups Selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
• Reconstructing the Initial Density Field of the Local Universe: Method and Test with Mock Catalogs
• ELUCID - Exploring the Local Universe with reConstructed Initial Density field I: Hamiltonian Markov Chain Monte Carlo Method with Particle Mesh Dynamics
• ELUCID - Exploring the Local Universe with reConstructed Initial Density field III: Constrained Simulation in the SDSS Volume
• ERGO-ML I: Inferring the assembly histories of IllustrisTNG galaxies from integral observable properties via invertible neural networks
• Reconstructing the cosmological density and velocity fields from redshifted galaxy distributions using V-net

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