Deterministic denoising of long-duration gravitational-wave signal candidates with alpha -(de)blending

arXiv:2609.15308 · gr-qc, astro-ph.HE, astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.SR · Submitted 2026-09-14 · Read on arXiv

gr-qc, astro-ph.HE, astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.SR

Submitted: 2026-09-14

Updated: 2026-09-14

Comments: 23 pages, 12 figures. Submitted to Classical and Quantum Gravity

Code: https://github.com/Polgraw/TDFstat

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Diffusion Model — 12× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Diffusion Models — 11× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Consistency — 5× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Generative Model — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Clustering — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Diffusion Process — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Flow Matching — 2× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Generative Modeling — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Generative Models — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Latent Diffusion Model — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Latent Diffusion Models — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Algorithmic Improvements — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Hilbert Space — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Latent Space — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Learned Perceptual Image Patch Similarity — 1× in this paper
• Loss Function — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Score Function — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Solar System Barycenter — 1× in this paper
• alpha — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode

Sources

• Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
• GWTC-5.0: An Introduction to Version 5.0 of the Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog
• Search for continuous gravitational waves from known pulsars in the first part of the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observing run
• Searches for Continuous Gravitational Waves from Supernova Remnants in the first part of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Fourth Observing run
• All-sky Searches for Continuous Gravitational Waves from Isolated Neutron Stars in the Data from the First Part of the Fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observing Run
• Data analysis of gravitational-wave signals from spinning neutron stars. I. The signal and its detection
• Banks of templates for all-sky narrow-band searches of gravitational waves from spinning neutron stars
• Deep Unsupervised Learning using Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics
• Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models
• An Overview of Diffusion Models: Applications, Guided Generation, Statistical Rates and Optimization
• Diffusion Models: A Comprehensive Survey of Methods and Applications
• A Survey on Generative Diffusion Model
• Classifier-Free Diffusion Guidance
• Flow Matching for Generative Modeling
• One weird trick for parallelizing convolutional neural networks
• Adam: A Method for Stochastic Optimization

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