Abstract
Deep generative models, such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) or Variational Autoencoders (VAs) have been demonstrated to produce images of high visual quality. However, the existing hardware on which these models are trained severely limits the size of the images that can be generated. The rapid growth of high dimensional data in many fields of science therefore poses a significant challenge for generative models. In cosmology, the large-scale, three-dimensional matter distribution, modeled with N-body simulations, plays a crucial role in understanding the evolution of structures in the universe. As these simulations are computationally very expensive, GANs have recently generated interest as a possible method to emulate these datasets, but they have been, so far, mostly limited to two dimensional data. In this work, we introduce a new benchmark for the generation of three dimensional N-body simulations, in order to stimulate new ideas in the machine learning community and move closer to the practical use of generative models in cosmology. As a first benchmark result, we propose a scalable GAN approach for training a generator of N-body three-dimensional cubes. Our technique relies on two key building blocks, (i) splitting the generation of the high-dimensional data into smaller parts, and (ii) using a multi-scale approach that efficiently captures global image features that might otherwise be lost in the splitting process. We evaluate the performance of our model for the generation of N-body samples using various statistical measures commonly used in cosmology. Our results show that the proposed model produces samples of high visual quality, although the statistical analysis reveals that capturing rare features in the data poses significant problems for the generative models. We make the data, quality evaluation routines, and the proposed GAN architecture publicly available at https://github.com/nperraud/3DcosmoGAN.
Highlights
The recent advances in the field of deep learning have initiated a new era for generative models
While the obtained statistical accuracy is currently insufficient for a real cosmological use case, we achieve two goals: (i) we demonstrate that the project is tractable by Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) architectures, and (ii) we provide a framework for evaluating the performance of new algorithms in the future
4.1 Scale by scale analysis of the pipeline In the following, we describe our model that relies on three different GANs, namely M1, M2 and M3, to generate samples at distinct resolutions
Summary
The recent advances in the field of deep learning have initiated a new era for generative models. In the field of cosmology, high-resolution simulations of matter distribution. N -body simulations represent the matter in a cosmological volume, typically between 0.1–10 Gpc, as a set of particles, typically between 1003 to 20003. The particles are displaced over time according to the laws of gravity, properties of dark energy, and other physical effects included in the simulations. During this evolution, the field is becoming increasingly non-Gaussian, and displays characteristic features, such as halos, filaments, sheets, and voids (Bond et al 1996; Dietrich et al 2012)
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