Machine learning has a long history in astronomy, but deep learning (DL) only got traction since arount 2016. Here I will list current DL effords:
The main field of ML applications in astrophysics is object classification. With source counts now ranging into the 107-108 for most surveys, machine learning is put to use to allow the classification of a large number of sources which would otherwise need an infeasible amount of manpower:
- Classifying galaxies according to their HI content - SVM perform best in specisifity and is hence used over a DNN
- Morphological classification of radio galaxies: Capsule Networks versus Convolutional Neural Networks *05/2019 - CNN show better performance than Capsule Networks, dropout provides more robusteness against image noise. Trained with LoTTs images.
- [Optical Transient Object Classification in Wide Field Smal