Spherinator and HiPSter are tools that provide explorative access and visualization for multimodal data from extremely large astrophysical datasets, ranging from exascale cosmological simulations to multi-billion object observational galaxy surveys.
A variational autoencoder (VAE) will be trained using PyTorch Lightning to compress the structural data into a low-dimensional spherical latent space.
pip install spherinator
Funded by the European Union. This work has received funding from the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (JU) and Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Norway, and Spain under grant agreement No 101093441.
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This project is licensed under the Apache-2.0 License.
If you use Spherinator in your research, we provide a citation to use:
@article{Polsterer_Spherinator_and_HiPSter_2024,
author = {Polsterer, Kai Lars and Doser, Bernd and Fehlner, Andreas and Trujillo-Gomez, Sebastian},
title = {{Spherinator and HiPSter: Representation Learning for Unbiased Knowledge Discovery from Simulations}},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.03810},
doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2406.03810},
year = {2024}
}