AI for Astrophysics - ISAPP 2026

Lecture material

Slides

Hands-on Colab notebooks (Focus on Foundation Models and Simulated-Based Inference)

1. Classification of Fermi blazars with the TabPFN Foundation Model

2. Galaxy type through the DINOv2 foundation model 

3. Simulation-based inference (SBI) for a toy gamma-ray spectrum (model-driven simulation)

4. SBI posterior classification of Fermi AGN (data-driven simulation)

5. SBI flare-parameter inference from a Fermi-LAT light curve (semi-empirical parametric Monte Carlo simulator)

6. SDSS photometric redshift with SBI / NPE (data-driven simulation)