CNN+FoF: application of deep learning to the identification of dark matter haloes

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2026
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Abstract
Abstract We present a deep-learning-based approach for identifying dark matter haloes in cosmological N-body simulations. Our framework consists of a volumetric Convolutional Neural Network to classify individual simulation particles as either halo or non-halo members, followed by a highly optimised and parallelised Friends-of-Friends clustering algorithm that groups the classified halo members into distinct haloes. The training data comprise simulations generated using GADGET-4, with labels obtained with the ROCKSTAR halo finder. Our models incorporate two main halo mass definitions, M200b and Mvir, with similar performance. For haloes defined by the ROCKSTAR M200b criterion, the classification network demonstrated stable performance across multiple simulation resolutions. For the highest resolution, it achieved over 98% across all primary performance metrics when identifying halo particles. Furthermore, the FoF algorithm yielded halo catalogues with a purity generally exceeding 99% and a stable completeness of 94% for masses above 5 × 1011 M⊙. Our pipeline recovered the centre-of-mass positions, velocities and halo masses with high fidelity, yielding a halo mass function consistent to within 5% of the reference while faithfully reconstructing the internal density profiles. The primary objective of this study is to offer a faster and scalable alternative to conventional halo finders, achieving a speed-up of approximately one order of magnitude relative to ROCKSTAR. While traditional N-body simulations remain dominated by the time required to solve gravitational dynamics, this post-processing acceleration becomes essential when coupled with fast field-level emulators, offering a promising pathway towards efficient, end-to-end forward modelling in modern simulation-based inference.
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Authors Soumadeep Maiti, Carlos M. Correa, Andrea Fiorilli, Andrés N. Ruiz, Dante Javier Paz, Alejandro Pérez Fernández, Ariel G. Sánchez
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Journal monthly notices of the royal astronomical society
Year 2026
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10.1093/mnras/stag1840
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https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stag1840
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