Cosmo3DFlow: Wavelet Flow Matching for Spatial-to-Spectral Compression in Reconstructing the Early Universe. Islam, M. K., Xia, Z., Goudjil, R., Wang, J., Farahi, A., & Fox, J. In Proceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining V2, Jeju Island, Korea, August, 2026. Association for Computing Machinery(ACM). arXiv:2602.10172 [astro-ph]
Cosmo3DFlow: Wavelet Flow Matching for Spatial-to-Spectral Compression in Reconstructing the Early Universe [link]Paper  doi  abstract   bibtex   
Reconstructing the early Universe from the evolved present-day Universe is a challenging and computationally demanding problem in modern astrophysics. We devise a novel generative framework, Cosmo3DFlow, designed to address dimensionality and sparsity, the critical bottlenecks inherent in current state-of-the-art methods for cosmological inference. By integrating 3D Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) with flow matching, we effectively represent high-dimensional cosmological structures. The Wavelet Transform addresses the “void problem” by translating spatial emptiness into spectral sparsity. It decouples high-frequency details from lowfrequency structures through spatial compression, and waveletspace velocity fields facilitate stable ordinary differential equation (ODE) solvers with large step sizes. Using large-scale cosmological 𝑁 -body simulations, at 1283 resolution, we achieve up to 50× faster sampling than diffusion models, combining a 10× reduction in integration steps with lower per-step computational cost from wavelet compression. Our results enable initial conditions to be sampled in seconds, compared to minutes for previous methods.
@inproceedings{islam_cosmo3dflow_2026,
	address = {Jeju Island, Korea},
	title = {{Cosmo3DFlow}: {Wavelet} {Flow} {Matching} for {Spatial}-to-{Spectral} {Compression} in {Reconstructing} the {Early} {Universe}},
	shorttitle = {{Cosmo3DFlow}},
	url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.10172},
	doi = {doi.org/10.1145/3770855.3818994},
	abstract = {Reconstructing the early Universe from the evolved present-day Universe is a challenging and computationally demanding problem in modern astrophysics. We devise a novel generative framework, Cosmo3DFlow, designed to address dimensionality and sparsity, the critical bottlenecks inherent in current state-of-the-art methods for cosmological inference. By integrating 3D Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) with flow matching, we effectively represent high-dimensional cosmological structures. The Wavelet Transform addresses the “void problem” by translating spatial emptiness into spectral sparsity. It decouples high-frequency details from lowfrequency structures through spatial compression, and waveletspace velocity fields facilitate stable ordinary differential equation (ODE) solvers with large step sizes. Using large-scale cosmological 𝑁 -body simulations, at 1283 resolution, we achieve up to 50× faster sampling than diffusion models, combining a 10× reduction in integration steps with lower per-step computational cost from wavelet compression. Our results enable initial conditions to be sampled in seconds, compared to minutes for previous methods.},
	language = {en},
	urldate = {2026-02-17},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 32nd {ACM} {SIGKDD} {Conference} on {Knowledge} {Discovery} and {Data} {Mining} {V2}},
	publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery(ACM)},
	author = {Islam, Md Khairul and Xia, Zeyu and Goudjil, Ryan and Wang, Jialu and Farahi, Arya and Fox, Judy},
	month = aug,
	year = {2026},
	note = {arXiv:2602.10172 [astro-ph]},
	keywords = {Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence, SYS: CosmicAI Contact Author, WG: Explainable},
}

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