The machine-learning methods
in the asteroids dynamics
Evgeny Smirnov, [email protected]
FB/Telegram: @smirik
Pulkovo observatory, Russia
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The list of numbered asteroids in the Solar
system has grown significantly in recent years.
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In asteroid dynamics, many problems
require numerical integration
of the equations of motion
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This approach is
computationally expensive
Therefore, fast, novel methods can be
useful to work with big data
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AI & ML methods have
become popular among the IT
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Google Flu case
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Twitter &
Earthquake
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ML in astronomy
• Outlier detection techniques for Exoplanets (Goel & Montgomery, 2015);
• Cosmological parameter estimation via neural network (Hobson et al.,
2014);
• Identification & classification of active galactic nuclei (Cavouti et al., 2014);
• Visualize & classify a large set of Type Ia Supernova spectra
(Sasdelli et al., 2016);
• Filtering out a large number of false-positive streak detections of near-
Earth asteroid candidates in the Palomar Transient Factory (Waszczak et
al., 2017);
• A Machine Learns to predict the stability of tightly packed planetary
systems (Tamayo et al. 2016);
• A lot of others…
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Types of ML
• Supervised learning: example inputs and
desired outputs are provided; the goal is
to create a map that binds inputs to
outputs.
• Unsupervised learning: no examples are
provided, the goal is to discover hidden
patterns.
• Reinforcement learning: the same as
supervised learning but instead of a
training set there is an environment that
provides the rewards based on the actions
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k-nearest neighbours
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Decision Tree
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Gradient Boosting over Decision Trees,
Logistic regression, Neural Networks …
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Smirnov, Markov, MNRAS, 2017
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MMR identification using ML
Smirnov E.A., Markov A.B. Identification of asteroids trapped inside three-
body mean motion resonances: a machine-learning approach. MNRAS.
469. 2017
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MMR identification using ML
Smirnov E.A., Markov A.B. Identification of asteroids trapped inside three-
body mean motion resonances: a machine-learning approach. MNRAS.
469. 2017
Recall 98,38 %
Precision 91,01 %
Accuracy 99,97 %
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Statistics
Family Koronis Hansa All
Recall 99,91 % 100,00 % 98,01 %
Precision 77,93 % 84,04 % 50,22 %
Accuracy 99,56 % 99,95 % 99,67 %