ML in Astrophysical Turbulence I: Predicting Prestellar Cores in Magnetized Molecular Clouds using eXtreme Gradient Boosting

arXiv:2603.08513 · astro-ph.GA · Submitted 2026-03-09 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-03-09

Updated: 2026-10-21

Terminology

• Core — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Molecular Clouds — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fidelity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• XGBoost — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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