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Towards Galaxy Foundation Models with Hybrid Contrastive Learning
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New astronomical tasks are often related to earlier tasks for which labels have already been collected. We adapt the contrastive framework BYOL to leverage those labels as a pretraining task while also enforcing augmentation invariance. For large-scale pretraining, we introduce GZ-Evo v0.1, a set of 96.5M volunteer responses for 552k galaxy images plus a further 1.34M comparable unlabelled galaxies. Most of the 206 GZ-Evo answers are unknown for any given galaxy, and so our pretraining task uses a Dirichlet loss that naturally handles unknown answers. GZ-Evo pretraining, with or without hybrid learning, improves on direct training even with plentiful downstream labels (+4% accuracy with 44k labels). Our hybrid pretraining/contrastive method further improves downstream accuracy vs. pretraining or contrastive learning, especially in the low-label transfer regime (+6% accuracy with 750 labels).
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