ACES MACE - A Machine Learning Approach to Chemistry Emulation for AGB Outflows

Learn about a groundbreaking machine learning approach to modeling chemical processes in astronomical outflows through this 21-minute research presentation. Explore how MACE (Machine learning Approach to Chemistry Emulation) combines autoencoder technology with latent ordinary differential equations to simulate complex chemical interactions in AGB star outflows. Discover how this innovative method achieves 26 times faster performance than classical approaches while maintaining accuracy in modeling wind-companion interactions and chemical activity. Follow along as the speaker demonstrates MACE's implementation in PyTorch and its ability to efficiently compute chemistry for multiple hydrodynamical particles simultaneously, representing a significant advancement in 3D hydro-chemical simulations of stellar environments.