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Constraining power of wavelet vs power spectrum statistics for CMB lensing and weak lensing with learned binning
Phys. Rev. D 113, 063536 – Published 16 March, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/ccs8-b99y
Abstract
We present forecasts for constraints on the matter density () and the amplitude of matter density fluctuations at () from cosmic microwave background lensing convergence () maps and galaxy weak lensing convergence () maps. For auto statistics, we compare the angular power spectra (’s) to the wavelet scattering transform (WST) coefficients. For statistics, we compare the cross angular power spectra to wavelet phase harmonics (WPH). This work also serves as the first application of WST and WPH to these probes. For , we find that WST and ’s yield similar constraints in forecasts for all surveys considered in this work. When is crossed with projected from Euclid Data Release 2, we find that WPH outperforms cross-’s by factors between 2.2 and 3.4 for individual parameter constraints. To compare these different summary statistics, we develop a novel learned binning approach. This method compresses summary statistics while maintaining interpretability. We find this leads to improved constraints compared to more naive binning schemes for our wavelet-based statistics, but not for ’s. By learning the binning and measuring constraints on distinct datasets, our method is robust to overfitting by construction.
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